Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

The vxdisk scandisks command rescans the devices in the OS device tree and

triggers a DMP reconfiguration. You can specify parameters to vxdisk scandisks

to implement partial device discovery. For example, this command makes VxVM

discover newly added devices that were unknown to it earlier:

# vxdisk scandisks new

The next example discovers fabric devices:

# vxdisk scandisks fabric

The following command scans for the devices c1t1d0 and c2t2d0:

# vxdisk scandisks device=c1t1d0,c2t2d0

Alternatively, you can specify a ! prefix character to indicate that you want to

scan for all devices except those that are listed.

Note: The ! character is a special character in some shells. The following examples

show how to escape it in a bash shell.

# vxdisk scandisks \!device=c1t1d0,c2t2d0

You can also scan for devices that are connected (or not connected) to a list of

logical or physical controllers. For example, this command discovers and configures

all devices except those that are connected to the specified logical controllers:

# vxdisk scandisks \!ctlr=c1,c2

The next command discovers devices that are connected to the specified physical

controller:

# vxdisk scandisks pctlr=8/12.8.0.255.0

The items in a list of physical controllers are separated by + characters.

You can use the command vxdmpadm getctlr all to obtain a list of physical

controllers.

You should specify only one selection argument to the vxdisk scandisks

command. Specifying multiple options results in an error.

See the vxdisk(1M) manual page.

Administering disks

Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices