HP 9000 rp5405 Servers - Manual (Page 9)

Conditions for copy pair operations (basic versus advanced) ................................................. 245
Advanced operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands ........................... 245
Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual command devices ..................................... 246
About virtual command devices .......................................................................................... 247
Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations ......................................................... 248
Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device .................................................................. 249
Using a Virtual Command Device server .............................................................................. 250
If a virtual command device fails to call the Device Manager Agent ........................................ 251
P9000 RAID Manager response time and virtual command devices ........................................ 251
Performing user authentication for replica operations ............................................................. 252
Monitoring and management of copy groups defined by device group .......................................... 253
About copy groups defined by device group ........................................................................ 253
Prerequisites for copy group configurations defined by device group ....................................... 254
Precautions for replica operations (Application Agent) ........................................................... 254
Unsupported copy group configurations defined by device group ........................................... 256
11 Refreshing management information ............................................... 257
About refreshing management information ................................................................................. 257
Functions for refreshing management information ................................................................. 258
Explorer menu items for refreshing management information ................................................ 258
Refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................................... 259
About refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................... 259
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (open systems) .......................................................... 260
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (mainframe systems) .................................................. 261
Disabling the Device Manager refresh function ..................................................................... 262
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each host ............................................................ 263
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each volume ........................................................ 263
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each copy group .................................................. 264
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for My Copy Groups .................................................. 264
Refreshing the copy pair status automatically for each information source ................................ 264
Refreshing copy pair status automatically for each pair management server ............................. 265
Refreshing configuration information .......................................................................................... 266
About refreshing configuration information ........................................................................... 266
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in open systems ........................... 268
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in mainframe systems .................... 269
Refreshing configuration information automatically (using the refresh settings) ........................... 270
Refreshing configuration information manually for each information source .............................. 271
Refreshing configuration information manually for each storage system .................................... 271
12 System monitoring ........................................................................ 273
About system monitoring .......................................................................................................... 273
Monitoring configuration information ......................................................................................... 274
About copy pair configuration checks ................................................................................. 274
Checking copy pair configurations ..................................................................................... 275
Copy pair configuration check workflow ....................................................................... 275
Checking copy pair configuration definitions ................................................................. 275
Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific volume) .................................... 276
Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific copy group) .............................. 277
Viewing copy pair configuration definition information .......................................................... 277
Viewing information about a configuration definition file (open systems) ............................ 277
Viewing prefix information (mainframe systems) ............................................................. 278
Monitoring pair status ............................................................................................................. 278
Monitoring pair statuses using alerts ................................................................................... 278
Monitoring pair statuses using My Copy Groups .................................................................. 279
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