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Adding or deleting storage systems

Adding or deleting hosts

Adding or deleting copy pairs using the CLI

For storage controlled by a remote instance of Device Manager, a manual refresh can be performed
at any time as described in

Refreshing configuration information manually for each information

source

” on page 267, or it can be refreshed automatically.

Refresh operations for remote instances of Device Manager

The automatic refresh of configuration information for remote instances of Device Manager is controlled
by to two types of settings:

Automatic updating in conjunction with storage systems refresh operations

Periodic updating based on a specified refresh interval

Replication Manager allows you to use either one or both of the above settings to automatically refresh
configuration information associated with remote instances of Device Manager. In the initial settings
of Replication Manager, the automatic update setting is enabled and the periodic update setting is
disabled.

TIP:

The configuration might be updated often if both settings are enabled. Therefore HP recommends that
if you want to enable the periodic update setting, you disable the automatic update setting.

Automatic refreshing

When automatic refreshing of configuration information is enabled, Replication Manager regularly
checks whether remote Device Manager servers registered as information sources have refreshed
their storage systems configurations, then synchronizes the Device Manager and Replication Manager
databases.

You can enable or disable this automatic refresh by setting the

base.repositry.synchronize.polling

property in the

base.properties

file on the

management server. When this property is set to

true

, these two parameters go into effect:

base.repositry.synchronize.interval

: the monitoring interval at which regular checks

for storage refresh are performed.

base.repositry.synchrocheck.interval

: the interval at which a message is displayed

if configuration information is not synchronized.

For details on these properties, see the HP P9000 Replication Manager Software Configuration Guide.

TIP:

Replication Manager does not regularly check whether instances of HP StorageWorks P9000 for
Business Continuity Manager Software or P9000 mainframe agent registered as information sources
have refreshed their storage systems configurations. When a storage system managed exclusively by
HP StorageWorks P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software is refreshed, the information is
provided by HP StorageWorks P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software or P9000 mainframe
agent.

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