Re: Reducing SCSI timeouts?
If any of the hardware guys are listening, it is a complete bear that
the tapeutil functions of ITDT require root access. The old tapeutil
didn't. Enterprise shops such as the one I work in are completely
paranoid and will not give out root access to non-OS admins except under
extremely limited circumstances, and with a good deal of bureaucratic
form filling and multiple approvals. Those same shops have also been
known to penny-pinch in the past and not purchase the extra-cost Web
Server option on libraries. Combine that with a datacentre many
hundreds of miles from where the admin is and operators whose expertise
amounts to being able to open the CAP on a library and remove the tapes
and you have an ironclad case for the old way of doing things.
Please, make this change.
Thanks
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin, not trusted by the Unix team
Canberra Australia
On 5/07/2012 7:53 PM, Stout, Susie (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote:
Another suggestion: send your commands directly to the hardware. We also have
LTO4s (and AIX); I use tapeutil, which comes with the device drivers; you can
do most anything with the line commands, including FSF (forward space file),
eject a tape, etc.; I often use it to move a cart to/from slot/door ports.
Tapeutil is sunsetted and may not be available; IBM now offers ITDT which I am
not using -- it apparently comes with some kind of GUI; here's my notes on
others' contributions to the List re ITDT, though I've not installed it myself:
ITDT notes:
to download:
Go to http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral IBM Fix Central / portal to
downloads
use these pull-down menus to get to the correct download as follows:
1. In the first pull down menu labeled Product Group select Storage Systems
2. In the next pull down menu that appears which is labeled Product Family select
Tape Systems
3. With the next pull down menu, Product Type, select Tape Device Drivers and
Software
4. This will in turn bring up the Product menu
1). This menu allows you to select the ITDT
2). Platform: select your operating system (generic: ie. Linux) and will
show all device drivers for that platform
3). The next screen allows narrowing the search if needed; click Continue
to see what's available
Supposedly tapeutil isn't gone. It's not replaced by itdt either. itdt contains the tapeutil
command: run itdt -f /dev/smc0 inventory, or run itdt and choose U to get into the
text-gui version. Caveat: itdt is neither installed, nor does it like being run from anywhere other than its
own directory...put this in your .profile and you'll be set: tapeutil() { (cd /opt/IBMtape ; ./itdt $* ;) ; }
(assumes you unpacked ITDT into /opt/IBMtape. Adjust as necessary for your environment); the function is
because you're passing parameters to it; subshell because we don't want to stay in the dir where it's
installed.
Hope you find the notes useful, Alex; it's possible there may be a SCSI timeout
setting as well...and many thanks to others for the ITDT contributions above!
- Susie
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Date:Mon, 2 Jul 2012 08:50:43 -0700
From:Alex Paschal apasch...@frontier.commailto:apasch...@frontier.com
Subject: Re: Reducing SCSI timeouts?
Hi, Sascha. I don't know how to reduce the timeout, but IPLing the drives =
should allow the process to cancel. I used to just walk back into the data=
center and flip the power switch, it got me up from my desk, but you can IP= L
the drive from the 3584 Web Specialist also.
On 7/2/2012 7:26 AM, Sascha Askani wrote:
Hi everybody,
due to faulty tape drives, we have lost some of our LTO4 tape=20
volumes, i.e. these volumes are no longer readable by any of our
other=20 tape drives. AUDIT VOLUME sometimes stalls at the first file
to check=20 and throws errors and gets reduced to a crawl.
The only way out for us is currently DELETE VOLUME DISCARDD=3DYES,
but=
=20
for obvious reasons, I do a MOVE DATA beforehand to rescue the
data=20 that any of the drives is able to read. (No copy pools were
yet=20
configured)
Since we have a couple of volumes to check, I'd like to get some=20
insight if it is possible to reduce the SCSI timeout value for the=20
tape drives, since we have to wait ~15 minutes for a single CANCEL
PROCE=
SS
I tried:
echo 180 /sys/class/lin_tape/IBMtapeX/device/timeout
But that didn't work out. Any hints?
