VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating and Administering Plexes
Changing Plex Attributes
Chapter 6224
Changing Plex Attributes
CAUTION Change plex attributes with extreme care.
The vxedit command changes the attributes of plexes and other volume
Manager objects. To change plex attributes, use the following command:
# vxedit set attribute=value ... plex
Plex fields that can be changed using the vxedit command include:
• name
• putiln
• tutiln
• comment
The putiln field attributes are maintained on reboot; tutiln fields are
temporary and are not retained on reboot. VxVM sets the putil0 and
tutil0 utility fields. Other VERITAS products, such as the VERITAS
Enterprise Administrator (VEA), set the putil1 and tutil1 fields. The
putil2 and tutil2 are available for you to use for site-specific purposes.
The following example command sets the comment field, and also sets
tutil2 to indicate that the subdisk is in use:
# vxedit set comment=”plex comment” tutil2=”u” vol01-02
To prevent a particular plex from being associated with a volume, set the
putil0 field to a non-null string, as shown in the following command:
# vxedit set putil0=”DO-NOT-USE” vol01-02
See the vxedit(1M) manual page for more information about using the
vxedit command to change the attribute fields of VxVM objects