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

438 Using Storage Expert
Running Storage Expert
vxse_dg1 PASS:
Disk group (mydg) okay amount of disks in this disk group (4)
This indicates that the specified disk group (mydg) met the conditions specified in the
rule. See “Rule result types” on page 438 for a list of the possible result types.
Note: You can set Storage Expert to run as a cron job to notify administrators and
automatically archive reports.
Rule result types
Running a rule generates output that shows the status of the objects that have been
examined against the rule:
INFO Information about the specified object; for example “RAID-5 does not
have a log.”
PASS The object met the conditions of the rule.
VIOLATION The object did not meet the conditions of the rule.
Setting rule attributes
You can set attributes in the following ways:
■ Enter an attribute on the command line, for example:
# vxse_drl2 -g mydg run large_mirror_size=30m
■ Create your own defaults file, and specify that file on the command line:
# vxse_drl2 -d mydefaultsfile run
Lines in this file contain attribute values definitions for a rule in this format:
rule_name,attribute=value
For example, the following entry defines a value of 20 gigabytes for the attribute
large_mirror_size of the rule vxse_drl2:
vxse_drl2,large_mirror_size=20g
You can specify values that are to be ignored by inserting a # character at the start of
the line, for example:
#vxse_drl2,large_mirror_size=20g
■ Edit the attribute values that are defined in the /etc/default/vxse file. If you
do this, make a backup copy of the file in case you need to regress your changes.
Attributes are applied using the following order of precedence from highest to lowest:
1 A value specified on the command line.
2 A value specified in a user-defined defaults file.
3 A value in the /etc/default/vxse file that has not been commented out.
4 A built-in value defined at compile time.