Re: IMPORT / EXPORT
It is my understanding the export only deals with data as it existed at the initial start of the EXPORT process. Newly arriving data from backup is not exported. The approach I used: Export the node, making note of the date the process started. Use SUSPEND EXPORT * in your daily maintenance scripts to temporarily pause the export before the next backup schedule. Then use RESTART EXPORT * in later scripting to pick up where that export left off. In time, perhaps a few days, the export will finish. When the initial export is done use the EXPORT node FROMDATE= parameter to collect the new backup activity. That let the node manager and I coordinate the cut of the node to the new TSM server on any date that was convenient without my manual oversight of repeated exports every day. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason Barkes Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 3:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] IMPORT / EXPORT Hi, I am currently export nodes to a new server which is working fine. Some of these exports are taking a very long time due to collocation not being switched on. I cannot stop the backups in the mean time. What I'm trying to find out is: Does the export just work with data retrieved at the start and therefore any new Active data is not included when the export finishes? Many Thanks, Jason Barkes Enterprise Support Group ** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of the SSE Group. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. SSE plc Registered Office: Inveralmond House 200 Dunkeld Road Perth PH1 3AQ Registered in Scotland No. SC117119 www.sse.com ** [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. ***
Downloading via IE?
Am I the only one having trouble with http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24036985? When using IE, I follow the link for FTP to download a given file. IE starts what appears to be an never-ending open blank page, open blank page, open blank page sequence. If I use Chrome, no trouble. Guess Chrome is my solution... eh? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Cancelling REPLICATION Processes via script.
I have an admin script that issues several node replicate commands, with WAIT=YES on each to control bandwidth/processor burden. If I issue CANCEL REPLICATION, only the currently running process is cancelled. The next REPLICATE NODE (pending via the script) then starts. Is there a way to cancel all of those pending processes? I tried a DELETE schedule_name TYPE=A (it did delete the schedule), followed by CANCEL PRO (on the currently running process), but the next REPLICATION immediately started. The only solution coming to mind is to write a script that would repeatedly issue Q REPLICATION * with a CANCEL REPLICATION issued if one is active. Then exiting when none are found. Any of you TSM wizards have a solution you're willing to share? ... thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Cancelling REPLICATION Processes via script.
Thanks Bent I'll give that a try. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bent Christensen Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 9:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Cancelling REPLICATION Processes via script. Back in the day we used to do something like this to be able to bail out of long-running house-keeping scripts: repl node node1,node2,node3 wait=yes select * from scripts where name='CANCEL_REPLI' if(rc_ok) goto cancel repl node node4,node5,node6 wait=yes select * from scripts where name='CANCEL_REPLI' if(rc_ok) goto cancel cancel: cancel replication del script CANCEL_REPLI Then it was just a matter of defining a script CANCEL_REPLI ... - Bent -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Cancelling REPLICATION Processes via script. I have an admin script that issues several node replicate commands, with WAIT=YES on each to control bandwidth/processor burden. If I issue CANCEL REPLICATION, only the currently running process is cancelled. The next REPLICATE NODE (pending via the script) then starts. Is there a way to cancel all of those pending processes? I tried a DELETE schedule_name TYPE=A (it did delete the schedule), followed by CANCEL PRO (on the currently running process), but the next REPLICATION immediately started. The only solution coming to mind is to write a script that would repeatedly issue Q REPLICATION * with a CANCEL REPLICATION issued if one is active. Then exiting when none are found. Any of you TSM wizards have a solution you're willing to share? ... thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: TDP for Exchange Failures
I don't know the details, but is this a VSS problem? There is a command line to test that as I recall. I don't manage our Exchange boxes, just vaguely recall a command would test VSS functions. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Francisco Javier Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:38 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for Exchange Failures Since when did you saw it? Did you try to do one backup online since TDP GUI, this working? Try to update the admin and doing a connection since de client dsmc using the dsm.opt Regards 2014-06-10 6:32 GMT-05:00 Leonard, Matthew matthew.leon...