In the past our networking folks have setup some kind of QOS on the routers so that TSM traffic did not dominate. From what I remenber it was a ugly process for them to do.
From: Zoltan Forray <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 09/26/2012 10:46 AM Subject: Stopping backups from running during certain hours Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> *"Could you monitor the TSM sessions and ensure that if one is still going it it put on hold from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm during the work week."* Yes, the above sentence is what I have been tasked with. Some back-story........ We have some non-local nodes that often backup terabytes of data, thereby sometimes running for >16-hours and often many days. Unfortunately, due to their physical location and other networking issues, their traffic comes across a 10/100 connection. We recently had some "networking slowdowns" and someone noticed a large amount of traffic across this switch (never mind the problem was actually diagnosed to be a firewall problem....) ..... even-though this has been happening for a long, long time. So, TSM has become the whipping-boy for network related slowdowns (<2% of the TSM nodes are not local/on private GB connection) I am not aware of a server-side function/process that can kill a running backup (never-mind that a physical body will have to check active backup sessions and figure out which might cause problems) and stop the node from reconnecting almost immediately (unless something has changed, you can't update a node to lock it while it is active). Thoughts.....suggestions.......ideas......rants................ -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services [email protected] - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
