Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Installation Guide (5900-1510, April 2011)

Starting and enabling the configuration daemon
The VxVM configuration daemon (vxconfigd) maintains VxVM disk and disk
group configurations. The vxconfigd communicates configuration changes to
the kernel and modifies configuration information stored on disk.
Startup scripts usually invoke vxconfigd at system boot time. The vxconfigd
daemon must be running for VxVM to operate properly.
The following procedures describe how to check that vxconfigd is started, whether
it is enabled or disabled, how to start it manually, or how to enable it as required.
To determine whether vxconfigd is enabled, use the following command:
# vxdctl mode
The following message indicates that the vxconfigd daemon is running and
enabled:
mode: enabled
This message indicates that vxconfigd is not running:
mode: not-running
This message indicates that vxconfigd is running, but not enabled:
mode: disabled
To start the vxconfigd daemon, enter the following command:
# vxconfigd
To enable the volume daemon, enter the following command:
# vxdctl enable
Once started, vxconfigd automatically becomes a background process.
By default, vxconfigd writes error messages to the console. However, you can
configure it to write errors to a log file. For more information, see the
vxconfigd(1M) and vxdctl(1M) manual pages.
Starting the volume I/O daemon
The volume I/O daemon (vxiod) provides extended I/O operations without blocking
calling processes. Several vxiod daemons are usually started at system boot time
after initial installation, and they should be running at all times. The procedure
Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System
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