The Volume Manager configuration daemon, vxconfigd, is responsible for maintaining configurations of disks and disk groups in the VERITAS Volume Manager. vxconfigd takes requests from other utilities for configuration changes, and communicates those changes to the kernel and modifies configuration information stored on disk. vxconfigd is also responsible for initializing the Volume Manager when the system is booted.
vxconfigd -k is used if the daemon is hung. This will kill the existing daemon and restarts. Killing the old vxconfigd and starting a new one should not cause any problems for volume or plex devices that are being used by applications or that contain mounted file systems.
vxconfigd is the heart of VxVM. It should be running for vxvm to work. Thanks for sharing this.
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