Detecting errors by using path health checking, Detecting errors by using path health checking -29 – HP XP Racks User Manual

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User operation

Number of

errors and time

passed since

error

monitoring

started

Information

about paths

not subject to

automatic

failback

Placing the path Online

while intermittent error

monitoring is being

performed

Inherited

(Not applicable)
If a path has

been removed

from the paths

subject to

automatic

monitoring, that

path is no longer

monitored.

Restarting the HDLM manager

Reset

#3

Inherited

Restarting the host

Reset

Reset

#1

When you turn the intermittent error monitoring function off, information

about paths not subject to automatic failback will be reset. If you do not

want to reset the information about paths not subject to automatic

failback when you turn the intermittent error monitoring function off,

change the target paths to Offline(C).

#2

The number of errors and the time passed since error monitoring had

started are both reset to 0, and then monitoring restarts from the time

the setting change is made in accordance with the changed monitoring

conditions.

#3

The number of errors and the time passed since error monitoring had

started are both reset to 0, and then monitoring restarts from the time

the HDLM manager starts.

Detecting errors by using path health checking

HDLM can check the status of paths for which I/O operations are not being

performed at regular intervals. This function is called path health checking.

Without path health checking, an error is not detected unless I/O is

performed because the system only checks the path status when I/O is

performed. With path health checking, however, the system checks the status

of online paths at regular intervals regardless of whether I/O is performed. If

an error is detected in a path, path health checking functionality switches the

status of that path to Offline(E) or Online(E), so you can use the dlnkmgr

command's view operation to check the path error.

HDLM Functions

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