5

PowerPath Administration on Solaris

Arguments

powercf scans HBAs for single-ported and multiported storage

 

system logical devices and compares those logical devices with

 

PowerPath device entries in emcp.conf.

 

-q

Runs powercf in quiet mode.

powercf -qupdates the emcp.conf file by removing PowerPath devices not found in the HBA scan and adding new PowerPath devices that were found. It saves a primary and an alternate path to each PowerPath device.

powercf -qruns automatically during system boot.

-Z

Configures an SRDF-enabled server to be bootable from an R2 mirror of a Symmetrix-based emcpower boot disk by a remote host.

powercf -Zshould be run manually whenever such a server's Symmetrix volume configuration changes due to the addition or deletion of volumes.

Error Messages

PowerPath reports any errors, diagnostic messages, and failover recovery messages to the system console and to the file /var/adm/messages. Refer to the PowerPath Product Guide for a complete list of PowerPath error messages.

5-18

PowerPath for UNIX Installation and Administration Guide

 

 

Page 90
Image 90
EMC 300-000-978 REV A03 manual Arguments, PowerPath device entries in emcp.conf