Multiple stanza's are quite normal to use, think about TDP's. Did you tried a different client port number for each scheduler?
Regards, Maurice van 't Loo http://mvantloo.nl/ 2012/12/12 Ethan Günther <ethan.guent...@rz.uni-augsburg.de> > Dear List, > > for a client with large filespaces, we would like to split the backup up > into several nodes in order to balance the load. On the basis of the > TSM-client documentation we created several stanzas in the dsm.sys file > with different servername entries. In the init-script several dsmc > processes are started with the -servername option referring to those > stanzas. Now everything works fine with a 6.2.0.0 client (all processes > are started and are backing up as expected). > > On a very similar box with client version 6.2.4.4 something goes wrong: > Some dsmc processes are started successfully, some are not, the numbers > vary. So there could be some runtime condition. The error message > (printed on stdout) is: "/usr/bin/dsmc already running." > > Has anybody observed this issue and knows about a solution? > > Best regards, > > Ethan >