HP StorageWorks Command View XP Advanced Edition Device Manager Agent Installation and Configuration Guide (December 2005)
Device Manager Agent Operations 43
3-3-1 Starting, Stopping, and Checking the hdvmagt Service or the
hdvmagt Daemon Process
The following describes how to start and stop the service or the daemon process for the Device
Manager agent, and how to confirm the operating status of each. Note that you must be a super user
or a member of the Administrators group to perform the operations described below.
When you add or change an HBA on a host that runs the Device Manager agent, or when a HBA
driver is installed after installing the Device Manager agent, perform the following:
Confirming the operating status of the service or daemon process:
• Windows
®
systems:
• Open the Services window according to the following procedures and confirm the status of
the hdvmagt service.
• In Windows
®
2000 and Windows Server™ 2003, open the Services window by choosing
Management Tools, and then Services.
• Solaris™, AIX
®
, HP-UX, and Linux
®
systems:
• Run the # ps -e | grep hdvmagt command from the command line to confirm that the
hdvmagt daemon process exists.
Starting the service or daemon process:
• Windows
®
systems:
• Open the Services window, and then start the hdvmagt service.
• Solaris™, HP-UX, and Linux
®
systems:
• Run the # /opt/HDVM/bin/hdvmagt command from the command line.
• AIX
®
systems:
• Run the # /usr/HDVM/bin/hdvmagt
command from the command line.
Stopping the service or daemon process:
• Windows
®
systems:
• Open the Services window, and then stop the hdvmagt service.
• Solaris™, HP-UX, and Linux
®
systems:
• Run the # /opt/HDVM/bin/stop_hdvmagt
command from the command line to stop
the hdvmagt daemon process.
• AIX
®
systems:
• Run the # /usr/HDVM/bin/stop_hdvmagt
command from the command line to stop
the hdvmagt daemon process.
3-3-2 Restarting the hdvmagt Service or hdvmagt Daemon Process
The service or daemon process must be restarted in the following cases:
• When the IP address of a host in which the Device Manager agent is installed is changed.
• When the Device Manager agent was installed while the Device Manager server to be notified
was not running.
• When the hdvmagt service was started while the Device Manager server to be notified was not
running.
• When a host in which Device Manager is running is deleted in the Host View of Web Client GUI.
• When the contents of the property files (logger.properties, mime.properties, and
server.properties) of the Device Manager agent were modified.
• When RAID Manager is installed or uninstalled.
• When the hdvmagt_account command execution was interrupted.
• When the hdvmagt_account command was executed in Windows
®
.