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george77
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16 years ago

How Can I Disable DMP?

I have a customer who installed HDLM along with Storage Foundation 5 on a Solaris 10 server.  Not surprisingly, they had issues.  Now they want to keep HDLM and Volume Manager but disable DMP.  While...
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  • Rick_Stallcop's avatar
    Rick_Stallcop
    16 years ago
    DMP is not an optional component in the 5.0 release so it is no longer possible to completely disable DMP.

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    Rick Stallcop
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george77
Level 2
16 years ago
Excluding with vxdmpadm creates entries in the /etc/vx/vxdmp.exclude file, so those changes are persistent.  I was looking to see if there was another way to completely disable DMP so it would not be necessary to update the exclude list if the host recognized disks on another controller.