@atlasair.com: Hello All, I've been getting numerous failures with our Exchange Backups that are being executed via a scheduled command as shown below. Server Version: 6, Release 1, Level 4.5, TSM Client Version: 6.2.3.0, TDP Client Version: 6.1.3.0 all running on Windows 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 3 and we are running from a replica mailbox server with the Proxynode option set for this Mailbox server with the passive copies of the databases. We have had no problems for years and nothing has changed besides growth but lately we have been getting tons of failures such as: Event Logs: Failure Executing Schedule EXCHANGE2010_4, RC=450. Failure Executing Schedule EXCHANGE2010_4, RC=418. VSS processing encountered error 'VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS' in the Volume Shadow Copy API 'StartSnapshotSet'. DSM Logs: ACN0519E The VSS operation failed with rc = 450. ANS1017E (RC-50) Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred. Again, The majority of our DB's backup but we get 3-6 failures a day and it's not the same ones every day. One that was successful yesterday could fail tonight. It's just very odd Command Running: tdpexcc backup XDCExecStore1 full /BACKUPMETHOD=VSS /BACKUPDESTINATION=TSM /tsmoptfile=XDCCrewStore1.opt /logfile=C:\TSM\excsch_XDCCrewStore1.log C:\TSM\excfull_XDCCrewStore1.log Options File: NODenameXDCExecStore1 TCPServeraddress sxdctsm01 SCHEDMODE Prompted CLUSTERnodeno COMPRESSIon no PASSWORDAccess Generate COMMMethod TCPip TCPPort1500 TCPWindowsize63 TCPBuffSize32 COMPRESSALWAYSno RESOURCEUTILIZATION 2 ERRORLOGNAME C:\TSM\dsmerror_XDCExecStore1.log SCHEDLOGNAME C:\TSM\dsmsched_XDCExecStore1.log ERRORLOGRETENTION 7 SCHEDLOGRETENTION 7 Regards, Matthew J. Leonard Network Infrastructure Administrator IT Network Operations AtlasAir, Inc. matthew.leon...@atlasair.commailto:matthew.leon...@atlasair.com 914-701-8042 [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. ***
TDP Exchange 7.x and FlashCopy Manager
I see FlashCopy Manager is required for TDP Exchange 7.1. Does FlashCopy get installed during the install of the TDP client? I'm not able to download it because we apparently don't have it licensed. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: TDP Exchange 7.x and FlashCopy Manager
Thanks Angela I apparently miss-read the DP Exchange requirements. Here's a copy of the statements I read: Exchange Server 2010 and 2013 Tivoli(r) Storage FlashCopy(r) Manager software must operate in an account with membership in the Organization Management group. You must also have local Administrator privilege. For mailbox restore and mailbox restore browser operations, membership in the Organization Management group is also required. The Exchange server must have the Client Access server role installed, or Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager must be configured to use a different client access server in the domain. I read the first sentence to mean that FlashCopy is required. The fact that Exchange has Client Access server role installed appears to negate the need for FlashCopy. I missed that or condition; not enough coffee yet! Thanks again. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Angela Robertson Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 10:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 7.x and FlashCopy Manager Hi Harold, FlashCopy Manager for Microsoft Exchange Server 4.1 shares the same hardware and software requirements as Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server 7.1, but FlashCopy Manager is not required for DP Exchange. Here's a link to the 7.1 Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server (and 4.1 FlashCopy(r) Manager for Microsoft Exchange) Hardware and Software Requirements - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21654310 Also, FlashCopy Manager is not installed during the installation of the TDP client. Hope this helps - Angela Angela Robertson IBM Software Group Durham, NC 27703 aprob...@us.ibm.com ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 06/04/2014 10:21:47 AM: From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 06/04/2014 10:23 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 7.x and FlashCopy Manager Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu I see FlashCopy Manager is required for TDP Exchange 7.1. Does FlashCopy get installed during the install of the TDP client? I'm not able to download it because we apparently don't have it licensed. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: TSM client scheduler issue
Can you PING the IP of the TSM Server? Or TELNET IP 1500? Those tests check for network connectivity and open firewalls. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Swartz, Jerome Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 8:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM client scheduler issue Hi Fellow TSM'ers TSM server 5.5 Client 5.4 It seems my client has lost connection to the backup server. Errorlog: 5/20/2014 14:48:14 ANS4039E Could not establish a session with a TSM server or client agent. The TSM return code is -53. 05/20/2014 14:48:14 ANS1029E Communication with the TSM server is lost. I have tried updating the scheduler but get the following error; Error 9 establishing TSM API session unknown TSM API error. Once a click ok its says scheduler service successfully updated but it's not as my still has no comms. 5/20/2014 14:46:57 Will attempt to get schedule from server again in 20 minutes. 05/20/2014 14:48:14 Querying server for next scheduled event. 05/20/2014 14:48:14 Node Name: CARME_DAILY 05/20/2014 14:48:14 ANS1029E Communication with the TSM server is lost. ** COMPUTACENTER PLC is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 03110569. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW COMPUTACENTER (UK) Limited is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 01584718. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW COMPUTACENTER (Mid-Market) Limited is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 3434654. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW COMPUTACENTER (FMS) Limited is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 3798091. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW The contents of this email are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information which may be confidential and which may also be privileged. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive mail for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you receive it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. Computacenter information is available from: http://www.computacenter.com ** [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. ***
