HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 9)

Takeover operation .................................................................................................... 234
Swap operation ......................................................................................................... 235
Force-split operation ................................................................................................... 235
Takeover-recovery operations (resync and recreate) ........................................................ 235
Advanced recovery use cases ...................................................................................... 236
Recovering a copy pair configuration definition file (takeback) ......................................... 240
Alert settings and volume switching .............................................................................. 240
Basic operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands .................................. 241
Advanced operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands ........................... 242
Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual command devices ..................................... 243
About virtual command devices .......................................................................................... 244
Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations ......................................................... 246
Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device .................................................................. 247
Using a Virtual Command Device server .............................................................................. 248
Performing user authentication for replica operations ............................................................. 249
If a virtual command device fails to call the Device Manager Agent ........................................ 250
P9000 RAID Manager response time and virtual command devices ........................................ 250
Monitoring and management of copy groups defined by device group .......................................... 251
About copy groups defined by device group ........................................................................ 251
Prerequisites for copy group configurations defined by device group ....................................... 252
Precautions for replica operations (Application Agent) ........................................................... 252
Unsupported copy group configurations defined by device group ........................................... 254
11 Refreshing management information ............................................... 255
About refreshing management information ................................................................................. 255
Functions for refreshing management information ................................................................. 256
Explorer menu items for refreshing management information ................................................ 257
Refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................................... 257
About refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................... 257
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (open systems) .......................................................... 259
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (mainframe systems) .................................................. 259
Disabling the Device Manager refresh function ..................................................................... 260
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each host ............................................................ 261
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each volume ........................................................ 261
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each copy group .................................................. 262
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for My Copy Groups .................................................. 262
Refreshing the copy pair status automatically for each information source ................................ 262
Refreshing copy pair status automatically for each pair management server ............................. 263
Refreshing configuration information .......................................................................................... 264
About refreshing configuration information ........................................................................... 264
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in open systems ........................... 266
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in mainframe systems .................... 267
Refreshing configuration information automatically (using the refresh settings) ........................... 268
Refreshing configuration information manually for each information source .............................. 269
Refreshing configuration information manually for each storage system .................................... 269
12 System monitoring ........................................................................ 271
About system monitoring .......................................................................................................... 271
Monitoring configuration information ......................................................................................... 272
About copy pair configuration checks ................................................................................. 272
Checking copy pair configurations ..................................................................................... 273
Copy pair configuration check workflow ....................................................................... 273
Checking copy pair configuration definitions ................................................................. 273
Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific volume) .................................... 274
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