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

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...

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 |...

Disk Group Configuration Backup : Back up the configuration of the mydg disk group to the directory /dgbackup/mydg: # vxconfigbackup -l /dgbackup/mydg mydg The vxconfigbackupd daemon automatically backs up a disk group’s new configuration to the default backup directory whenever the configuration is changed. The vxconfigbackup...

To create a  volume where two enclosures are connected to a host. The first through controllers c1, c2 and the second through controllers c3, c4. The following can be used: # vxassist make vol1 1024 !ctlr:c1 results in disks from the first enclosure being excluded from the...