Installation and Reference Guide for HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active) Disk Arrays 3.00.00 (AA-RW8AD-TE, March 2008)

3 Managing s torage arrays using
theHPMPIOMSADSMwiththe
CLI utility
The Command Line Interface utility (CLI) for HP MPIO MSA DSM provides the ability to monitor and
manage multipathing devices. This chapter describes the user interface for the CLI, including:
• CLI commands
CLI commands
This section
describes the CLI commands:
• hpdsm devices
• hpdsm d evices all
• hpdsm path d
evice
• hpdsm set device policy
• hpdsm set device path
• hpdsm clea
nup device
• hpdsm notify
• hpdsm help
hpdsm devices
Syntax: hpdsm devices
The hpdsm devices command displays information about the HP MPIO d evices as shown in the
following 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, target, and LUN.
Example:
hpdsm devices
De-
vice#
Device Name Serial No.
Active
Paths
Policy
Disk#
P.B.T.L ALB
1HP
MSA_VOLUME
600508B300912160AF87D3596705001B 2
NLB
Disk 7 4.1.3.1
N/A
2HP
MSA_VOLUME
600508B300912160A6C7C35E4FA2001A 2
RR
Disk 8 4.1.3.2
N/A
3HP
MSA_VOLUME
600508B300912160ACA7F3631676001C 2
SQB
Disk 9 3.1.3.3
N/A
4HP
MSA_VOLUME
600508B300912160AAA7E3672638001B 2
SQR
Disk 10 3.1.3.4
N/A
5HP
MSA_VOLUME
600508B300912160A0C7936B297F001D 2
SQST
Disk 11 3.1.3.5
N/A
6HP
MSA_VOLUME
600508B300912160AD87836F3945001C 2
SQST
Disk 12 3.1.3.6
N/A
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