Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

203Creating and administering disk groups

Using vxnotify to monitor configuration changes

You can use the vxnotify utility to display events relating to disk and configuration

changes that are managed by the

vxconfigd configuration daemon. If vxnotify is

running on a system where the VxVM clustering feature is active, it displays events that

are related to changes in the cluster state of the system on which it is running. The

vxnotify utility displays the requested event types until you kill it, until it has received a

specified number of events, or until a specified period of time has elapsed.

Examples of configuration events that can be detected include disabling and enabling of

controllers, paths and DMP nodes, RAID-5 volumes entering degraded mode, detachment

of disks, plexes and volumes, and nodes joining and leaving a cluster.

For example, the following

vxnotify command displays information about all disk, plex,

and volume detachments as they occur:

# vxnotify -f

The following command provides information about cluster configuration changes,

including the import and deport of shared disk groups:

# vxnotify -s -i

For more information about the vxnotify utility, and the types of configuration events

that it can report, see the

vxnotify(1M) manual page.