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Displaying recovery option values

The following example shows the vxdmpadm getattr command being used to display the recoveryoption option values that are set on an enclosure.

# vxdmpadm getattr enclosure HDS9500-ALUA0 recoveryoption

ENCLR-NAME RECOVERY-OPTION DEFAULT[VAL] CURRENT[VAL]

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HDS9500-ALUA0 Throttle Timebound[10] Queuedepth[60]

HDS9500-ALUA0 Error-Retry Fixed-Retry[5] Timebound[20]

This shows the default and current policy options and their values.

Recovery options summarizes the possible recovery option settings.

Recovery options

Recovery option

Possible settings

Description

Error-Retry settings:

recoveryoption=fixedretry



recoveryoption=timebound 



Fixed-Retry (retrycount)



Timebound (iotimeout) 



DMP retries a failed I/O request for the specified number of times if I/O fails.

DMP retries a failed I/O request after the specified time in seconds if I/O fails. 

Throttle settings:

recoveryoption=nothrottle

recoveryoption=throttle 



None

Queuedepth (queuedepth)




Timebound (iotimeout) 



Not applicable

DMP throttles the path if the specified number of queued I/O requests is exceeded.

DMP throttles the path if an I/O request does not return within the specified time in seconds.