HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring scripting guide (T2558-96074, February 2008)

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8. If you specified to failover or failback the hostname in the monitor option command. You will need to specify a user
and the associated password that has update privileges within Active Directory using the
monitor account add
command. This allows SPNs to be created and deleted during failover and failback.
9. Specify any scripts by using the monitor script add command.
Command MONITOR ACCOUNT ADD
Description Identifies a user account with update permissions within Active Directory
Syntax
MONITOR ACCOUNT ADD <username> <password> [monitor]
Options  username—Name of the user in the format domain\user or user@domain
 password—Password associated with the user name
 monitor—Name of the source machine designated as the monitor
Examples
monitor account add administrator ***** alpha
Notes  The monitor account add command is not available when scrolling through the Text Client
command history.
 The password cannot be a Storage Mirroring keyword. These are any Storage Mirroring DTCL
commands (source, target, and so on) or any Storage Mirroring DTCL shortcut commands (env,
mon, rep, and so on).
 The password cannot be blank.
 Options that contain non-alphanumeric characters must be enclosed in quotation marks.
Command MONITOR SCRIPT ADD
Description Specifies the scripts that should be run during the failover and failback processes
Syntax
MONITOR SCRIPT ADD <type> <script_name> [ARGS=<arguments>] [monitor]
Options  type—Any of the following script types
 PREFAILOVER—The file is a pre-failover script to be run on the target before failover
 POSTFAILOVER—The file is a post-failover script to be run on the target after failover
 PREFAILBACK—The file is a pre-failback script to be run on the target before failback
 POSTFAILBACK—The file is a post-failback script to be run on the target after failback
 SRCPOSTFAILBACK—The file is a post-failback script to be run on the source after failback
 script_name—Full path and name of the script file
 arguments—Comma-separated list of valid arguments required to execute the script
 monitor—Name of the source machine designated as the monitor
Examples
monitor script add prefailback "C:\Program Files\StorageWorks\Storage
Mirroring\scripts\ preback.bat"
Notes
 If you do not specify a monitor, the current source designated as the monitor will be used. If you
have not identified a monitor, you will receive an error message stating that a monitor has not
been selected.
 Options that contain non-alphanumeric characters must be enclosed in quotation marks.