HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.6.1-00 Administrator Guide (Web Version)

• If you have installed the Device Manager agent and then upgraded the host OS under any of the
following conditions, perform an overwrite installation of the Device Manager agent:
• Upgrading Solaris from a version earlier than 9 to version 9 or later
• Upgrading AIX from a version earlier than 5.2 to version 5.3 or later
• Upgrading HP-UX from a version earlier than 11i v2 to version 11i v2 or later
• If the OS of the host is Windows, the Device Manager agent will not acquire data from devices
assigned the drive letter A or B. Assign a drive letter from C to Z for a device managed by the
Device Manager agent.
• If you change a device file name by using the rendev command on a host whose OS is AIX 7.1
or AIX 6.1 TL6 or later, the new device name must be specified by using printable ASCII characters
only. If a character other than a printable ASCII character is included in the name, the Device
Manager agent will not work properly.
• To execute Device Manager agent commands other than hdvm_info, you must be a member of
the Administrators group or a superuser.
• When using one of the following OSs on the host, execute Device Manager agent commands
from the WOW64 command prompt:
Windows Server 2003 R2 (x64)
Windows Server 2008 (x64 and IPF)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64 and IPF)
Windows Server 2012 (x64)
Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
The following shows an example of executing from the command prompt:
C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
• In Windows, the folder in which the Device Manager agent commands are installed is automatically
added to the environment variable PATH. When you execute a command, you do not need to
change the current folder to the folder that contains commands.
• If you attempt to register a Linux host that recognizes 256 or more LUNs in a storage system, the
attempt will fail with error message KAIC03006-E.
If the OS of a host managed by the Device Manager agent is Linux, make sure that the number
of LUs that the host recognizes does not exceed 256 per port. Also, make sure that the LUNs are
in the range from 0 to 255.
Specifying the Device Manager agent environment settings
Before you can start running the Device Manager agent, you must specify the necessary environment
settings.
Specify the following settings as necessary:
• Settings for changing the Java execution environment (Windows or Linux)
You must specify these settings if you change the Java execution environment used by the Device
Manager agent.
• Registering firewall exceptions (Windows)
You must specify these settings if you enable Windows Firewall after the Device Manager agent
has been installed or if you change the port used by the Device Manager agent.
• Registering a Java process in SED as an exception (AIX)
You must perform this registration if you change the SED mode to all after the Device Manager
agent has been installed.
Using the Device Manager agent226