HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.3.1-00 User Guide

Advanced recovery use cases ...................................................................................... 232
Recovering a copy pair configuration definition file (takeback) ......................................... 236
Alert settings and volume switching .............................................................................. 236
Basic operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands .................................. 237
Conditions for copy pair operations (basic versus advanced) ................................................. 239
Advanced operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands ........................... 239
Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual command devices ..................................... 240
About virtual command devices .......................................................................................... 241
Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations ......................................................... 242
Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device .................................................................. 243
Using a Virtual Command Device server .............................................................................. 244
If a virtual command device fails to call the Device Manager Agent ........................................ 245
P9000 RAID Manager response time and virtual command devices ........................................ 245
Performing user authentication for replica operations ............................................................. 246
Monitoring and management of copy groups defined by device group .......................................... 247
About copy groups defined by device group ........................................................................ 247
Prerequisites for copy group configurations defined by device group ....................................... 248
Precautions for replica operations (Application Agent) ........................................................... 248
Unsupported copy group configurations defined by device group ........................................... 250
11 Refreshing management information ............................................... 251
About refreshing management information ................................................................................. 251
Functions for refreshing management information ................................................................. 252
Explorer menu items for refreshing management information ................................................ 252
Refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................................... 253
About refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................... 253
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (open systems) .......................................................... 254
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (mainframe systems) .................................................. 255
Disabling the Device Manager refresh function ..................................................................... 256
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each host ............................................................ 257
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each volume ........................................................ 257
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each copy group .................................................. 258
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for My Copy Groups .................................................. 258
Refreshing the copy pair status automatically for each information source ................................ 258
Refreshing copy pair status automatically for each pair management server ............................. 259
Refreshing configuration information .......................................................................................... 260
About refreshing configuration information ........................................................................... 260
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in open systems ........................... 262
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in mainframe systems .................... 263
Refreshing configuration information automatically (using the refresh settings) ........................... 264
Refreshing configuration information manually for each information source .............................. 265
Refreshing configuration information manually for each storage system .................................... 265
12 System monitoring ........................................................................ 267
About system monitoring .......................................................................................................... 267
Monitoring configuration information ......................................................................................... 268
About copy pair configuration checks ................................................................................. 268
Checking copy pair configurations ..................................................................................... 269
Copy pair configuration check workflow ....................................................................... 269
Checking copy pair configuration definitions ................................................................. 269
Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific volume) .................................... 270
Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific copy group) .............................. 271
Viewing copy pair configuration definition information .......................................................... 271
Viewing information about a configuration definition file (open systems) ............................ 271
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