Re: Question about database fragmentation

If your system is at all large, fragmentation is just a way of life. After a while, it will not get any worse. Except when you do a lot of filespace deletions at once, as Paul Seay said, or if expiration breaks for a while and is then repaired, it will get out of kilter, but that is a

Re: Space reclamation runs, but tapes don't free up

You can find it documented in the back of the Admin. Reference. I did an audit before upgrading from 4.1.1.5 to 5.1.1.2 and I had to do it again on 5.1.1.6. So if you are going to do an audit, I would recommend waiting until you are on 5.1.1.6 On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Johnn D. Tan wrote: Paul:

Re: Question about database fragmentation

Thanks to everyone who replied to this. Most helpful indeed. Farren :) Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:        ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:        Re: Question about database fragmentation If your

Re: Off site copy with one drive???

Sorry, I used before some of these softwares and except the fact that they don't use tape-tape copies, they aren't from my point of view better solutions than TSM, even for small companies. What I saw with another software is that each time I was not in office for some times (2 or 3 weeks), when

Re: bad tapes

Hi, 1) Yes. We have had a couple of scsi tapedrive/card and cabling problems which resulted in TSM thinking that there were problems which the tape. 2) select volume_name, stgpool_name, write_errors, read_errors from volumes where write_errors0 or read_errors0 gives you al the tapes. Doing

Re: 4.2.3 Server Soon.

I would recommend to wait next week for the 4.2.3 server release. it's a very stable version and fixes many issues. a lot of work has gone into it. the guys from developement have done a really good job. Cordiali saluti Gianluca Mariani Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma Via Sciangai 53,

Re: Help setting up a MS cluster

Hi Bruce I've run into this a couple of times, usually because (1) the installation of the service was incorrect, or (2) because password registry key is missing. If (1) - You could try to remove the Scheduler Service which is failing, and reinstall it (dsmcutil remove /dsmcutil install

Event Status mail

Hi Is there a way to mail the result of server backups.I can always check with q event command but i like to have a mail to my e-mail ID after the completion of each schedule.Need help on this. Regards Raghu S Nivas Consultant - TSM DCM Data Systems Ltd New Delhi India. e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Event Status mail

i get e-mail from my server but it is a aix one. if you want i can send this little script that using sendmail. regards, burak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03.10.2002 12:51 Please respond to ADSM-L

Re: bad tapes

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:11:39PM -0500, Alexander Lazarevich wrote: 1) is there any scenareo where a tape is still good, yet the server sets it to READ ONLY? If you have a hardware failure on one of your drives it can mark all tapes that is mounted in it as READONLY. Happend to me once or

client does everything but backing up or archiving

We have a client on MVS O/E wich worked fine till last weekend (there was an upgrade of the MVS (2.10 -Z/OS 1.1) and now the client can do everything but backup or archive. All Query's and restores work. The client hangs (when incremental, selective or archive is started) and on the server you

Re: Event Status mail

I am exactly looking for the same.Please send me the script Thanks in advance Regards Raghu S Nivas Consultant - TSM DCM Data Systems Ltd New Delhi India. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Event Status mail

my tsm server is z/os and i have set up a batch job that redirects tsm querys to a file that is then emailed what platform is you tsm server - Original Message - From: Raghu S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:39 AM Subject: Event Status mail

Re: Event Status mail

Can you send it to me too ... T.I.A Regards Robert Ouzen Computing Division Haifa University Israel E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Raghu S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Event Status mail I

Re: Event Status mail

I just have to say in response to all this interest in query events ... it has problems. You can have an event that says Completed, but you didn't get a backup (the TDP script started, but then failed later.) You can have an event that says Missed, but you DID get a backup (operations or the

Re: Event Status mail

Hi, Please could you send me a copy as well...my TSM server is on Windows 2000 with 5 aix clients (db2/sap r3) Thanks . Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: Event Status mail

can u please send the script to me also... TIA Regards Praveen.K -Original Message- From: Burak Demircan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Event Status mail i get e-mail from my server but it is a aix one. if you

Re: 4.2.3 Server Soon.

Thanks for the feedback. Good to know someone here knows what is going on ! However, I have a question about this update/upgrade. In another conversation about upgrades gone bad, after they jumped from 4.1.3 to 4.2.2.12, things fell apart big-time. IBM told them they should have gone to

UPDATE Help setting up a MS cluster

I have tried both suggestions but neither has worked. I even tried completely removing all services uninstalling the 5.1.1.5 client going back to the 5.1.1.0 client. I have tried deleting the password out of the registry but nothing seems to be able to update the password. The password always

TSM: DB Best Practises ?

