HP Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software User Manual

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default=2

When LILO or ELILO is used as the boot loader:
Specify label for default.

default=sd-HDLM_194.EL

If LILO is being used as the boot loader, execute the /sbin/lilo

command to have the changes take effect.

Shut down the host.
Execute the following command to shut down the host:

# shutdown -h now

Change the configuration from a multi-path configuration to a single-path

configuration.

Start the host.

Execute the mount command to make sure that the SCSI device is

mounted.
The following shows an execution example for when GRUB is used as the

boot loader:

# mount

/dev/sda2 on / type ext2 (rw)

/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)

/dev/sda4 on /tmp type ext2 (rw)

/dev/sda5 on /var type ext2 (rw)

/dev/sda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)

none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

Check the underlined section.

If Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server is used,

make sure that the SCSI device is allocated to the swap partition.
Make sure that the SCSI device name is displayed in the Filename

column of the /proc/swaps file.

, perform steps 2 to 12 to create an

HDLM device. You will also need to perform step 13 if you are only

restarting the host. Note that the procedure differs depending on whether

the host is restarted after installation.

Execute the dlmcfgmgr utility with the -v parameter specified to check

the correspondence between the SCSI device and the HDLM device.

# dlmcfgmgr -v

HDevName Management Device Host Channel Target Lun

/dev/sddlmaa configured /dev/sda 0 0 0 0

KAPL10302-I /sbin/dlmcfgmgr completed normally.

The HDevName column indicates the HDLM device, and the Device column

indicates SCSI device.

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