Veritas™ Volume Manager Administrator's Guide

Using the vxtask command

To list all tasks running on the system, use the following command:

# vxtask list

To print tasks hierarchically, with child tasks following the parent tasks, specify the -h option, as follows:

# vxtask -h list

To trace all paused tasks in the disk group mydg, as well as any tasks with the tag sysstart, use the following command:

# vxtask -g mydg -p -i sysstart list

To list all paused tasks, use the vxtask -p list command. To continue execution (the task may be specified by its ID or by its tag), use vxtask resume :

# vxtask -p list
# vxtask resume 167

To monitor all tasks with the tag myoperation, use the following command:

# vxtask monitor myoperation

To cause all tasks tagged with recovall to exit, use the following command:

# vxtask abort recovall

This command causes VxVM to try to reverse the progress of the operation so far. For example, aborting an Online Relayout results in VxVM returning the volume to its original layout.