Keith, To do this accurately, it is necessary to build a kind of state map of sessions and processes and file/tape opens and closes. In the actlog, file/tape opens and closes are recorded with the volume name and linked to the session/process number that originated the request. (This session/process number can be tricky to trace back to a common node or process command. Proxies, LanFree, NDMP, etc. all add complexity.)
Look for ANR0510I and ANR0511I, ANR0513I and ANR0514I messages, selecting an appropriate period (24 hours?) Keep the records sorted by session/process number and date and time. Every time a session/process has a volume open, increment the open count- check for new high point. Every time a session/process has a volume close, decrement the open count. I suggest Perl and csv formatted actlog selects. Richard -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Monitor open volumes for a file deviceclass session To estimate the needed value for the 'numopenvolumesallowed' option for a deduplicated file deviceclass pool, the 6.3 Server Admin Reference Guide says to, " Monitor client sessions and server processes. Note the highest number of volumes open for a single session or process. Increase the setting of NUMOPENVOLSALLOWED if the highest number of open volumes is equal to the value specified by NUMOPENVOLSALLOWED." (page 1388) How does one see and correlate open volumes with sessions or processes on such a pool from within TSM? We're at server version 6.3.2 running on RHEL 5. Thank you, Keith Arbogast
