Installation and Reference Guide HP StorageWorks Secure Path 3.0F Service Pack 4 for HP-UX 11i v1.0 and 11i v2.0 (5697-8001, March 2009)

Path management behavior
Table 2 provides the summary of path management behavior for Secure Path.
Table 2 Path management behavior summary of Secure Path
Behavior or actionFeature
Chooses the preferred path to the controller to which the LUN is online.
Marks the preferred path active. If no path is marked preferred, selects one and makes
it the active path.
Startup
Marks the active path as failed.
Redirects I/O through available path.
If there are no available paths, failover occurs to a standby path on the other controller.
Active path failure
Performs path verification.
Marks failed path as failed.
Available or standby
path failure
Marks the path available or standby, depending on which controller has the online
device.
If auto-failback is enabled and the path was the active path prior to the path failure, it
makes the path the active path.
Path repaired
You can use the spmgr utility to customize the management of your configuration. See Managing
Secure Path for Active-Passive disk arrays for more information on spmgr customization.
Secure Path for Active-Passive disk arrays hardware setup
This section provides the following Secure Path hardware setup information:
• Hardware setup overview
• Installing a new Secure Path configuration
• Configuring switches
• Configuring the HSG80-based StorageWorks array
• Configuring optional HSG80-based array features
• Configuring the HSV100/110-based StorageWorks array
• System configuration
• Configuring SCSI-3 for HSG80-based systems
• What to do if ioscan does not see all paths to the array
Hardware setup overview
The following procedure outlines the hardware setup:
1. Prior to setting up your hardware, perform the following verifications:
• All users have logged off the server.
• All array file systems have been backed up and unmounted.
• All volume groups have been exported.
2. Perform one of the following procedures:
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