Required settings for configuration files, Preparing the configuration files on each site – HP XP Racks User Manual
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Business Continuity Manager creates this file for the first
device address domain of the route when the route list
definition has completed.
Used to register a command device in the storage system
and to use the Remote DKC control function and Cnt-Ac S
consistency preservation function.
Purpose
This file is created when the route list definition file is
created. See
“Defining a route list” (page 606)
.
Creating procedure in the ISPF panel
Each first device address domain of a route
Created for:
Copy group definition file
Description
Item
prefix.GRP.copy-group-id
Naming convention
Required to operate a copy group.
Required for all copy types and configurations
Purpose
See
“Defining a copy group” (page 641)
Creating procedure in the ISPF panel
Each copy group
Created for:
NOTE:
You can also generate a copy group definition file by using CSV files. For details on the copy group definition
file generation function that uses CSV files, see
“Copy Group Definition File Generation function using CSV files”
.
For details about the XML file dataset format, see the HP XP7 for Business Continuity Manager
Reference Guide.
Required settings for configuration files
This section describes the ISPF panel settings that are required to create configuration files. You
must set the following information from the ISPF panel:
Enter information in the following fields in the Discover/Define Configuration ISPF panel (accessed
by selecting 3 Discover/Define Configuration from the Main Menu):
•
Primary site device number
•
Secondary site device number
•
Copy types of copy groups (such as BC Z, Cnt Ac-S Z, TCA, or Cnt Ac-J Z)
•
Detailed information settings on the copy pairs of the primary site and other sites
•
Storage system routing information and command device settings
•
Logical and physical path settings
The settings the user enters from the ISPF panel are written into configuration files (the XML files).
Multiple XML files are created for different types of settings.
Preparing the configuration files on each site
For 2DC configurations and 3DC configurations, you need to prepare, at each site, configuration
files for one or more other sites in order to enable operations to continue at each site when a
disaster occurs. For details on how to prepare the configuration files, see
.
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