vxinstall(1m) [hpux man page]

vxinstall(1M)															     vxinstall(1M)

NAME

       vxinstall - menu-driven Veritas Volume Manager initial configuration procedure

SYNOPSIS

       vxinstall

DESCRIPTION

       The  vxinstall utility provides a menu driven interface to configure Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM).  If you install the Veritas Volume Man-
       ager software package using the operating system's package administration commands, you can run vxinstall to configure VxVM for initial use
       on your system.

       Note: If you use the Veritas software installation scripts, do not run this utility.

OPERATIONS

       Licensing
	    vxinstall  first asks if you want to view the Veritas licenses already installed on the system.  Answering "yes" is equivalent to exe-
	    cuting the vxlicrep command (see vxlicrep(1)).

	    You are then asked if you want to add licenses for other Veritas products.	Answering "yes" is equivalent  to  running  the  vxlicinst
	    command (see vxlicinst(1)).  and entering a license key.

       Enclosure-Based Naming
	    You  can choose whether you want to use disk access names that are based on the device names assigned by the operating system, or that
	    are based on names that you assign to enclosures.

       System-Wide Default Disk Group
	    You can enter the name for the default disk group (defaultdg).  This is an alias for the disk group name that should be assumed if the
	    -g	option is not specified to a command, or if the VXVM_DEFAULTDG environment variable is undefined.  By default, defaultdg is set to
	    nodg (that is, no disk group).

NOTES

       From release 4.0 of VxVM, it is no longer necessary to run vxinstall to configure the rootdg disk group.  Disks	and  disk  groups  may	be
       added  to  VxVM	by  running  commands such as vxdiskadm(1M) or by using the graphical user interface without first running vxinstall.  The
       operation of VxVM does not require any disk groups to have been configured, and a disk group named rootdg does not need to  be  present	on
       the system.  Any disk group may be configured as the default disk group that is to be used with VxVM commands.  Any disk group named rootdg
       has no special significance to VxVM. See the vxdg(1M) manual page for further details.

SEE ALSO

       vxdctl(1M), vxdg(1M), vxdiskadm(1M), vxintro(1M), vxlicinst(1), vxlicrep(1)

VxVM 5.0.31.1							    24 Mar 2008 						     vxinstall(1M)

vxreattach(1M)															    vxreattach(1M)

NAME

       vxreattach - reattach disk drives that have once again become accessible

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/vx/bin/vxreattach [-br ] [accessname...]

       /etc/vx/bin/vxreattach -c accessname

DESCRIPTION

       The vxreattach utility reattaches disks to the disk group they were in and retains the same media name.

       This  operation	may  be  necessary  if	a  disk has a transient failure, or if Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) starts with some disk drivers
       unloaded and unloadable. Disks then enter the failed state.  If the problem is fixed, vxreattach may be able to reattach the disks  without
       plexes being flagged as stale, as long as the reattach happens before any volumes on the disk are started.

       vxreattach  tries  to find a disk in the same disk group with the same disk ID for the disk(s) to be reattached. The reattach operation may
       fail even after finding the disk with the matching disk ID if the original cause (or some other cause) for the disk failure still exists.

       vxreattach is usually invoked by vxdiskadm when performing disk recovery.  It is not intended to be run directly by an administrator.

OPTIONS

       -b	 Performs the reattach operation in the background.

       -c	 Checks if a reattach is possible.  No operation is performed, but the name of the disk group and disk media  name  at	which  the
		 disk can be reattached is displayed.

       -r	 Tries to recover stale plexes of any volumes on the failed disk.  It does this by calling vxrecover.

EXIT CODES

       A zero exit status is returned if the reattach is performed; non-zero is returned otherwise.

       See vxintro(1M) for a list of standard exit codes.

EXAMPLES

       Check if reattachment of disk c1t2d0 is possible:

	      /etc/vx/bin/vxreattach -c c1t2d0

       If  reattachment  is  possible, vxreattach returns with an exit status of 0 and displays the disk group name and disk media name.  If reat-
       tachment is not possible, vxreattach returns an exit status of 2 and displays an error.

       Attempt to reattach the disk in the foreground and try to recover stale plexes of any volumes on the disk:

	      /etc/vx/bin/vxreattach -r c1t2d0

       If the reattachment is successful, vxreattach returns an exit status of 0.  Otherwise, if an error occurs, vxreattach  returns  a  non-zero
       exit code as defined on vxintro(1M).

FILES

       /etc/default/vxplex Standard  defaults file that can be used to determine whether FastResync is used when attaching plexes.  See vxplex(1M)
			   for details.

SEE ALSO

       vxdiskadm(1M), vxintro(1M), vxplex(1M), vxrecover(1M)

VxVM 5.0.31.1							    24 Mar 2008 						    vxreattach(1M)