Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Troubleshooting Guide (5900-1507, April 2011)

Logging commands and

transactions

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Command logs

■ Transaction logs

■ Association of command and transaction logs

■ Associating CVM commands issued from slave to master node

Command logs

The vxcmdlog command allows you to log the invocation of other Veritas Volume

Manager (VxVM) commands to a file.

The following examples demonstrate the usage of vxcmdlog:

List current settings for command logging.vxcmdlog -l

Turn on command logging.vxcmdlog -m on

Set the maximum command log file size to 512K.vxcmdlog -s 512k

Set the maximum number of historic command log files

to 10.

vxcmdlog -n 10

Remove any limit on the number of historic command

log files.

vxcmdlog -n no_limit

Turn off command logging.vxcmdlog -m off

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