HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Installation and Configuration User Guide (T1610-96046, August 2012)

Creating/editing the configuration definition file

The configuration definition file is a text file that is created and edited using any standard text

editor (for example, UNIX vi editor, Windows Notepad). The configuration definition file defines

correspondences between the server and the volumes used by the server. There is a configuration

definition file for each host server. When the RAID Manager software starts up, it refers to the

definitions in the configuration definition file.

The configuration definition file defines the devices in copy pairs, including Business Copy,

Continuous Access Synchronous (Cnt Ac-S), Snapshot, and Continuous Access Journal (Cnt Ac-J)

pairs, and is used for host management of the copy pairs. Business Copy and Snapshot use the

same configuration files and commands, and the RAID storage system determines if a pair is

Business Copy or Snapshot based on the S-VOL characteristics.

There are following sections in the configuration definition file:

• HORCM_MON: Defines information about the local host.

• HORCM_CMD: Defines information about the command (CMD) devices.

• HORCM_DEV or HORCM_LDEV: Defines information about the copy pairs.

• HORM_INST: Defines information about the remote host.

• HORCM_LDEVG: Defines information about the device group.

A sample configuration definition file, HORCM_CONF (/HORCM/etc/horcm.conf), is included

with the RAID Manager software. This file should be used as the basis for creating your configuration

definition file(s). The system administrator should make a copy of the sample file, set the necessary

parameters in the copied file, and place the file in the proper directory.

The following table lists the parameters defined in the configuration file and specifies the default

value, type, and limit for each parameter. For details about parameters in the configuration file,

see the manual HP XP P9000 RAID Manager User Guide. See Table 12 (page 40) for detailed

descriptions of configuration definition files for sample RAID Manager configurations.

Table 12 Configuration (HORCM_CONF) parameters

LimitTypeDefaultParameter

64 charactersCharacter stringNoneip_address

15 charactersCharacter string or numeric valueNoneService

NoneNumeric value1000poll (10 ms)

See

NoneNumeric value3000timeout (10 ms)

See

31 charactersCharacter stringNonedev_name for

HORCM_DEV

31 charactersCharacter stringNonedev_group

Recommended value = 8 char.

or less

31 charactersCharacter stringNoneport #

7 charactersNumeric valueNonetarget ID

See

7 charactersNumeric valueNoneLU#

See

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