Hi There, Been monitoring the list the last couple of weeks. Seeing as we are relatively new to the world of TSM. I havent come across this (yet) in any of the admin / installation / user guides but I woudl like to know if there is a best practises w.r.t maintaining our tivoli server. (this is

Re: Event Status mail

Please send me a copy of the script. My TSM servers are AIX. Thanks in advance! -Michael -Original Message- From: Burak Demircan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Event Status mail i get e-mail from my server but

R: Event Status mail

And to me too, thanks Nicola Morello Primeur Tel. +39 041 5950998 Fax. +39 041 5951024 -Messaggio originale- Da: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di Praveen Kumar K (TSE-IFT-ITPL) Inviato: Thursday, October 03, 2002 2:13 PM A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto:

Re: TSM: DB Best Practises ?

Answer to second question: use: query content x where xxx is the volume_name Clarence Beukes Advisory IT Specialist - Tivoli Certified Consultant Geomar SSO Mid Range and Application Support Discipline Location: IBM Park Sandton, IA2G Tel: +27 (0) 11 302-6622 Cell: +27

Re: Event Status mail

here is the simple aix shell script. it parses (?) and (progressive) states, too. then it simply mailx the result to any admin you like.  DONT FORGET to change /etc/sendmail.cf file to use mailx. You need to change like beginning DS. (It is for relaying your mails) mine is:

aix scirpt for result

do not forget to edit password part of the script. You will see XX's there. Regards, Burak

Re: 4.2.3 Server Soon.

Zoltan, You can go straight to 4.2.3.0 when available as this will incorporate all previous fixes Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/03/2002 01:22:13 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject:

TDP 2.2 with Solaris 64 bit Oracle 32 bit

Hi All, I cannot join the tape media with RMAN. The TDP 2.2 is running on Solaris 2.7 64 bit and Oracle 8.16.3.0 32 bit. I have tried the two Tivoli lib, the one for a 64 bit configuration and the other for a 32 bit configuration. None of them is working.

Re: DB Best Practises ?

Hi Riaan, Welcome to our 'world'... your short list covers the essentials, although the extra TSM snapshot I would deem unnecessary. I'll let a. n. other bod(s) chat about other approaches.. You cannot load in a tape and expect TSM to read it and know what to do with it. The TSM database tracks

Re: TSM: DB Best Practises ?

Hi Riaan, I would like to share with you my experience here. I have seen how people administering TSM server forget how important is to have planned the AUDITDB. Just one week ago, one of our customers HAD TO execute an audit db after 3 years of not to do it. That causes the TSM server had to

IA32 TSM servers up to it?

Architecturally, Intel based servers have gone a long way in the last couple years to close the gap on their RISC server counterparts. Can they handle the load though? We have a lot of Intel servers deployed in our organization, but none of them are running anything that you could consider the

Re: how to add tape to library?

okay, i think this is my problem, because im doing every command correct and im still getting: ANR8335I 022: Verifying label of 3570 volume 3121CF in drive TAPEDRIVE2 (/dev/rmt0). ANR8353E 022: I/O error reading label of volume in drive TAPEDRIVE2 (/dev/rmt0). so how do i upgrade to the most

Re: TDP 2.2 with Solaris 64 bit Oracle 32 bit

We have a couple servers running the following: Solaris 2.8 64-bit Oracle 8.1.7, release 3 32-bit TDP 2.2 32-bit In all cases, by installing the latest patch set for TDP we have eliminated all problems and can perform all RMAN functionality. Make sure that you have the correct patch levels for

Please help script for library.

All- I looking fro script that will monitor tsm library when TSM server is a started and if library does not come up halt and start .dsmserv again till library comes up. Thanks. Balanand Pinni SBC Services Inc. Work:314-206-5911 Pager:1-800-451-6897 Email ID :[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: UPDATE Help setting up a MS cluster

Have you tried force password reset. Update node, leave the password field blank and put the check in the YES force password reset click finish. wait a couple of minutes. Update node and fill in password then click finish. Open the TDP client and it should prompt for Node name and password.

Station restrict Netware client

Server win 2k 5.1.1 client Netware 4.2 4.2.2 tsm client Problems: 1) I'm unable to use a station restricted netware user (restricted to the server node where the client is installed). An unrestricted user in the servers' nds context works fine. 2) I'm unable to use a fully qualified NDS

Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

Great script for hunting down problem children backing up the wrong stuff! At our site we have a lot of archives being pushed from hosts, so I changed BACKUP to ARCHIVE and I get some great summary stats. Kudos to Miles for a very helpful script. The one I was using to get this

Copy Serialization Dynamic Impact

Hey all, In setting up our TSM server, we've noticed that many clients have large sessions because they have been re-transmitting files that are changing. We had the Copy Serialization set to Shared Dynamic CHANGINGRETRIES=4. We then bumped CHANGINGRETRIES down to 1. At this

Re: TSM: DB Best Practises ?

There is a great Redbook which you should be able to find by searching for: getting started with tsm On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Riaan Louwrens wrote: Hi There, Been monitoring the list the last couple of weeks. Seeing as we are relatively new to the world of TSM. I havent come across this (yet)

Re: TSM 5.1 license registration failed?

