Mark, The IBM Automatied Library Service is a tcp/ip application. The 3494 won't show up in Windows Device Manager, or the TSM management console, because there is no physical cable connection to the 3494 library manager; TSM talks to it via IP (usually). The device name you need for TSM is the name you created in the ibmatl.conf file. The other thing you have to do is go to the 3494 library maangement console, look for the LAN config screen, and put the IP address of the TSM server in there. (Essentially giving the Windows TSM server permission to access the 3494.) Then look in the driver user's guide for the mtlib utility. You use mtlib to talk to 3494 libraries, ntutil to talk to the drives. Open a CMD window, type: mtlib -qL -l libname (case sensitive: -qL is little q big L; -l libname is little l; libname is the name you created in ibmatl.conf) If your connection is working, you'll get back the library info such as # of slots, serial#, and a page full of stuff you don't care about. But it proves your connection is working.
________________________________ From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Mark Stapleton Sent: Tue 2/13/2007 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Big fun with Windows 2003 and IBM 3494 libraries Well, I figured out why the ibmatl install seemed to hang. The ibmatl.readme text file comes up during the install, and the install won't finish until you close the text file. No documentation on this little gotcha, either. Sigh. Now I'm trying to figure out whether the server is talking to the library. (I know I'm talking to the tape drives.) I edited the ibmatl.conf file and started the IBM Automated Library service. It would appear from the lmcpd.log that the connection is successful (also from the 3494a_atl.log), but I'm not seeing the device in the Device Manager, or in the Devices Information stanza in the TSM management console. I don't know the ntutil utility very well; does anyone know how to find the device name for the library using that? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior consultant
