Below examples will  help you to understand Veritas Dynamic Multipathing administration using vxdmpadm. To display the usage message for all vxdmpadm commands, enter: # vxdmpadm help To obtain a usage message for listctlr, use the command: # vxdmpadm help listctlr  

The majority of Veritas Volume Manager utilities use a common set of exit codes, which can be used by shell scripts or other types of programs to react to specific problems detected by the utilities. The number for each distinct exit code is described below.

The following example output shows one volume, mkting, as being unstartable: # vxinfo [-g diskgroup] [volume …]  home   fsgen Started mkting fsgen Unstartable src fsgen Started rootvol root Started swapvol swap Started

To initialize a disk for regular use, enter: # /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i c2t1d0 or if enclosure-based naming is in use: # /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i sena1_4  

The vxdctl utility manages aspects of the state of the volume configuration daemon, vxconfigd, sets the default disk group for the system, and also sets up the boot disk group if the root disk is under Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) control. The volboot file forms a...

::: Simple/Nopriv Disks in the Boot Disk Group If simple or nopriv disks in the boot disk group, bootdg, go into the “error” state, use the following procedure: 1. Use the vxdiskadm command to change back to the c#t#d#s# based naming scheme. 2. Either shut down...

You can enable direct vxconfigd logging with the -x log argument, and turn it off with the -x nolog argument. Logging is disabled by default. If direct logging is enabled, the default log file is /var/vxvm/vxconfigd.log. This option can be used in conjunction with syslog |...