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

Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)
Displaying Multipaths to a VM Disk
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numpaths: 2
c1t0d3 state=enabled type=secondary
c4t1d3 state=disabled type=primary
In the Multipathing information section of this output, the numpaths
line shows that there are 2 paths to the device, and the following two
lines show that the path to has failed (state=disabled).
The type field is shown for disks on active/passive type disk arrays such
as Nike, DG Clariion, and Hitachi DF350. This field indicates the
primary and secondary paths to the disk.
The type field is not displayed for disks on active/active type disk arrays.
Such arrays have no concept of primary and secondary paths.