Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

To configure logging in the startup script
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Comment-out or uncomment any of the following lines to enable or disable
the corresponding feature in vxconfigd:
opts="$opts -x syslog"
# use syslog for console messages
#opts="$opts -x log"
# messages to vxconfigd.log
#opts="$opts -x logfile=/foo/bar" # specify an alternate log file
#opts="$opts -x timestamp"
# timestamp console messages
# To turn on debugging console output, uncomment the following line.
# The debug level can be set higher for more output. The highest
# debug level is 9.
#debug=1
# enable debugging console output
The opts="$opts -x syslog" string is usually uncommented so that
vxconfigd uses syslog logging by default. Inserting a # character at the
beginning of the line turns off syslog logging for vxconfigd.
By default, vxconfigd is started at boot time with the -x syslog option. This
redirects vxconfigd console messages to syslog. If you want to retain this
behavior when restarting vxconfigd from the command line, include the -x
syslog argument, as restarting vxconfigd does not preserve the option
settings with which it was previously running. Similarly, any Veritas Volume
Manager operations that require vxconfigd to be restarted may not retain
the behavior that was previously specified by option settings.
Types of messages
VxVM is fault-tolerant and resolves most problems without system administrator
intervention. If the configuration daemon, vxconfigd, recognizes the actions that
are necessary, it queues up the transactions that are required. VxVM provides
atomic changes of system configurations; either a transaction completes fully, or
the system is left in the same state as though the transaction was never attempted.
If vxconfigd is unable to recognize and fix system problems, the system
administrator needs to handle the task of problem solving using the diagnostic
messages that are returned from the software. The following sections describe
error message numbers and the types of error message that may be seen, and
63Error messages
Types of messages