Installation and Reference Guide for HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA3000/5000 VCS 4.xxx Disk Arrays 3.00.00 (AA-RW8SF-TE, March 2008)

5 Managing storage arrays using
theHPMPIOEVADSMwiththeCLI
utility
The command line interface utility (CLI) of HP MPIO EVA DSM enables you to monitor and manage
multipathing devices. This chapter describes the following CLI commands:
• hpdsm devices
• hpdsm d evices all
• hpdsm paths device
• hpdsm set device policy
• hpdsm set device alb
• hpdsm set device path
• hpdsm cleanup device
• hpdsm notify
• hpdsm help
hpdsm devi
ces
Syntax: hpdsm devices
The hpdsm devices command displays information about the HP MPIO devices as shown in the
followin
g example. If there are no devices present, the following message is displayed: No devices
found.
NOTE:
See hpdsm set device policy for a definitionofthepolicies.TheP.B.T.L.columnshowsthedeviceport,
bus, targ
et, and LUN.
Example:
hpdsm devices
Device#
Device Name Serial No.
Active
Paths
Pol-
icy
Disk#
P.B.T.L ALB
1 COMPAQ
HSV111_(C)COM-
PAQ
600508B
4000149B500028000001D0000
8
SQST
Disk1 3.0.61
Y
2 COMPAQ
HSV111_(C)COM-
PAQ
600508B4000149B50002800000230000 8
SQST
Disk2 5.0.4.2
N
3 COMPAQ
HSV111_(C)COM-
PAQ
600508B4000149B50002800000290000 8
NLB
Disk3 5.0.0.3
N
4 COMPAQ
HSV111_(C)COM-
PAQ
60050
8B4000149B500028000002F0000
8
NLB
Disk4 5.0.3
.4
Y
5 COMPAQ
HSV111_(C)COM-
PAQ
600508B4000149B50002800000350000 8
SQB
Disk5 5.0.3.5
N
6 COMPAQ
HSV111_(C)COM-
PAQ
600508B4000149B500028000003B0000 8
SQB
Disk6 3.0.3.6
N
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