Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

recovered, the plexes are put into the ACTIVE state, and the state of the site is set
to ACTIVE.
If vxrelocd is not running, vxattachd reattaches a site only when all the disks at
that site become accessible. After reattachment succeeds, vxattachd sets the site
state to ACTIVE, and initiates recovery of the plexes. When all the plexes have
been recovered, the plexes are put into the ACTIVE state.
Note: vxattachd does not try to reattach a site that you have explicitly detached
by using the vxdg detachsite command.
The automatic site reattachment feature is enabled by default. The vxattachd
daemon uses email to notify root of any attempts to reattach sites and to initiate
recovery of plexes at those sites.
To send mail to other users, add the user name to the line that starts vxattachd
in the /sbin/init.d/vxvm-recover startup script, and reboot the system.
If you do not want a site to be recovered automatically, kill the vxattachd daemon,
and prevent it from restarting. If you stop vxattachd, the automatic plex
reattachment also stops. To kill the daemon, run the following command from
the command line:
# ps -afe
Locate the process table entry for vxattachd, and kill it by specifying its process
ID:
# kill -9 PID
If there is no entry in the process table for vxattachd, the automatic site
reattachment feature is disabled.
To prevent the automatic site reattachment feature from being restarted, comment
out the line that starts vxattachd in the /sbin/init.d/vxvm-recover startup
script.
Administering sites and remote mirrors
Failure scenarios and recovery procedures
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