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NAME

     ses — SCSI Environmental Services driver

SYNOPSIS

     device ses

DESCRIPTION

     The ses driver provides support for all SCSI devices of the environmental services class
     that are attached to the system through a supported SCSI Host Adapter, as well as emulated
     support for SAF-TE (SCSI Accessible Fault Tolerant Enclosures).  The environmental services
     class generally are enclosure devices that provide environmental information such as number
     of power supplies (and state), temperature, device slots, and so on.

     A SCSI Host adapter must also be separately configured into the system before a SCSI
     Environmental Services device can be configured.

KERNEL CONFIGURATION

     It is only necessary to explicitly configure one ses device; data structures are dynamically
     allocated as devices are found on the SCSI bus.

     A separate option, SES_ENABLE_PASSTHROUGH, may be specified to allow the ses driver to
     perform functions on devices of other classes that claim to also support ses functionality.

IOCTLS

     The following ioctl(2) calls apply to ses devices.  They are defined in the header file
     <cam/scsi/scsi_ses.h> (q.v.).

     SESIOC_GETNOBJ     Used to find out how many ses objects are driven by this particular
                        device instance.

     SESIOC_GETOBJMAP   Read, from the kernel, an array of SES objects which contains the object
                        identifier, which subenclosure it is in, and the ses type of the object.

     SESIOC_GETENCSTAT  Get the overall enclosure status.

     SESIOC_SETENCSTAT  Set the overall enclosure status.

     SESIOC_GETOBJSTAT  Get the status of a particular object.

     SESIOC_SETOBJSTAT  Set the status of a particular object.

     SESIOC_GETTEXT     Get the associated help text for an object (not yet implemented).  ses
                        devices often have descriptive text for an object which can tell you
                        things like location (e.g., "left power supply").

     SESIOC_INIT        Initialize the enclosure.

EXAMPLE USAGE

     The files contained in <usr/share/examples/ses> show simple mechanisms for how to use these
     interfaces, as well as a very stupid simple monitoring daemon.

FILES

     /dev/sesN      The Nth SES device.

DIAGNOSTICS

     When the kernel is configured with DEBUG enabled, the first open to an SES device will spit
     out overall enclosure parameters to the console.

HISTORY

     The ses driver was written for the CAM SCSI subsystem by Matthew Jacob.  This is a
     functional equivalent of a similar driver available in Solaris, Release 7.