installation and reference guide HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active) Disk Arrays 3.02.00 (AA-RW8AF-TE, March 2009)

4 Managing storage arrays using the HP

MPIO MSA DSM with the CLI utility

The command line interface utility (CLI) of HP MPIO MSA DSM enables you to monitor and manage

multipathing devices. This chapter describes the following CLI commands:

• hpdsm devices

• hpdsm devices all

• hpdsm paths device

• hpdsm set device policy

• hpdsm set device subset path

• hpdsm set device path

• hpdsm cleanup device

• hpdsm notify

• hpdsm help

hpdsm devices

Syntax: hpdsm devices

The hpdsm devices command displays information about the HP MPIO devices as shown in the

following example. If there are no devices present, the following message is displayed: No devices

found.

NOTE:

See hpdsm set device policy for a definition of the policies. The P.B.T.L. column shows the device port,

bus, target, and LUN.

Example:

hpdsm devices

ALBP.B.T.LDisk#Policy

Act-

ive

Paths

Serial No.Device NameDevice#

N/A4.1.3.1Disk 1NLB2600508B300912160AF87D3596705001B

MSA_VOLUME

N/A4.1.3.2Disk 2

RR— Sub-

set

2600508B300912160A6C7C35E4FA2001A

MSA_VOLUME

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