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hwmgr -view devices output after dsfmgr -m

All;

Recently I created a couple of new vdisks on our EVA5000 and presented them to our 4 node GS1280 cluster running Tru64 5.1b PK4. I used hwmgr to refresh the components and then saw the 2 new devices in the "hwmgr -v d" output. All looked as it should. I then renamed the device special files via "dsfmgr -m <old device> <new device>. The normal messages appeared on the screen and the command completed successfully. The <old device> files no longer exist in /dev/disk and the <new device> files exist in /dev/disk. However, "hwmgr -v d" does not report the correct info. Here's a snippet of the output from the "hwmgr -v d" command:

 1345: /dev/disk/dsk12717c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12717
 1865: /dev/disk/dsk12801c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12801
 1876: /dev/disk/dsk12900c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12900
 2113: /dev/disk/dsk12720c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12720
 2114: /dev/disk/dsk12721c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12721
 3249: dsk22410             COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12722
 3250: dsk22411             COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12723
 3251: /dev/disk/dsk22412c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12582
 3252: /dev/disk/dsk22413c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12583

the 2 problem disks are dsk22410 and dsk22411. When I first created and presented the disks they looked like all the others above in that the output showed /dev/disk/dsk22410 and /dev/disk/dsk22411. In other words, it looked like:

 3249: /dev/disk/dsk22410c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12722
 3250: /dev/disk/dsk22411c  COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12723

Then I issued the following 2 commands:

        # dsfmgr -m dsk22410 dsk12722
        # dsfmgr -m dsk22411 dsk12723

after which the "hwmgr -v d" output changed to:

 3249: dsk22410             COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12722
 3250: dsk22411             COMPAQ   HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=12723

I'm guessing that perhaps the hwmgr database is confused. Would verifying the dsfmgr database (dsfmgr -v) be worthwhile or applicable? I presume that a reboot would resolve this issue but was wondering if there was some way short of that to get hwmgr to reflect the correct info.

TIA.




David
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