HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays 4.00.00 installation and reference guide (AA-RVJ6J-TE, October 2009)

5 Managing storage arrays using the HP
MPIO XP DSM with the CLI utility
The command line interface utility (CLI) of HP MPIO XP 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
Active
Paths
Serial No.Device NameDevice#
N/A3.1.0.0Disk 1RR-Subset250 142460C00HP OPEN-V1
N/A3.1.0.1Disk 2SQST-Subset250 142460C01HP OPEN-V2
N/A3.1.0.2Disk 3SQST250 142460C02HP OPEN-V3
N/A4.1.0.3Disk 4NLB250 142460C03HP OPEN-V4
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