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Veritas Powerfail Timeout Setting in HP Unix

Veritas Powerfail Timeout setting (vxpfto or pfto) for HP-UX on a Storage Area Network environment Volume Manager uses TIMEOUT in its Powerfail Timeout (pfto) feature. You can specify a timeout value for individual Volume Manager disks using the vxdisk command. What is vxpfto or pfto? pfto (Individual Volume Manager disks): EXAMPLES Use the following command to set the value of pfto to 60 seconds on disk01: vxdisk set disk01 pfto=60 vxpfto (All disks in a volume or disk group): Powerfail Timeout is an attribute of a SCSI disk connected to an HP-UX host. The vxpfto command sets the Powerfail Timeout interval on a set of Volume Manager disks, either all disks in a disk group, or all disks underlying the volumes listed. EXAMPLES Set the pfto value on all disks in disk group testdg to 100 seconds: vxpfto -t 180 -g testdg Set the pfto value to 50 seconds on all disks underlying volume01 and volume02 in disk group testdg: vxpfto -t 50 -g testdg volume01 volume02 Set the pfto value to 300 sec...