Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE FOR EVMS, Administration Manual

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2.6 Starting EVMS
If EVMS does not start during the system boot, you must activate it manually.
1 Open a terminal console, then log in as the
root
user or equivalent.
2 At the terminal console prompt, enter
evms_activate
2.7 Starting the EVMS Management Tools
Use the following procedure to start the EVMS management tools.
IMPORTANT: When you are done, make sure to exit the EVMS UI tool. When it is running, the
EVMS UI tool locks the EVMS engine, potentially blocking other EVMS actions from taking place.
1 Open a terminal console, then log in as the
root
user or equivalent.
2
Enter one of the following commands to open the desired EVMS UI:
To stop
evmsgui
from running automatically on reboot:
1 Close
evmsgui
.
2 Do a clean shutdown (not a restart).
3 Start the server.
When the server comes back up, evmsgui is not automatically loaded on reboot.
Command Description
evmsgui Starts the graphical interface for EVMS GUI. For information about features in
this interface, see
”EVMS GUI” (http://evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/#GUI)
in the EVMS User Guide at the EVMS project on SourceForge.net.
evmsn
Starts the text-mode interface for EVMS Ncurses. For information about
features in this interface, see the
“EVMS Ncurses Interface” (http://
evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/#NCURSES) in the EVMS User Guide at the
EVMS project on SourceForge.net.
evms
Starts the EVMS command-line interpreter (CLI) interface. For information
about command options, see
“EVMS Command Line Interpreter” (http://
evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/#COMMANDLINE) in the EVMS User Guide
at the EVMS project on SourceForge.net.