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horctakeover
Take ownership of a pair
CA only
Description
The horctakeover meta command (contains many sub-commands) is used
in conjunction with HA software, such as MC/Service Guard and CA. It
selects and executes one of four actions, depending on the state of the
paired volumes: nop-takeover, swap-takeover, SVOL-takeover, or
PVOL-takeover.
See “Takeover-switch function” on
for actions taken by
horctakeover
.
The table under the heading “HA control script state transitions” on
lists state transitions resulting from the execution of
horctakeover
in HA control scripts.
Note
Executing horctakeover in a cascaded CA environment will cause an
automatic suspend of the downstream CA Journal.
Syntax
horctakeover
{ –nomsg | –g group
| –d pair_vol | –d[g] raw_device
[MU#] | –d[g] seq# LDEV# [MU#] | –-h | –q
| –S | –l | –t timeout | –z | –zx }
Arguments
–nomsg
Suppresses messages to be displayed. It is used to
execute this command from a user program.
–g group
Specifies a group name in the RM instance
configuration file.
–d pair_vol
Specifies a paired volume name written in the
configuration definition file. The command executes
only for the specified paired volume.
–d
[g] raw_device [ MU# ]
(HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, MPE/iX, and
Windows NT/2000/2003 only)
Searches the RM
instance configuration file (local instance) for a volume
that matches the specified raw_device. If a volume is