HP XP P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software Installation Guide

NOTE:

• Do not specify the local site's device address domain ID or the local site's Non Gen'ed

device address domain ID.

• If a site is being used as a local site by another Business Continuity Manager agent, you

cannot specify it for use as a remote site.

NOTE: Notes about specifying the PREFIX parameter

• Do not specify a nonexistent prefix or device address domain ID in the PREFIX parameter.

Even though specifying a nonexistent prefix or device address domain ID does not result in

an error during Business Continuity Manager agent startup, an error will occur during a

Replication Manager request.

• In the PREFIX parameter, do not specify any value other than the prefix of the configuration

file. If multiple datasets correspond to the specified prefix (such as the SYS1 prefix), Business

Continuity Manager agent processing might slow down.

• If you specify the same prefix multiple times for MODE(MONITOR), the monitoring processing

of Replication Manager might slow down. If you specify the same prefix multiple times for

MODE(EDIT), an error will occur and you will be unable to start the Business Continuity

Manager agent.

• If you specify multiple PREFIX parameters, it will take time to switch the configuration files

for each prefix during a Replication Manager request. Therefore, if there are many configuration

files, we recommend that you aggregate prefixes in the configuration files so that there is only

one PREFIX parameter, to shorten the access time for a request from or a response to

Replication Manager.

• If you want to modify a configuration file that has a prefix specified in the PREFIX parameter,

make sure you use the ISPF panel or Replication Manager. If you use another method,

information might not be displayed on Replication Manager, or an error might occur.

• The access time for a Replication Manager request or response becomes longer according to

the number of copy pairs defined in the copy group definition file that has the specified prefix.

Therefore, specify the monitoring interval of Replication Manager to fit the environment (the

host capability corresponding to the number of copy pairs).

DEVN(start-device-number,end-device-number) ~ <4 hexadecimal characters>

Specifies a range of devices from which to collect information when filtering the host volume

information to be passed to Replication Manager. Specify the start-device-number and

end-device-number in the ascending order of hexadecimal characters. If the DEVN parameter

has not been specified before, DEVN(0000,FFFF) is assumed.

NOTE: Notes about specifying the DEVN parameter

• To reduce the access time required for requests and replies from Replication Manager, we

recommend that you specify a range of target devices from which information is collected.

• When you specify more than one DEVN parameter, even if there are duplicate devices, they

are not eliminated, so make sure you avoid specifying such duplications.

LOGLEVEL(output-level) ~ <numeric character> ((0-3)) <<2>>

Specifies the log output level.

Logs are not output. If 0 is specified, it is difficult to determine the cause of a communication

failure or an error that occurs during execution of a Business Continuity Manager agent

command.

66 Setting up the environment when linking with XP P9000 Replication Manager