Tivoli has sold so few copies of this that they have no justification to
develop the other options right now. I need the ESS/Solaris option. Maybe
the prevalence of SAN now will change this story. I will talk to the
product development manager again tomorrow about this issue.
-Original
Do you have ENABLELANFREE YES turned on?
-Original Message-
From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LAN Free backups
I am having some problems with the LAN Free backups. Server is 4.2.1.12
(Windows 2000),
What kind of HBA are you using in the client machine ?
What is the tape library ?
Has LAN-free ever worked on this node, or has it just gone wrong recently ?
If you say the backups are now going to a disk pool, then the mgnt class for
those files are not pointed at a tape pool. Apart from the
Hi,
we are using a 4.2.1 Client on a Machine running WinNT4 SP6a. The Client is
connected to an FC-Array containing approx. 1'000'000 files and 1'800'000
directories (growing). Since the TSM hangs the whole system when trying to
backup these files, I took a look on the memoy usage: the software
Hi all,
I have IBM LTO Autoloader 3581. I have configurred TSM Server 4.1.5 on the Sun Solaris system. I also updated the microcode to latest level which is vailable on IBM site i.e. Drive firmware Ver, 22U0 and Autoloader Firmware Ver. I106. When I start the TSM Server I am getting the following
Yes, the TSM Client (4.2.1.20 windows2000) has this in the dsm.opt file. I dont
believe there is an option for the storage agent to indicate LANFREE usage though.
-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wed 3/6/2002 3:52
Robert Clark and Carl Makin,
Many thanks for the tips.
We will stay waiting :-(((
Taketoshi Ide
Robert Clark wrote:
It might make sense to put efforts towards an ndmp client, and abandon
a TSM specifc effort entirely.
(Assuming TSM will be ndmp compatible at some point.)
Seems like you could use TSM event logging on the TSM server to send the
desired events to a FILETEXT receiver, and use Openview to monitor this
plain text file the way you're used to. There is information on this in
Chapter 20 of the Admin guide.
Alternatively, you could monitor the
The client can indeed consume a large amount of memory during the backup,
as it requests backup information from the server for all active backup
versions. Given your large file system, several hundred MB of memory
doesn't surprise me.
Try the 4.2.1.26 patch level, which includes a fix for
I've just installed TSM 4.1 Server on AIX 4.3.3 (IBM AIX F80) but when I tried this
command:
./dsmserv runfile /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/webimages/dsmserv.idl
I got the answer:
ANRE Unable to open language en_US for message formatting.
ANRE Unable to open message text file for message
Also, make sure you don't have your 'Anti-Virus' software running anytime
during the incremental backup, especially **MCAFEE**!
Regards,
Demetrius Malbrough
UNIX/TSM Administrator
-Original Message-
From: Bill Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:41 AM
Also, make sure you don't have your 'Anti-Virus' software running anytime
during the incremental backup, especially **MCAFEE**!
Regards,
Demetrius Malbrough
UNIX/TSM Administrator
-Original Message-
From: Sascha Askani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:42 AM
**DISREGARD LAST REPLY** I responded to the WRONG message SORRY!
-Original Message-
From: Bill Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monitoring ADSM backups using HP OpenView
Seems like you could use TSM
In a RAID5 environment, is there really any reason to Mirror the database and logs?
Regards,
Joe Wholey
TGA Distributed Data Services
Merrill Lynch
Phone: 212-647-3018
Page: 888-637-7450
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had this once also. The problem is a missing symbolic link. I wish I could remember
where, but I can't. It is somewhere in /usr/lib/nls, I think. I logged a support call
and it didn't take long to fix.
Miles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06-Mar-02 7:22:44 AM
I've just installed TSM 4.1 Server on AIX
Only if you want to put two RAID5 arrays on two different adapters to
prevent outage due to an adapter loss...
-Original Message-
From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mirroring DB and Log
In
Check that the NLSPATH environment variable looks like this:
NLSPATH=/usr/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N:/usr/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N.cat
Another application on your system may modify the NLSPATH.
