Administering DMP using vxdmpadm

The vxdmpadm utility is a command line administrative interface to DMP.

You can use the vxdmpadm utility to perform the following tasks:

The following sections cover these tasks in detail along with sample output.

See the vxdmpadm(1M) manual page.

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Retrieving information about a DMP node

Displaying consolidated information about the DMP nodes

Displaying the members of a LUN group

Displaying paths controlled by a DMP node, controller, enclosure, or array port

Displaying information about controllers

Displaying information about enclosures

Displaying information about array ports

Displaying DMP path information for devices under third-party driver control

Displaying extended device attributes

Suppressing or including devices from VxVM control

Gathering and displaying DMP I/O statistics

Setting the attributes of the paths to an enclosure

Displaying the path redundancy level of a device or enclosure under DMP control

Specifying the minimum number of active paths for a device or enclosure under DMP control

Specifying the DMP I/O policy

Disabling I/O for paths, controllers or array ports

Renaming an enclosure

Configuring DMP's response to I/O failures

Configuring the DMP I/O throttling mechanism

Configuring DMP path restoration policies

Configuring array policy modules

DMP tunable parameters