* TSM for Linux/x86_64 - Version 6, Release 2, Level 3.100
* RedHat 5
* lin_taped 1.68.0-1
Thanks in advance!
BR,
Sascha
report data
Good day everyone, I am stuck in meetings and wanted to ask this so as to hopefully have some good info to use once I get out of them. I need to put together a report showing the nodename, domainname, total MB in use and time of last access. The output would generate the info for all nodes on the tsm server. I have nothing but command line to generate the data. What's the easiest way to get this info. I'd go run some tests myself but as I mentioned I'm stuck in meetings and of course it soulds like I need to get the report out immediately. Thank You for your assistance Geoff Gill
Journaling support question
On Redhat Linux 5.5 with TSM client 6.3, is journaling on a gpfs filespace supported? David
tsm linux clients and scheduler
Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on. I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to load scheduler via the command Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null I verify it afterwards via Ps -ef |grep dsmc root 27798 26371 0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc [1]+ Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log Not sure what the [1]+ Exit 127 is, other linux servers have no issues Any one seen this. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments.
Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler
Try: dsmc sched Regards, Kamran H. Rao Senior UNIX Systems Administrator T 519.749.4300 x.2574 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: July 5, 2012 1:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on. I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to load scheduler via the command Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null I verify it afterwards via Ps -ef |grep dsmc root 27798 26371 0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc [1]+ Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log Not sure what the [1]+ Exit 127 is, other linux servers have no issues Any one seen this. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments.
Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler
Tim, Try using the absolute path to the dsmc command. On my AIX system a symbolic link was automatically created during client installation, letting me use /usr/bin/dsmc. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on. I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to load scheduler via the command Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null I verify it afterwards via Ps -ef |grep dsmc root 27798 26371 0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc [1]+ Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log Not sure what the [1]+ Exit 127 is, other linux servers have no issues Any one seen this. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments. ** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person.
Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler
Hi Tim, What's happening when you run dsmc sched in foreground (without nohup, or redirecting errors to /dev/null) ? Regards, Erwann - Mail original - De: Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Jeudi 5 Juillet 2012 19:12:22 Objet: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on. I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to load scheduler via the command Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null I verify it afterwards via Ps -ef |grep dsmc root 27798 26371 0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc [1]+ Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log Not sure what the [1]+ Exit 127 is, other linux servers have no issues Any one seen this. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments.
Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler
When backgrounding a Unix command process, get into the habit of redirecting all standard I/O: stdin, stdout, and stderr. Thus, in bsh, you would do like: dsmc schedule /dev/null 21 /dev/null (Redirect Stdout to some file if you want to inspect miscellaneous process messages.) That will help avoid some anomalous behavior. Richard Sims
Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler
Or even better: nohup /usr/bin/dsmc sched /dev/null 21 Met vriendelijke groet, Richard van Denzel +31 (0)6 15 83 82 48 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Namens Kamran Rao Verzonden: donderdag 5 juli 2012 19:22 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Try: dsmc sched Regards, Kamran H. Rao Senior UNIX Systems Administrator T 519.749.4300 x.2574 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: July 5, 2012 1:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on. I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to load scheduler via the command Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null I verify it afterwards via Ps -ef |grep dsmc root 27798 26371 0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc [1]+ Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log Not sure what the [1]+ Exit 127 is, other linux servers have no issues Any one seen this. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments.