Mike Haskins
Agway, Inc
-Original Message-
From: Stephan Boulinguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Not sure if this is related, but it is worth a READ!!!
APAR= IC28978 SER=IN INCORROUT
WEB ADMINISTRATOR IS NOT UPGRADED WHEN TSM SERVER IS UPGRADED
FROM 3.X-4.X OR 4.1.0.0-4.1.1.0.
Status: CLOSED Closed: 07/17/01
Apar Information:
thanks Bill. I've just discovered the dsmsched.log. Is the admin guide a
Redbook ? I currently have the TSM Concepts Redbook and the Implementation
Guide.
cheers
Alex
-Original Message-
From: Bill Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 06 March 2002 12:41
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Stephan
The problem is that you haven't installed the correct fileset for language
environment.
What you'll have to do is to install the fileset for language code
en_US(not EN_US or en_us).
This is most easily done by opening smitty mlang, selecting Add
additional language Environments,
yes it looks like this...
Stephan Boulinguez
- Original Message -
From: Haskins, Mike
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: ANRE with TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3
Check that the NLSPATH environment variable looks like this:
Also, make sure that file dsmserv.idl is in the
/usr/tivoli/tsm/server/webimages directory!
ls -l dsmserv.idl
-r--r--r-- 1 root system379950 Aug 22 2001 dsmserv.idl
-Demetrius
-Original Message-
From: Stephan Boulinguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06,
Hi
yes, I've installed the en_US package and I set the AIX language with smitty mlang
command. It seems to have solved my problem.
Thanks a lot,
Stephan Boulinguez
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stephan Boulinguez
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:56 PM
Hi Mark, the only problem is I don't have access to the Exchange box! which
is fine by me :-)
thanks
pc
-Original Message-
From: Remeta, Mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: occupancy by date
Hi Paul.
Current specs are:
Server: RS/6000, TSM 4.1.4.1, AIX 4.3.3
Client: TSM 4.1.4, AIX 4.3.3
Our vendor that supports the application running on this box wanted
shrdynamic for serialization to back a large comma delimited file. Even
though the management class associated with the file has
Does anyone has experience, i.e. right now, in using TSM for AS/400
backup's? Is there a simple way to do that and what is the performance?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (heard bad stories about BMRS and ADSM V3 API)
Greetings,
Sorry if this is a newbie question, but I have not been able to find
the answer in the manuals.
Say a TSM server has a disk storage pool with 5 volumes. When a
given client is backing up to a disk storage pool, will all his backup
data go to the same disk storage pool volume?
Hi
There is a API for AS/400, but it requires for example RoboSave to work.
We have a AS/400 backing up to TSM (NSM) and 3583. It works perfect, but
the IBM guys had to set up the AS/400.
---
Daniel Sparrman
Exist i Stockholm AB
Bergkällavägen 31D
192 79
No experience, but there's a (fairly) recent redpiece: Backup Recovery and
Media Services for OS/400 More Practical Information REDP0508.
_
William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc
Henk ten Have [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor
Late response, I'm afraid, but nonetheless true.
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:28:16 -0500, it was written:
And WHY do I have to call a DIFFERENT sales person for Tivoli software than
IBM software?
It's a different company.
And WHY do I have to have a DIFFERENT support contract for Tivoli software
If you go to the TSM web site:
http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage_mgr/
Click the fixes and client code link.
That takes you to a page where you can select your client/server platform,
and get a list of available server and client fix levels. These are the
fix levels that are
have tape storage pools defined wth default reclamation threshold set to 60%
some of these tape storage pools have been doing automatic reclamation ok
but a few others are not running reclamation
i cant seem to find the difference between the storasge pools
Tim Brown
Systems Specialist
I think, as usual, IT DEPENDS ON YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
The RAID5 prevents outage due to a disk failure.
But there is some exposure to other failures.
