VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)
Disabling and Enabling Multipathing for Specific Devices
Chapter 3124
8 List currently suppressed/non-multipathed devices
? Display help about menu
?? 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 ag
ain.
As a result of this operation, all paths through the specified controller wi
ll be made visible to VxVM again.
VxVM INFO V-5-2-1264 You can specify a controller name at the prompt. A cont
roller name is of the form c#, example c3, c11 etc. Enter ’all’ to exclude a
ll 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 VxV
M again.
VxVM INFO V-5-2-1265 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:ProductI
D combination visible to VxVM again.