SQL Query for replstate
I need to run a query (such as SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE something = 'ENABLED') to list nodes and their replstate status But I don't find REPLSTATE as a column in the NODES table. And I don't see a column name that seems related. Q REPLNODE * returns multiple rows for each node; but REPLNODE is not a table. Does anyone know where the replication status is stored? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Tivoli Admin Center frustrations
I'm using FF 3.6.28 without too much trouble. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Erwann Simon Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 12:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tivoli Admin Center frustrations Hello John, Browser requirements are pretty strict for Admin Center : IE 7 or 8 and FF 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6. I personally recommand FF 3.5.19. It's available as portable (www.portableapps.com). On 4 mai 2014 06:43:28 CEST, Dury, John C. jd...@duqlight.com wrote: I apologize in advance but I'm just getting more frustrated. I've installed both the windows and linux version of TSM Admin Center 6.3.4.300 and both seemed to install correctly with no errors. After correctly logging in, I can't add a TSM server under the Manage Server option. I've tried 4 different web browsers (opera,firefox,chrome and IE) and the only combination I could get to work correctly was IE and the linux Admin Center. I've done some searching and followed some suggestions like enabling javascript in firefox but it still hasn't helped. We also have TSM Manager licensed but were looking for more functionality (specifically Automatic client deployment) that Admin Center supplies plus maybe saving some money. Admin Center has been available for how many years now and is still this buggy? One browser of four is all that seems to work out of the box and only with the linux version? It seems like I am not the only one feeling the pain. Anyone have any suggestions? I can call IBM of course but I'm afraid that will result in hours and hours trying to get it to work, and frankly I don't have the time (or maybe patience). -- Erwann SIMON Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté. [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. ***
Node IP address
I have a node where the IP address changed; it now differs from the TCP/IP value shown in Q NODE name F=D. The node can successfully open the BAClient GUI and I see Activity Log records that display the new IP value. I can PING the new address and TELNET to 1501 so I know the scheduler is running and network is routing. If the node uses Edit Client Preferences to change the IP on Scheduler, Prompted Mode, why does that not appear to change the TCP/IP as shown by the Q NODE command? Setting HLAddress doesn't apply because we're in ClientorServer session initiation. The node manager SAYS he's altered the IP value, maybe he hasn't? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Node IP address
That's what I thought... The node manager tells me he changed the IP and I also told him to stop/start the schedule service. I'll have him send me a copy of his dsm.opt file... that'll tell if he did the change. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 3:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Node IP address After changing IP you need to restart RSM services (at least TSM Scheduler, if in use). New TCP/IP will be visible on YSM server. Grigori Solonovitch, Senior Systems Architect, IT, Ahli United Bank Kuwait, www.ahliunited.com.kw -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: 02 05 2014 10:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Node IP address I have a node where the IP address changed; it now differs from the TCP/IP value shown in Q NODE name F=D. The node can successfully open the BAClient GUI and I see Activity Log records that display the new IP value. I can PING the new address and TELNET to 1501 so I know the scheduler is running and network is routing. If the node uses Edit Client Preferences to change the IP on Scheduler, Prompted Mode, why does that not appear to change the TCP/IP as shown by the Q NODE command? Setting HLAddress doesn't apply because we're in ClientorServer session initiation. The node manager SAYS he's altered the IP value, maybe he hasn't? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. *** Please consider the environment before printing this Email. CONFIDENTIALITY AND WAIVER: The information contained in this electronic mail message and any attachments hereto may be legally privileged and confidential. The information is intended only for the recipient(s) named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this in error please contact the sender and delete this message and any attachments from your computer system. We do not guarantee that this message or any attachment to it is secure or free from errors, computer viruses or other conditions that may damage or interfere with data, hardware or software.