Your RAID5 controller can fail. And there is always that traditional
bugaboo of HUMAN failure - I always worry about some enthusiastic trainee or
excelent!
-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mirroring DB and Log
I think, as usual, IT DEPENDS ON YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
The RAID5 prevents outage due to a disk failure.
But there is
Henk,
This past summer we added 4 AS/400s to our TSM environment. We
are running TSM v 3.7.2 on AIX v4.3.3. Our Library is a SCSI connected
3575. There are redbooks out there with great information on setting up
your management class, and tips for setting up BRMS on the AS/400. We
We have one Netware TSM client that normally takes between 2 and 3 hours. Yesterday,
it indicated a normal backup of a file 2:20 and hung for almost 6 hours. The TSM
Server did not show a connection. Using Q to quit did not clear the TSM session.
03/05/2002 02:29:01 Normal File--
Maybe the storage pools don't have any tapes that meet criteria.
To check run this select statement:
select volume_name,pct_reclaim from volumes
where stgpool_name='STG' order by pct_reclaim
Put your stg pool name in place of 'STG and remember use upper case.
(Put command in one line, I just
I have two TSM 3.7.4.0 servers on MVS and several other 3.7.4.0 servers on AIX
getting
ANRD bfcreate.c(1346): Region 1: offset=0.0, length=0.2497. in the
activity logs.
I can't find any information in the tivoli knowledgebase specific to
bfcreate.c that mentions a message resembling this.
Hi tsm'ers,
does anybody know, if the tsm-(web)-client for linux (x86) can be configured for
using ssl-communication
and if not, is it planned for the next release???
thanks,
Jens Fornfeist
IDG mbh ,
That, Wanda, is a great explanation. Thank you.
-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mirroring DB and Log
I think, as usual, IT DEPENDS ON YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
The RAID5 prevents
Hi Dale!
I can't find anything either!
As far as I can see, you have two options: install 3.7.4.6. and iIf that
doesn't solve it: run an auditdb.
Good luck!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-Original Message-
From: Dale Jolliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Jon, thanks for your answers:
1 BRMS does all management and expiration of the files stored in TSM.
2 The backup times were extremely slow.
This doesn't look something you like to deal with...
In the end we removed the AS/400's from our environment. Someday
when we upgrade
Daniel,
We have a AS/400 backing up to TSM (NSM) and 3583. It works perfect, but
the IBM guys had to set up the AS/400.
Any idea what the IBM guys did set up? I don't suppose it's something
magic?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
Hi
I would like to know if is possible to check periodically a tape integrity.
That means a procedure read a little bit of the tape without use commands
like restore, retrieve, or movedata.
TIA !
This command will look for any tapes meeting a 50% reclaimable state.
Sub your devclass_name in for '3590'
select volume_name, pct_utilized, pct_reclaim, stgpool_name from volumes
where devclass_name
like '%3590%' and pct_reclaim50 order by
stgpool_name
Gabriel C. Wiley
ADSM/TSM
i have a particular tape in a storage pool
that is not being reclamed
Volume Name: A00044
Storage Pool Name: NT_TAPE
Device Class Name: NT3590
Estimated Capacity (MB): 98,244.1
Pct Util: 8.2
Volume
Hello, I'm migrating from ADSM 3.1.2.50 to TSM 4.2.1.0 running on an OS/390.
Windows NT clients are 3.1.0.8.
I've noticed that when I restore a file it converts the file name to upper
case. Does anyone know why is this done?
How can I avoid this conversion
Regards
Angel Antsn
IZFE. S.A.
Plaza
Can you cut paste the output from q stg stgpoolname f=d and also your OS
version levels of TSM please???
-Demetrius
-Original Message-
From: Tim Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: reclamation question
have tape
tsm audit volume volumename fix=no,yes
It will check for any inconsistencies between the db info the stgpool.
