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VXVOLADMTASK (1M)
Maintenance Commands

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NAME

vxvoladmtask - administer ISP tasks

SYNOPSIS

vxvoladmtask abort task_tag

vxvoladmtask clear [task_tag]

vxvoladmtask list

vxvoladmtask [-t time] [-n] monitor task_tag

vxvoladmtask set task_tag=new_task_tag

DESCRIPTION

The vxvoladmtask utility can be used to perform basic administrative operations on tasks that have been created by the Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). You can use the command to list ISP tasks, to monitor their states, and if required, to cancel tasks.

KEYWORDS

abort
Cancels the specified ISP task.
clear
Removes all ISP task objects from the specified task. If no task is specified, this keyword clears all task objects for tasks that have a status of CANCELLED, DONE or FAILED.
help
Displays information on vxvoladmtask usage.
list
Lists all ISP tasks.
monitor
Monitors the specified ISP task.
set
Renames the tag for an ISP task.

OPTIONS

-n
Monitors ISP tasks that are newly registered while the program is running, as well as the specified ISP tasks. This option applies only to the monitor keyword.
-t time
Exits monitoring after time seconds. This option applies only to the monitor keyword.

EXAMPLES

List all ISP tasks: 


vxvoladmtask list

Remove the ISP task object with the tag, Task1: 



vxvoladmtask clear Task1

Cancel the allocator task object with the tag, Task2: 



vxvoladmtask abort Task2

EXIT STATUS

The vxvoladmtask utility exits with a non-zero status if the attempted operation fails. A non-zero exit code is not a complete indicator of the problems encountered, but rather denotes the first condition that prevented further execution of the utility.

SEE ALSO

vxvoladm(1M), vxpool(1M), vxtemplate(1M), vxusertemplate(1M)

Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
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