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

Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)
Administering DMP Using vxdmpadm
Chapter 3128
NOTE To change the interval or policy, you must first stop the restore daemon,
and then restart it with new attributes.
See the vxdmpadm(1M) manual page for more information about DMP
restore policies.
Stopping the DMP Restore Daemon
Use the following command to stop the DMP restore daemon:
# vxdmpadm stop restore
NOTE Automatic path failback stops if the restore daemon is stopped.
Displaying the Status of the DMP Restore Daemon
Use the following command to display the status of the automatic path
restoration daemon, its polling interval, and the policy that it uses to
check the condition of paths:
# vxdmpadm stat restored
This produces output such as the following:
The number of daemons running : 1
The interval of daemon: 300
The policy of daemon: check_disabled
Displaying Information About the DMP Error
Daemons
To display the number of error daemons that are running, use the
following command:
# vxdmpadm stat errord