Also, you can do a tsm q content volname damaged=yes
Regards,
Demetrius Malbrough
UNIX/TSM Administrator
-Original Message-
From: Luciano Ariceto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Tim,
Occasionaly I will have a problem where a volume will show up as
reclaimable and it won't reclaim..
I will try and delete the volume discard=yes(volume being a offsite tape)
and it won't do it either.
I do an audit volume XX fix=yes to resolve the problem..
XXX= volser number.
So then, WHY do some Tivoli developers have @ibm.com in their email
addresses?
Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs
Mark
Stapleton
stapleto@BER To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
BEE.COM cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG)
I see in this message group about doing a query on the sessions/processes and if one
exists then to reschedule a schedule to check again later. I have been searching the
ADSM.SYS site with no luck. Could someone point me in the right direction???
Thanks
Joe
Here is what I would like to do:
Hello any SM'ers.
I have a client that is NT but has mostly Macintosh users on it. It
seems to back up at considerable slower speed than NT data. It is routed
on a Cat 6509 with fiber Gb line and the AIX node server has a GB (10/1000)
card with fiber to the Cat 6509. I am currently
i found the answer, the dev classes for my storage pools that
weren't reclaiming only had mountl=1
once i set them to mountl=2 thay started to reclaim
thanks
- Original Message -
From: David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:15 PM
NOT!!
Well, so Tivoli didn't want to ADMIT they were bought by IBM; it's still an
IBM comany!
The emperor has no clothes here!
They are just pretending! :)
-Original Message-
From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Probably like me...
I used to work for Amoco, then British Petroleum bought Amoco and then they
didn't want to have anything to do with computing (they are an oil company)
so they outsourced it to SAIC but (for the time being) I still have a bp.com
mail id (and an saic.com mail id)
-Original
I am testing for our migration to W2K and E2K. The proposal for our E2K
servers is clustered system with 4 Storage Groups and 4 DBs in each, should
total somewhere around 80 - 100 GB per E2K site. 4 sites in all. What I am
looking for:
1)
I have tested the Scheduler and utilizing the command
We love the ADSM tape library. It saves our butts all the time.
Only one small problem: we have 3 admin accounts set up in ADSM.
Occasionally the passwords for an admin account will be reset, deleted, or
something. Anyway, we can't logon to that account.
It seems to happen once a year or so,
And WHY do I have to call a DIFFERENT sales person for Tivoli software
than
IBM software?
It's a different company.
Actually, that is not true. Tivoli is NOT a different company.
We are all IBM. Tivoli software is a part of IBM Software Group.
As far as the issues with service... I am trying
A note on ibmlink vs tivoli for problem input.
It goes to the same database...just different front ends.
I found and spoke with the internet strategist for tivoli support
and showed him ibmlink. IBMLINK if far superior. I believe the reason
for the tivoli front end is that there's no ibmlink
Hello,
I want to upgrade an TSM-server version 3.1 (yeh it's old) to 4.2. Is it
possible to upgrade from 3.1 to 4.2 or should I have to go to 3.7 or 4.1
first.
Thanks,
Brian.
_
Chat on line met vrienden en probeer MSN Messenger
Tapes can also fail to reclaim in you have RESTARTABLE RESTORES hanging
around.
In this case you will find in the server actlog:
ANR1089W Space reclamation terminated for volume x -lock conflict.
From a server command line, do Q RESTORE.
You will see there are some restartable
Try:
update admin passexp=days
If days are blank or not set (q admin) then I believe it is 30 days. If set
to 0 then do not expire password.
Hope this helps
--
Phillip Ford
Senior Software Specialist
Corporate Computer Center
Schering-Plough Corp.
(901) 320-4462
(901) 320-4856 FAX
If you are using a 4.1 server (at least under AIX) make sure you set it to
non-null.
Otherwise your nodes will pick up the server expire days as the default.
I spent a few days trying to figure out why some netware nodes wouldn't
authenticate after 90 days...
If you want non-expiring passwords,
We love the ADSM tape library. It saves our butts all the time.
