HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring scripting guide (T2558-96074, February 2008)

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1 X Introduction

Introduction

Intended audience

The intended audience for the HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring

Scripting Guide is network administrators familiar with

Storage Mirroring features and functions and a working experience and knowledge of scripting.

This guide does not explain Storage Mirroring features and functions, only the scripting aspects of Storage Mirroring. For

details on the features and functions, see the Storage Mirroring User’s Guide.

Conventions used in this guide

The following conventions are used throughout this guide:

 Bold is used for items you click or select with the mouse, such as menu names and items, dialog box options, or button

names. For example, when you see

File, Options, you should select the File menu and then choose Options from the

pull-down menu.

 Green italics is used for cross-references to other sections or chapters in this guide.

 Code text is used to indicate text that is displayed on-screen exactly as shown (such as screen messages or error

messages) and text that should be entered exactly as shown, such as directories, file names, or URLs.

 Bold code text is used for Storage Mirroring commands.

 UPPERCASE letters indicate syntax that must be typed exactly as shown.

 Underlined letters can be used as a shortcut for the command.

 lowercase italized blue letters are variables such as file names, user names, or machine names.

 Angle brackets, < and >, surround required items that must be supplied with the command.

 Square brackets, [ and ], surround optional items that can be supplied with the command but are not required.

 The pipe character, |, separates items in a list.

 Identifiers that contain a space or non-alphanumeric characters must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example

"domain.com" or "machine name" or "129.65.35.45."

Resources

You have many resources available to you when using Storage Mirroring.

 Operating System and application documentation—Make sure that you have complete documentation for your

operating system and your applications.

NOTE:

You can specify an IP address or an IP address:port combination (separated by a colon) in place of a machine

name in any Storage Mirroring DTCL command that allows for the entry of a machine name. For example, all

of the following login commands are acceptable.

If you have modified your ports so that your source, target and/or clients are running on different ports and

you are using Storage Mirroring DTCL scripts, then you will need to modify the scripts to include the port

values as noted above. This only applies to source/target/client combinations that are communicating with each

other on different ports. It does not apply between combinations of source/target pairs of servers that are using

different ports.