Replicate Node design change?
I've setup node replication from two servers (S1 and S2) toward a single target server (S3) off-site. A bit of latency; but it's been working fine. I've been granted permission to build another TSM server (S4) at the target site. I'd like to re-work my replication design so that S2 pushes to S4 (the new server). Is it possible to do something like this: 1. Cease replication for nodes on S2. (a simple commenting of script commands) 2. EXPORT selected nodes from S3 to S4. 3. When all export done, define S4 as the replication destination from S2. 4. Re-enable replication from S2, now pushing to S4, by un-commenting script commands). The goal is to use the new server as a replication target, but avoid pushing all that data across the WAN link again. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Delete last snapshot?
Is there a way to force a delete of the last database snapshot backup? I have one from several months ago, sitting on hardware we're decommissioning. DEL VOLHIST TYPE=DBS TODATE=TODAY won't do it and the manual says the last won't be deleted. Is there an un-documented command option? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Delete last snapshot?
Thanks... the undocumented FORCE=Y is the key. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:39 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Delete last snapshot? Harold If it is the only DBS backup use: del volh t=dbs tod=today force=y If you need to delete a specific DB snapshot then refer to the options available for the delete volume history command in the help section. -Rick Adamson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Delete last snapshot? Is there a way to force a delete of the last database snapshot backup? I have one from several months ago, sitting on hardware we're decommissioning. DEL VOLHIST TYPE=DBS TODATE=TODAY won't do it and the manual says the last won't be deleted. Is there an un-documented command option? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Maintenance script schedule problem
Welcome to TSM. Are you seeing the error when CREATING the schedule or attempting to change an existing schedule? For an existing schedule, I select the Change Schedule Repetition button, then Repeat Daily (every one or more days), the next query is for Run the schedule every _ days. The default is 1 day. Then, a prompt for how frequently to run: Every day, either Saturday or Sunday, except Saturday or Sunday, run on the following days. Picking run on every day of the week puts this in the Activity Log: UPDATE SCHEDULE name SCHEDULESTYLE=CLASSIC PERIOD=1, PERUNITS=days DAYOFWEEK=ANY TYPE=ADMINISTRATIVE A similar prompting appears on the sequence to create a new schedule. The Select Repetition Options panel asks for the date/time, active checkbox, then the run once, repeat hourly and other choices. You'd pick repeat daily and should see the same sequence as above. What version of the Admin Center are you running? Expand the Product Information details on the About screen to find the installed version. I'm at Administration Center 6.3.4.000. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem Hello, This is my first time posting so please let me know if I missed anything. I am also very new to TSM in general. I am running TSM Server 6.3.3 When I try to schedule the maintenance script I have created to run every day I get an error, but if I choose just one day it works fine. I am trying to edit the schedule from the TIP as I know nothing os the TSM CLI. I receive 3 errors: ANRW0137E the action cannot be completed ANRW0163E additional info from server ANR2612E UPDATE SCHEDULE: Invalid day of week - MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI,SAT,SUN. The script into says that it should be run daily, but if I check anything more than one day I receive these errors. Please help! Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 [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: Maintenance script schedule problem
I don't use the Server Maintenance approach and attempts to use it just now indicate I don't have any defined. My maintenance scripts are all managed via the Manage Servers approach. From Manage Servers, click a server name. Then, Administrative Schedules. What are you trying to accomplish in the script? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 10:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem I am running admin center 6.3.3.000 I am editing an existing schedule. I do not see all of the prompts you mentioned. I click Server maintenanceserver nameschedule I have check boxes for each day to choose, but if I check more than one and click apply or OK I get the errors. I do not have choices for every _ days or anything similar. I do not see a change schedule repetition button perhaps I am looking at this wrong all together? Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 12/26/2013 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Welcome to TSM. Are you seeing the error when CREATING the schedule or attempting to change an existing schedule? For an existing schedule, I select the Change Schedule Repetition button, then Repeat Daily (every one or more days), the next query is for Run the schedule every _ days. The default is 1 day. Then, a prompt for how frequently to run: Every day, either Saturday or Sunday, except Saturday or Sunday, run on the following days. Picking run on every day of the week puts this in the Activity Log: UPDATE SCHEDULE name SCHEDULESTYLE=CLASSIC PERIOD=1, PERUNITS=days DAYOFWEEK=ANY TYPE=ADMINISTRATIVE A similar prompting appears on the sequence to create a new schedule. The Select Repetition Options panel asks for the date/time, active checkbox, then the run once, repeat hourly and other choices. You'd pick repeat daily and should see the same sequence as above. What version of the Admin Center are you running? Expand the Product Information details on the About screen to find the installed version. I'm at Administration Center 6.3.4.000. