VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)
Disabling and Enabling Multipathing for Specific Devices
Chapter 3116
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menusSelect an operation to perform:
• Select option 1 to make all paths through a specified controller
visible to VxVM.
Re-include controllers in VxVM
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/IncludeDevices/CTLR-VXVM
Use this operation to make all paths through a controller visible to VxVM again.
As a result of this operation, all paths through the specified controller will be
made visible to VxVM again.
You can specify a controller name at the prompt. A controller name is of the form
c#, example c3, c11 etc. Enter ’all’ to exclude all paths on all the controllers
on the host. To see the list of controllers on the system, type ’list’.
Enter a controller name:[<ctlr-name>,all,list,list-exclude,q,?]
• Select option 2 to make specified paths visible to VxVM.
Re-include paths in VxVM
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/IncludeDevices/PATH-VXVM
Use this operation to make one or more paths visible to VxVM again.
As a result of this operation,the specified paths will become visible to VxVM
again.
You can specify a pathname or a pattern at the prompt. Here are some path
selection examples:
all: all paths
c3t4d2: a single path
list: list all paths on the system
Enter a pathname or pattern :[<pattern>,all,list,list-exclude,q,?]
• Select option 3 to make disks visible to VxVM that match a specified
Vendor ID and Product ID.
Make VID:PID visible to VxVM
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/IncludeDevices/VIDPID-VXVM
Use this operation to make all disks returning a specified VendorID:ProductID