Only one small problem: we have 3 admin accounts set up in ADSM.
Occasionally the passwords for an admin account will be reset, deleted, or
something. Anyway, we can't logon to that account.
It seems to happen once a year or
Current specs are:
Server: RS/6000, TSM 4.1.4.1, AIX 4.3.3
Client: TSM 4.1.4, AIX 4.3.3
Our vendor that supports the application running on this box wanted
shrdynamic for serialization to back a large comma delimited file. Even
though the management class associated with the file has
Hello,
For some reason we have a system that have to back-up to different
TSM-servers in seperate locations.
Does anybody has any experience with the following:
one client-installation, two stanza's in dsm.sys, per stanza following
different settings: client-node-name or client IP-adres,
No, it is manually kicked off via a cron job setup by the vendor.
Bud Brown
Information Services
Systems Administrator
303-436-5986
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Denier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 12:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: shrdynamic
Q *
For some reason we have a system that have to back-up to different
TSM-servers in seperate locations.
Does anybody has any experience with the following:
one client-installation, two stanza's in dsm.sys, per stanza following
different settings: client-node-name or client IP-adres, IP-server
Servername SErvername
nodenameNodename
COMMMethod TCPip
TCPPort 1500
TCPServeraddressxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Schedlogname
Hello ADSMer's,
We are trying to decide on which LTO tape library to purchase for our UNIX /
NT environment. This library will be replacing a STK 9710 with DLT 7000
drives.
Our environment is:
TSM Server 4.2.1.11, on AIX 4.3.3 / Winterhawk node.
Clients range from 30+NT servers,
Looking for an SQL command that will show me nodes by management class. Can anyone
help?
Regards,
Joe Wholey
TGA Distributed Data Services
Merrill Lynch
Phone: 212-647-3018
Page: 888-637-7450
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I currently have three of the L700-380 w/ 8 DLT7000 drives. In the two years
we have had them I have had one robotic failure. That seemed to be due to a
possible shipping issue. I have had a couple of tape drive problems but
those were due to a bad lot of DLT tapes. The L700 jukebox itself seems
One of our client nodes was set up incorrectly. A datawarehouse was backing up 130 GB
nightly instead of monthly.
Is there a way of deleting individual backup sets (i.e. last night's, last week's,
etc.) like you can with deleting archive data, or is the only option to remove the
filespace
Do you mean by domain? Nodes don't have management classes, files do
-Original Message-
From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SQL command
Looking for an SQL command that will show me nodes
from the command
select * from syscat.tables
you can find a table called:
TABSCHEMA: ADSM
TABNAME: MGMTCLASSES
CREATE_TIME: 1996-04-25 14:31:19.025065
COLCOUNT: 12
INDEX_COLCOUNT: 3
UNIQUE_INDEX: TRUE
REMARKS: Management classes
then you can do:
tsm: ADSMselect *
Hi all,
I'm starting the TSM TSO client and I get this...
ANS8015E File 'DD:DSCOPT', error code 109 from options processing.
What gives?
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affiliate companies are not responsible for errors or omissions in this e-mail
message.
This actually isn't a very easy question to answer, and I'm not sure how
useful this data would be. Files from a single node can be bound to
multiple management classes, so you would have to check each file. If you
really want to let your TSM database grind away for a while, you can try
this,
Either it can't find this file, or there is an error in the file (just a
guess as I'm no TSO guy).
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax:
I find the best way to start TSM via TSO is to create a REXX pgm and
allocated the required DDs within the rexx. This is based on the belief
that the that the required DD's are rarely allocated in your TSO logon
proc due to the limitted number of peple requiring access to the server
line command.
HiI have experience in both L700, 3584 and 3583.Whats the reason for doing a combination of either 3584/3583 or L700/L80?The 3584 is probably the library that is easiest to install and manage. It is also the library that is most expandable(6 frames).The 3583 is as the 3584, very reliable.However,
If you want a copy of the presentation, please let me know.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180
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