HP Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Licenses - Manual (Page 501)

• Start the HDLM manager.
The dlmstart utility performs the above operations as a batch operation.
If an HDLM alert driver and a filter driver have already been loaded or the
HDLM manager is already running, the relevant operation is not performed.
Format
/opt/DynamicLinkManager/bin/dlmstart
Notes:
• You cannot execute multiple instances of the dlmstart utility at the same
time.
• You cannot execute the dlmstart utility while the dlmcfgmgr utility is
executing.
• If you execute the dlmstart utility, the I/O and I/O error counts for
existing paths displayed when the HDLM command (dlnkmgr view -
path) is executed are initialized to 0.
• If you execute the dlmstart utility, do not change the settings of the
sysfs interface that handles SCSI devices after an HDLM device is
configured.
dlmupdatesysinit Utility for Updating System Scripts
In an environment that uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux, if you update the
initscripts package after installing HDLM, HDLM information in the /etc/
rc.d/rc.sysinit file.
In an environment that uses SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, if you update the
aaa_base, raidtools, mdadm, or lvm2 package after installing HDLM, HDLM
information in the /etc/init.d/boot.localfs file, the /etc/init.d/
boot.md file, or the /etc/init.d/boot.lvm file might be lost.
If the HDLM information is lost, execute the dlmupdatesysinit utility to re-
register the information. For details on the conditions for executing the this
utility, see Notes on Linux on page 3-98 .
Format
/opt/DynamicLinkManager/bin/dlmupdatesysinit
Examples
Example 1:
In this example, the HDLM information is lost in an environment that uses
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the following execution example, the utility
re-registers the HDLM information in the rc.sysinit file:
Utility Reference
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