Overview Of Commands; Command Summary - HP StorageWorks P9000 - Disk Arrays Reference Manual

1 Overview of commands

Unless otherwise specified, the term P9000 in this guide refers to the following disk array:
P9500 Disk Array
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This chapter provides the overview for the RAID Manager commands.

Command summary

RAID Manager enables you to perform operations on RAID storage systems by issuing commands
from the command line. This document describes and provides the specifications for the following
commands.
Replication commands
Commands for the replication operation that can be executed from RAID Manager.
Subcommands
There are two types of subcommands:
Environment variable subcommands: Set or cancel an environment variable within a RAID
◦
Manager command.
◦ Windows subcommands: Executed as options of a RAID Manager command.
Command tools
Command tools for RAID Manager.
Configuration setting commands
Commands for the configuration setting (provisioning operation) that can be executed from
RAID Manager.
The following table describes the replication commands:
Table 1 Replication commands
Command
horcctl
horcmshutdown
horcmstart
horctakeoff
12 Overview of commands
Description
Used for both maintenance and troubleshooting on Continuous Access Synchronous. The
horcctl command allows you to change and display the internal trace control parameters
(For example, level, type, buffer size) of the HORC Manager and/or Continuous Access
Synchronous commands. If a new value is not specified to a parameter, the trace control
parameter that is specified currently is displayed.
Shell script for stopping the HORCM application (/etc/horcmgr).
Shell script that starts the HORCM application (/etc/horcmgr). This shell script can also set
the environment variables for HORCM as needed (For example, HORCM_CONF,
HORCM_LOG, HORCM_LOGS).
Scripted command for executing multiple HORC operation commands combined. It checks
the volume attribute (optionally specified) and decides a takeover action. The horctakeoff
operation is defined to change from 3DC multi-target to 3DC multi-hop with the state of
running APP, after that the horctakeover command can configure 3DC multi-target on the
remote site without stopping the application. The granularity of either a logical volume or
volume group can be specified with this command.