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The Offline Path Statuses.......................................................................2-14
Correspondence between VMware vSphere and HDLM path statuses.........2-15
Status Transitions of a Path....................................................................2-15
Monitoring Intermittent Errors................................................................................2-16
Checking Intermittent Errors............................................................................2-16
Setting Up Intermittent Error Monitoring...........................................................2-16
Intermittent Error Monitoring Actions...............................................................2-17
When an Intermittent Error Occurs.........................................................2-17
When an Intermittent Error Does Not Occur............................................2-18
When the Conditions for an Intermittent Error Are Changed During Error
Monitoring............................................................................................2-18
When a User Changes the Intermittent Error Information..................................2-19
Detecting Errors by Using Path Health Checking......................................................2-21
Error Management................................................................................................2-21
Types of Collected Logs...................................................................................2-22
Collecting Error Information Using the Utility for Collecting HDLM Error Information
(DLMgetras)...................................................................................................2-23
Collecting Audit Log Data.......................................................................................2-23
Categories and Audit Events that HDLM Can Output to the Audit Log.................2-25
Requirements for Outputting Audit Log Data.....................................................2-26
Destination and Filtering of Audit Log Data.......................................................2-27
Audit Log Data Formats...................................................................................2-27
3 Creating an HDLM Environment............................................................. 3-1
HDLM System Requirements....................................................................................3-2
Hosts and OSs Supported by HDLM................................................................... 3-2
Host OS support......................................................................................3-2
Remote management client OS support.................................................... 3-2
Storage Systems Supported by HDLM................................................................ 3-2
Memory and Disk Capacity Requirements........................................................... 3-3
Memory Requirements.............................................................................3-3
Disk Requirements.................................................................................. 3-3
Number of Paths Supported in HDLM................................................................. 3-3
Flow for Creating an HDLM Environment.................................................................. 3-4
HDLM Installation Types..........................................................................................3-4
Notes on Creating an HDLM Environment................................................................. 3-4
Installing HDLM......................................................................................................3-5
Performing a New Installation of HDLM.............................................................. 3-5
New installation on remote management client..........................................3-6
Unattended installation on remote management client............................... 3-7
New installation on host...........................................................................3-7
Performing a Re-installation of HDLM.................................................................3-8
Checking the Path Configuration.............................................................................. 3-8
Setting Up HDLM....................................................................................................3-9
Checking the Current Settings........................................................................... 3-9
Setting Up the HDLM Functions........................................................................3-10
Setting Up Load Balancing.....................................................................3-10
Setting Up Intermittent Error Monitoring.................................................3-11
Setting Up Audit Log Data Collection.......................................................3-11
Checking the Updated Settings........................................................................3-12
Setting Up Integrated Traces.................................................................................3-13
Uninstalling HDLM.................................................................................................3-15
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