HP P9000 Replication Manager Software Update Release Notes 7.1.0-01 (TB584-96033, July 2011)

Confirmed issue
After operation of the Application Agent CLI or operation of Application Linkage from the
Replication Manager GUI, the primary volume might be disconnected from the database server
(file server) when the server is rebooted or when the scanning for disks is performed.
Conditions of occurrence
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:
◦ A configuration where group information is imported to RAID Manager.
◦ The definitions of HORCM_DEV, HORCM_LDEV, and HORCM_LDEV are omitted in the RAID
Manager configuration definition file.
◦ Either of the following operations is performed:
One of the following Replication Manager GUI operations is performed:–
– Creating a replica for Exchange
– Concealing a secondary volume
– Unmounting a replica
– Either of the following Application Agent CLI operations are performed:
– One of the following commands for VSS backup is executed:
– drmexgbackup (with -mode vss option)
– drmfsbackup (with -mode vss option)
– EX_DRM_EXG_BACKUP (with -mode vss option)
– EX_DRM_FS_BACKUP (with -mode vss option)
– One of the following commands for concealing the secondary volume is executed:
– drmdevctl (with -detach option)
– drmumount
– EX_DRM_UMOUNT
– EX_DRM_CACHE_PURGE
– EX_DRM_TAPE_BACKUP
Recovery procedures
The procedures for recovering the changes performed by RAID Manager commands executed by
Application Agent internally are described as follows.
On the database server (file server), repeat the following procedure for all of the pair volumes
that are targets of Application Agent processing:
1. Confirm whether the primary volume does not allow INQUIRY.
PROMPT>raidvchkdsp –g Grp01 –d vol01 -v gflag
Group PairVol Device_File Seq# LDEV# GI-C-R-W-S PI-C-R-W-S R-Time
Grp01 vol01 Harddisk1 2332 3 D E E E E E E E E E –
Proceed to step 2 only if the value of the GI attribute is D (= INQUIRY is not allowed).
2. Release the INQUIRY of the primary volume.
PROMPT>raidvchkset –g Grp01 –d vol01 -idb
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