HP P9000 RAID Manager Reference Guide (T1610-96037, October 2011)

1 Overview of commands
NOTE: The raidcom commands described in this guide are supported only on the P9000 disk
arrays. All other commands are supported on both the P9000 and the XP24000/XP20000,
XP12000/XP10000, SVS200, and XP1024/XP128 disk arrays.
The GUI illustrations in this guide were created using a Windows computer with the Internet Explorer
browser. Actual windows may differ depending on the operating system and browser used. GUI
contents also vary with licensed program products, storage system models, and firmware versions.
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
DescriptionCommand
Used for both maintenance and troubleshooting on Continuous Access Synchronous. The
horcctl command allows you to change and display the internal trace control parameters
horcctl
(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).horcmshutdown
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).
horcmstart
Scripted command for executing multiple HORC operation commands combined. It checks
the volume attribute (optionally specified) and decides a takeover action. The horctakeoff
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.
Scripted command for executing multiple Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous
Access Journal takeover operations. It checks the specified volume’s or group’s attributes
horctakeover
12 Overview of commands