How to determine what HORCM instances are running.

Our environment grew quite a bit over the past time so now we have too many arrays and relationships between then and it was getting out of control. We had to come up with a standardization. We came up with a logical way of getting our horcm instances numbered and we chose a 3 digit horcm number in the format ABC

Digit Function Comments
a Site Development - Production - UAT - etc
b Array We have multiple arrays b
c funtion what is the horcm used for

 

So for the first digit - site

Digit Site
0 DEV
1 PROD
2 UAT
3 QA

Second digit - array

Digit Array Type SN
0 USPV 1234
1 VSP 2341
2 VSP G1000 2311
3 VSP G1000 11111

our "function" actually looked like this

digit function
0 TC PVOL
1 TC SVOL
2 HUR PVOL
3 HUR SVOL
4 SI PVOL
5 SI SVOL
6 TI PVOL
7 TI SVOL
8 NOT IN USE
9 RAIDCOM / CCI use

 

As you can see we allocated the first 5 digits to out-of-system replication and the last 5 to in-system replication. Also, the even digits are reserved for PVOL's while the odd digits are reserved for SVOL's

It make things easier as now we know exactly so a number like 231 would refer to site 2 (UAT in our case), array 3 (g1000 sn 11111), tc svol.

 

However, one question came up a lot. How can we tell what horcm instances are running and wicth one are not. Turns out the answer is really simple.

 

When you start a hormc instance by horcmstart xxx there is a new process called horcm_xxx generated that resides in memory.

In unix, you just need to run a ps -ef | grep horcm and you would see something like this

horcmunix

and in windows you just need to look up at the processes either using Get-Process horcm* or you can run a select on it as well via Get-Process horcm* | Select-Object name, id.

 

Please note that these commands in Windows are Powershell commands so when you open a command prompt do not run the CMD process. Instead, press the start menu then type powershell and enter. A CMD like window will appear that will allow you to enter powershell commands.

 

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