Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for AIX (6.6) (T5208-96010, April 2011)

2. HDLM Functions

• Offline(E)

The status indicating that an I/O could not be issued on a given path, because an

error occurred on the path.

The (E) means error.

(3) Correspondence Between Path Statuses Displayed by the OS and by HDLM

Table 2-5: Correspondence Between Path Statuses Displayed by the OS and by

HDLM shows the correspondence between the path statuses displayed when

commands such as the AIX

lspath command are executed and the path statuses

displayed when the

dlnkmgr command's view operation is executed.

Table 2-5: Correspondence Between Path Statuses Displayed by the OS and by

HDLM

(4) Status transitions of a path

Figure 2-9: Path status transitions shows the status transitions of a path.

Path status displayed by an AIX command Path status displayed by the HDLM command

Can be used Either Online or Online(E)

Cannot be used Offline(C)

Error Offline(E)