Well, to speak on that as well, we just had 8 new drives put into one of the libraries managed by this library manager. We were told by TSM that you are not able to just define new drives and paths to TSM because TSM is not going to recognize the element numbers. We had to recycle the library manager so that TSM would run an IOCTL and rescan the library and pick up the new drives.
Thanks, Sean English Data Protection Services - Production Control Wachovia Bank, A Wells Fargo Company Office: 704.590.7146 Cell: 704.281.0318 [email protected] TSM Sharepoint Teamsite Wells Fargo Confidential: The information transmitted is intended only for use by the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[email protected]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 07/08/2009 12:03 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way") Thanks for the "duh" suggestion. I know how to get into the CE mode to change the serial number and it would make life simpler. For this drive, since it was an "upgrade", this will work. However, for new drives with maintenance, I think they would frown on changing the serial #. I still would like to know how other folks handle it if they can't change the serial #. From: Sean English <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 07/08/2009 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way") Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Zoltan, The majority of our TSM servers are AIX and we do have a setup where we share multiple library clients with one library. When we have IBM CEs come out and replace drives, they just change the serial number on the new drive to match the old drive they are replacing. Apparently there is a way to do that on the drive itself. Thanks, Sean Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[email protected]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 07/08/2009 11:30 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way") I need thoughts/suggestions/help on how to deal with SAN attached tape drive replacements when a library is shared amongst 5-servers. We just has a drive replaced, therefore giving us a new serial number (3494ATL - TS1130). All servers that use these drives/libraries are RedHat Linux and use very current lin_tape drivers. Currently, the method we use is to bounce each server so the system rescans the SAN and gets the new serial number. In the past, just stopping the TSM server and then restarting the lin_tape driver would often be enough. Now with the latest lin_tape drivers, I don't see the lin_taped daemon running any more. Yes, I have tried updating the paths on the library manager server and telling it to autodetect but that didn't help. There has to be a better way! If you have a similar configuration, how do you handle this scenario?
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