It should mostly work on Windows as well. The only complication I see is in
running multiple dsmc/dsmcad processes as services. It might be that option
#1 would be easier, although I'm not a Windows expert.

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 04:18:51PM +0000, Lee, Gary wrote:
> Thanks for that.  Yes, this will work on linux / unix machines.
> However, windows is my big headache.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Skylar Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:17 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] running two distinct tsm client instances pointing to 
> two different servers on windows box
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> There's a couple ways to go about this:
>
> 1. Have a single SERVERNAME stanza in your dsm.sys file, talking to a
> single node on your TSM server. Setup two more nodes on your TSM server,
> and use GRANT PROXYNODE to allow the first node to talk to them. You will
> then use -ASNODE on the client side to select which node you wish to talk
> to. This has the drawback that you can only have one schedule running at
> any given time, so if a schedule runs long it could overlap with the start
> window of the next node.
>
> 2. Have two SERVERNAME stanzas in your dsm.sys file, with different
> NODENAME attributes. Configure one node per NODENAME attribute. Associate
> your schedules with these nodes, and run one "dsmc sched"/dsmcad
> process per stanza on the client side. This would allow you to have
> schedules for each node running concurrently.
>
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 04:11:25PM +0000, Lee, Gary wrote:
> > I need to do some testing where a client machine must be two distinct tsm 
> > nodes on different servers; or on the same server but a different domain.
> >
> > I've been playing with this, but can't seem to get it working.
> >
> > I want machine client-a backing up to one disk / tape combination, while 
> > its alter ego client-b backs up to another disk / tape combination on the 
> > same tsm server.
> >
> > Most clients will be windows, with a few linux thrown in.
> >
> > Any ideas would be helpful.
>
> --
> -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected])
> -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
> -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
> -- University of Washington School of Medicine

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