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Raid manager features and environment, Raid manager features and environment 16 – HP XP RAID Manager Software User Manual

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HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP RAID Manager: User’s Guide

RAID Manager features and environment

RAID Manager lets you issue Business Copy (BC) and Continuous Access
(CA) commands from a host. These commands can be issued from the
command line or built into a script (for example, a ksh, perl script, or an
MS-DOS batch file).

You can execute a large number of BC and CA commands in a short period
of time by using scripts containing RM commands. In MPE/iX, you can
create POSIX command scripts. For more information about scripting, see
“RAID Manager commands in scripts”

(page 59)

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RM also provides failover and operation commands that can support
mutual hot standby when used with industry-standard failover software.

RM software consists of the following:

• RM instances (daemons)

• configuration files

• BC/CA commands and shell scripts

RM uses these entities:

• a special volume called a command device

• BC/CA volumes

RM runs in these (and other) environments

:

UNIX

RM runs on a UNIX host as the HORCM
daemon.

Windows NT/2000/2003 RM runs on a Windows NT/2000/2003 host as

a service.

MPE/iX

RM runs in MPE/iX as a job stream. See
Appendix E,

“Porting notice for MPE/iX”

.

OpenVMS

RM runs on OpenVMS as a detached process.
See Appendix F,

“Porting notice for

OpenVMS”

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