Tips to troubleshoot the error message, "ERROR: IPC Failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible", when running regular Veritas Volume Manager commands.

The above mentioned error message means  either vxconfigd is not running or needs to be reset. First check to see if vxconfigd is running:
# ps -ef | grep vxconfigd

If it is not running (or it's running, but probably stuck),  then enter the following to start it
# vxconfigd -k -x syslog

While trying to start the vxconfigd daemon, it is possible to get error messages like these: cannot open /dev/vx/config or volboot file not loaded . In this case,  bring up VxVM manually as follows:

# vxiod set 10
# vxconfigd -m disable -x syslog
# vxdctl init
# vxdctl initdmp     (Use this if Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) certified arrays are being used.)
# vxdctl enable
 

Note: VxVM commands should now be available.  If the problem continues, please contact Veritas Technical Services.