Veritas™ Volume Manager Administrator's Guide

Suppressing or including devices for VxVM or DMP control

The vxdmpadm exclude command suppresses devices from VxVM or DMP based on the criteria that you specify. The devices can be added back into VxVM or DMP control by using the vxdmpadm include command. The devices can be included or excluded based on VID:PID combination, paths, controllers, or disks. You can use the bang symbol (!) to exclude or include any paths or controllers except the one specified.

# vxdmpadm exclude [vxvm | vxdmp] { all | product=VID:PID | 
ctlr=[\!]ctlr | dmpnodename=diskname [ path=\!pathname] }

# vxdmpadm include [vxvm | vxdmp] { all | product=VID:PID | 
ctlr=[\!]ctlr | dmpnodename=diskname [ path=\!pathname] }

where:

all - all devices

product=VID:PID - all devices with the specified VID:PID

ctlr=ctlr - all devices through the given controller

dmpnodename=diskname - all paths under the DMP node

dmpnodename=diskname path=\!pathname - all paths under the DMP node except the one specified.