An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The host device comprises a set of input-output queues and a multi-path input-output driver configured to select input-output operations from the set of input-output queues for delivery to the storage system over the network. The multi-path input-output driver is further configured to receive per-host path change information from the storage system indicating a change in at least one path from the host device to the storage system, to automatically initiate a path discovery scan in the host device based at least in part on the received per-host path change information, and to add one or more new paths identified in the path discovery scan to a set of active paths for the host device. The per-host path change information received from the storage system may comprise a value of a path change counter maintained by the storage system for the host device.