Installation and Reference Guide for HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays 3.00.00 (AA-RVJ6F-TE, March 2008)

4 Managing storage arrays usin g
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 d escribes the following CLI commands:
• hpdsm devices
• hpdsm d evices all
• hpdsm paths device
• hpdsm set device policy
• hpdsm set device path
• hpdsm cleanup device
• hpdsm notify
• hpdsm help
hpdsm devices
Syntax: hp
dsm 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 definitionofthepolicies.TheP.B.T.L.columnshowsthedeviceport,
bus, target, and LUN.
Example:
hpdsm devices
Device#
Device Name Serial No.
Active
Paths
Policy
Disk#
P.B.T.L ALB
1HP
OPEN-K*2 040076E1000A 2
RR
Disk 3 3.1.0.0
N/A
2HP
OPEN-K
040076E1000C 2
SQST
Disk 4 3.1.0.1
N/A
3HP
OPEN-K
040076E
10016
2
SQST
Disk 5 3.1.0.2
N/A
4HP
OPEN-K
040076E10020 2
NLB
Disk 6 4.1.0.3
N/A
5HP
OPEN-K
040076E1003E 2
NLB
Disk 7 4.1.0.4
N/A
hpdsm devices all
Syntax: hpdsm devices all
The hpdsm devices all command displays information of the device, followed by their path
information as shown in the following example. If there are no devices present, the following m essage
is displayed: No devices found.
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