Required Settings For Configuration Files; Preparing The Configuration Files On Each Site - HP XP P9500 Software User's Manual

Purpose
Creating procedure in the ISPF panel
Created for:
Copy group definition file
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Naming convention
Purpose
Creating procedure in the ISPF panel
Created for:
NOTE: You can also generate a copy group definition file by using CSV files. For details on the copy group definition
file generation function that uses CSV files, see
(page 81).
For details about the XML file dataset format, see the HP StorageWorks P9000 for Business
Continuity Manager Software Reference Guide.

Required settings for configuration files

This section describes the ISPF panel settings that are required to create configuration files. You
must set the following information from the ISPF panel:
Enter information in the following fields in the Discover/Define Configuration ISPF panel (accessed
by selecting 3 Discover/Define Configuration from the Main Menu):
Primary site device number
Secondary site device number
Copy types of copy groups (such as BC Z, Cnt Ac-S Z, Cnt Ac-A, or Cnt Ac-J Z)
Detailed information settings on the copy pairs of the primary site and other sites
Storage system routing information and command device settings
Logical and physical path settings
The settings the user enters from the ISPF panel are written into configuration files (the XML files).
Multiple XML files are created for different types of settings.

Preparing the configuration files on each site

For 2DC configurations and 3DC configurations, you need to prepare, at each site, configuration
files for one or more other sites in order to enable operations to continue at each site when a
disaster occurs. For details on how to prepare the configuration files, see
(page 126).
Business Continuity Manager creates this file for the first
Device Address Domain of the route when the route list
definition has completed.
Used to register a command device in the storage system
and to use the Remote DKC control function and Cnt-Ac S
consistency preservation function.
This file is created when the route list definition file is
created. See "Defining a route list" (page
Each first Device Address Domain of a route
Description
prefix.GRP.copy-group-id
Required to operate a copy group.
Required for all copy types and configurations
See "Defining a copy group" (page 124)
Each copy group
"Copy Group Definition File Generation Function Using CSV Files"
457).
"Configuration Definitions"
Creating configuration files 105