Dan, look out carefully in 'q lic' output: Number of Managed System for LAN in use: 1 Number of Managed System for LAN licensed: 0 This ought to explain everything. Try 'reg lic file=mgsyslan.lic number=# of nodes you expect' Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Dan Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: IA32 TSM servers up to it? When will TSM Server for Linux be available?

It's apparently out now. We are at the mercy of Tivolis blindingly fast distribution network. On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 06:48, West Suhanic wrote: Hello All: Any idea when the TSM server for Linux on an IA32 box will be available? regards, west

Cancel session - postschedulecmd run?

Can anyone confirm that if a scheduled session is cancelled by an administrator via the cancel session command, that the postschedulecmd for the node is always run? For a multi-session client, does it matter which session you cancel? Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg

Re: TSM 5.1 license registration failed?

Hot Diggety! Zlatko Krastev/ACIT was rumored to have written: look out carefully in 'q lic' output: Number of Managed System for LAN in use: 1 Number of Managed System for LAN licensed: 0 This ought to explain everything. Try 'reg lic file=mgsyslan.lic number=# of nodes you expect' D'oh.

Re: Restoring MSCS cluster node

Hi Jim: Which redbook procedure are you referring to - I can't find one specifically mentioning how to do a bare metal restore of a cluster db. Krzysztol mentions not restoring the clusterdb as part of the systemobject restore - is this the proper procedure for restoring one node? You mention

Re: Upgrade from TSM 4.1 to 4.2

Take a look at the AIX Quick Start Guide available on the Tivoli web site www.tivoli.com/tsm -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL

Re: Consolidating disk/tape pools

Having a fewer number of storage pools makes managing the TSM server a bit easier from a sys admin standpoint. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831)

include-exclude list for Windows NT and Windows 2000

Hi, I'm sure that this question has been answered already in the past, but I'm looking for a good include - exclude list for Windows NT and for Windows 2000 clients. What about the contents of the excluded files (eg c:\winnt\...\sam.log). Can they be retrieved from the registry backup, event

Re: TSM: DB Best Practises ?

Rafael Mendez wrote, in part: Hi Riaan, I would like to share with you my experience here. I have seen how people administering TSM server forget how important is to have planned the AUDITDB. Just one week ago, one of our customers HAD TO execute an audit db after 3 years of not to do it.

Re: Station restrict Netware client

Doug, In order to back up you need both tsa410 and tsands, usually loaded in the autoexec.ncf. If an unrestricted user works then you should be able to use that ID to authenticate and run your incr (as long as it has admin rights). Or am I missing something? Normally the syntax is

TDP for SAP R/3 on Solaris

Is anyone using the TDP for SAP R/3 3.2.0.11 on Solaris 2.8 with Oracle 8.1.7 at SAP 4.6c2? No matter what we do we seem to have serious problems with restores and difficulty implementing the TDP in production. The restores hang about half way through. Backups usually work. We are just at

TSM 5.1 client error

Hi, We're looking at upgrading server clients to V5.1 So far, we've installed the server client on an RS6000 running AIX 4.3.3 The server is working fine if I use a 4.2 client from another server but if I use the 5.1 client installed on the same box as the TSM server, I get the following

Re: Consolidating disk/tape pools

I will comment on the tape combining. There are 3 or 4 primary tape pools. It did not have to be that way. You could have used the same primary tape pool for all of the disk storage pools. However, when reclamation occurs to my knowledge it will not move primary data from one storage pool to

Re: TDP for SAP R/3 on Solaris

Hot Diggety! Seay, Paul was rumored to have written: Is anyone using the TDP for SAP R/3 3.2.0.11 on Solaris 2.8 with Oracle 8.1.7 at SAP 4.6c2? Not I, unfortunately. No matter what we do we seem to have serious problems with restores and difficulty implementing the TDP in production. The

Re: TSM 5.1 client error

Hot Diggety! Mavis Jenkins was rumored to have written: So far, we've installed the server client on an RS6000 running AIX 4.3.3 The server is working fine if I use a 4.2 client from another server but if I use the 5.1 client installed on the same box as the TSM server, I get the following

Re: how to add tape to library?

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich okay, i think this is my problem, because im doing every command correct and im still getting: ANR8335I 022: Verifying label of 3570 volume 3121CF in drive TAPEDRIVE2 (/dev/rmt0). ANR8353E 022: I/O

Re: Copy Serialization Dynamic Impact

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Walters The TSM Admin User guide warns that this can result in a 'fuzzy copy'. Has anyone had a negative experience with fuzzy copies? Occasionally. You need to get good copies of your data. You can either 1) shut down

Re: IA32 TSM servers up to it? When will TSM Server for Linux be available?

Hello All: Any idea when the TSM server for Linux on an IA32 box will be available? regards, west