HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0109, July 2009)

triggers the execution of the ForceActive utility, it should retry the operation after 2 minutes if need.
The ForceActive utility takes care of the retries, should they be needed.
Using the ForceActive command
The ForceActive utility is executed without having to provide a user name and password. This is
because there is not an active VSM to authenticate users. To minimize the risk, place the utility on the
VSM server itself, and trigger its execution by remote connection over SSH.
The command syntax is:
• To display the help for the ForceActive utility, run ForceActive.exe –h from a command
prompt.
• Use ForceActive –sm if you want to recover all the synchronous mirror groups automatically,
after bringing the VSM online.
• To view the output messages that the utility generates, redirect them into an external output file,
for example, ForceActive > out.log.
To execute the command from a different Windows computer, that interfaces with the VSM over a
LAN, you can use the same utility. However, you need to copy the associated DLLs to that computer.
In addition, when running the command, you need to specify the IP address and the IOR port of the
target VSM. The utility can accept up to two IP addresses for the target VSM. The utility will use the
second IP if the first one returns an error. If you use multiple IPs, make sure that all of them belong to
the same VSM.
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