TSM monitor/reporting and moving the database
Environment is Windows 2008R2 and TSM Monitoring and Reporting V6.3.1 installed. Default is the WAREHOUS database is on the install C: drive and according to the doc this db can grow to 400+ GB per monitored server for a year. I would like to move the database to its own drive so I don't require the large boot drive. I found technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21418908 which gives steps to move/migrate the database. The first step mentions 3 files that are installed and if not, you can't do the move/migration. Those files are: KHDENV_MIG khdmig.jar migratewarehouse.bat And are in the C:\IBM\itm\TMAITM6 directory.or should be. My installation doesn't have these files. Without them you can't do the migrate. Any idea how I can get these installed? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler
Bingo, thanks, I am no way a Linux expert Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard van Denzel Sent: Thursday, 05 July, 2012 1:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler Or even better: nohup /usr/bin/dsmc sched /dev/null 21 Met vriendelijke groet, Richard van Denzel +31 (0)6 15 83 82 48 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Namens Kamran Rao Verzonden: donderdag 5 juli 2012 19:22 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Try: dsmc sched Regards, Kamran H. Rao Senior UNIX Systems Administrator T 519.749.4300 x.2574 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: July 5, 2012 1:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on. I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to load scheduler via the command Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null I verify it afterwards via Ps -ef |grep dsmc root 27798 26371 0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc [1]+ Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log Not sure what the [1]+ Exit 127 is, other linux servers have no issues Any one seen this. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments.
Re: Journaling support question
Hi David, Journaling is supported for most filesystems (ext3, ext4, vxfs...) but is not supported for gpfs. Regards, Erwann - Mail original - De: David E. Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Jeudi 5 Juillet 2012 18:52:33 Objet: [ADSM-L] Journaling support question On Redhat Linux 5.5 with TSM client 6.3, is journaling on a gpfs filespace supported? David
Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler
No issues, schedule works pokim1:~ # dsmc schedule IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface Client Version 6, Release 1, Level 0.0 Client date/time: 07/05/12 08:44:44 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2009. All Rights Reserved. ANS0991I TSM scheduler is listening for server requests on port 1501 TSM Backup-Archive Client Version 6, Release 1, Level 0.0 Querying server for next scheduled event. Node Name: POKIM1 Session established with server TSMPOK_SERVER1: Windows Server Version 6, Release 3, Level 0.0 Server date/time: 07/05/12 13:51:17 Last access: 07/05/12 13:46:26 Next operation scheduled: Schedule Name: PHONE_TEST Action:Incremental Objects: Options: Server Window Start: 13:54:56 on 07/05/12 Waiting to be contacted by the server. Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Erwann Simon Sent: Thursday, 05 July, 2012 1:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler Hi Tim, What's happening when you run dsmc sched in foreground (without nohup, or redirecting errors to /dev/null) ? Regards, Erwann - Mail original - De: Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Jeudi 5 Juillet 2012 19:12:22 Objet: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on. I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to load scheduler via the command Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null I verify it afterwards via Ps -ef |grep dsmc root 27798 26371 0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc [1]+ Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log Not sure what the [1]+ Exit 127 is, other linux servers have no issues Any one seen this. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments.
Re: TSM monitor/reporting and moving the database
I suggest you open a PMR. I've had about 15 of them open with various problems on 6.3.1 monitoring/reporting/admin. Some have become APARs, others still being investigated. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM monitor/reporting and moving the database Environment is Windows 2008R2 and TSM Monitoring and Reporting V6.3.1 installed. Default is the WAREHOUS database is on the install C: drive and according to the doc this db can grow to 400+ GB per monitored server for a year. I would like to move the database to its own drive so I don't require the large boot drive. I found technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21418908 which gives steps to move/migrate the database. The first step mentions 3 files that are installed and if not, you can't do the move/migration. Those files are: KHDENV_MIG khdmig.jar migratewarehouse.bat And are in the C:\IBM\itm\TMAITM6 directory.or should be. My installation doesn't have these files. Without them you can't do the migrate. Any idea how I can get these installed? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ?? [Confidentiality notice:] *** This e-mail message, including attachments, if any, is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy the original message, including all copies, Thank you. ***
Re: Journaling support question
Are you using mmbackup? http://ibm.co/NbcaQk On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr wrote: Hi David, Journaling is supported for most filesystems (ext3, ext4, vxfs...) but is not supported for gpfs. Regards, Erwann - Mail original - De: David E. Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Jeudi 5 Juillet 2012 18:52:33 Objet: [ADSM-L] Journaling support question On Redhat Linux 5.5 with TSM client 6.3, is journaling on a gpfs filespace supported? David -- Ken Bury
