HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.5.0-00 User Guide (TB584-96070, July 2013)
Basic operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands .................................. 245
Conditions for copy pair operations (basic versus advanced) ................................................. 247
Advanced operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands ........................... 247
Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual command devices ..................................... 248
About virtual command devices .......................................................................................... 249
Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations ......................................................... 250
Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device .................................................................. 251
Using a Virtual Command Device server .............................................................................. 252
If a virtual command device fails to call the Device Manager Agent ........................................ 253
P9000 RAID Manager response time and virtual command devices ........................................ 253
Performing user authentication for replica operations ............................................................. 254
Monitoring and management of copy groups defined by device group .......................................... 255
About copy groups defined by device group ........................................................................ 255
Prerequisites for copy group configurations defined by device group ....................................... 256
Precautions for replica operations (Application Agent) ........................................................... 256
Unsupported copy group configurations defined by device group ........................................... 258
11 Refreshing management information ............................................... 259
About refreshing management information ................................................................................. 259
Functions for refreshing management information ................................................................. 260
Explorer menu items for refreshing management information ................................................ 260
Refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................................... 261
About refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................... 261
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (open systems) .......................................................... 262
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (mainframe systems) .................................................. 263
Disabling the Device Manager refresh function ..................................................................... 264
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each host ............................................................ 265
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each volume ........................................................ 265
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each copy group .................................................. 266
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for My Copy Groups .................................................. 266
Refreshing the copy pair status automatically for each information source ................................ 266
Refreshing copy pair status automatically for each pair management server ............................. 267
Refreshing configuration information .......................................................................................... 268
About refreshing configuration information ........................................................................... 268
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in open systems ........................... 270
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in mainframe systems .................... 271
Refreshing configuration information automatically (using the refresh settings) ........................... 272
Refreshing configuration information manually for each information source .............................. 273
Refreshing configuration information manually for each storage system .................................... 273
12 System monitoring ........................................................................ 275
About system monitoring .......................................................................................................... 275
Monitoring configuration information ......................................................................................... 276
About copy pair configuration checks ................................................................................. 276
Checking copy pair configurations ..................................................................................... 277
Copy pair configuration check workflow ....................................................................... 277
Checking copy pair configuration definitions ................................................................. 277
Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific volume) .................................... 278
Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific copy group) .............................. 279
Viewing copy pair configuration definition information .......................................................... 279
Viewing information about a configuration definition file (open systems) ............................ 279
Viewing prefix information (mainframe systems) ............................................................. 280
Monitoring pair status ............................................................................................................. 280
Monitoring pair statuses using alerts ................................................................................... 280
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