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem Hello, This is my first time posting so please let me know if I missed anything. I am also very new to TSM in general. I am running TSM Server 6.3.3 When I try to schedule the maintenance script I have created to run every day I get an error, but if I choose just one day it works fine. I am trying to edit the schedule from the TIP as I know nothing os the TSM CLI. I receive 3 errors: ANRW0137E the action cannot be completed ANRW0163E additional info from server ANR2612E UPDATE SCHEDULE: Invalid day of week - MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI,SAT,SUN. The script into says that it should be run daily, but if I check anything more than one day I receive these errors. Please help! Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 [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: Maintenance script schedule problem
For the ADSM-L group: is there a set of sample scripts at IBM or any that get installed for customization? I stepped into an existing shop and didn't have to start with a blank slate as it appears Tom is facing. In my shop, those tasks (backup, migration, expiration, node replication, reclamation, etc.) are performed via a few Administrative Scripts that include some script logic to test for various conditions. The first script schedules the second script to start at a future time (NOW+00:30 for 30 minutes), then does its own work. When the second script starts, it first tests that script 1 had completed. If the work of script 1 is still running, script 2 reschedules itself to start in NOW+00:10 (i.e. 10 minutes out). If script 1 was done, Script 2 first creates Script 3 to start in the future, and then does its work. Likewise, Script 3 first tests to see if the work of script 2 had completed. This approach insures that each of the desired tasks runs to completion before the next task starts, and keeps the ball rolling so there is a minimum of idle time between the tasks. You said you're new to TSM is TSM also new in your environment? It sounds like you're trying to build out the first deployment. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 12:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem I am trying to do the database backup, and reclamation and expiration. Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 12/26/2013 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I don't use the Server Maintenance approach and attempts to use it just now indicate I don't have any defined. My maintenance scripts are all managed via the Manage Servers approach. From Manage Servers, click a server name. Then, Administrative Schedules. What are you trying to accomplish in the script? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 10:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem I am running admin center 6.3.3.000 I am editing an existing schedule. I do not see all of the prompts you mentioned. I click Server maintenanceserver nameschedule I have check boxes for each day to choose, but if I check more than one and click apply or OK I get the errors. I do not have choices for every _ days or anything similar. I do not see a change schedule repetition button perhaps I am looking at this wrong all together? Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 12/26/2013 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Welcome to TSM. Are you seeing the error when CREATING the schedule or attempting to change an existing schedule? For an existing schedule, I select the Change Schedule Repetition button, then Repeat Daily (every one or more days), the next query is for Run the schedule every _ days. The default is 1 day. Then, a prompt for how frequently to run: Every day, either Saturday or Sunday, except Saturday or Sunday, run on the following days. Picking run on every day of the week puts this in the Activity Log: UPDATE SCHEDULE name SCHEDULESTYLE=CLASSIC PERIOD=1, PERUNITS=days DAYOFWEEK=ANY TYPE=ADMINISTRATIVE A similar prompting appears on the sequence to create a new schedule. The Select Repetition Options panel asks for the date/time, active checkbox, then the run once, repeat hourly and other choices. You'd pick repeat daily and should see the same sequence as above. What version of the Admin Center are you running? Expand the Product Information details on the About screen to find the installed version. I'm at Administration Center 6.3.4.000. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Maintenance script schedule problem Hello, This is my first time posting so please let me know if I missed anything. I am also very new to TSM in general. I am running TSM Server 6.3.3 When I try to schedule the maintenance script I have created to run every day I get an error, but if I choose just one day it works fine. I am trying to edit the schedule from the TIP as I know nothing os the TSM CLI. I receive 3 errors: ANRW0137E the action cannot be completed ANRW0163E additional info from server
How to report readme error?
I'm looking at the 6.3.4.300-TIV-TSMAC-Windowsx64.exe download and the README.htm for that looks like it belongs to TSM Server, not TSM AdminCenter. The readme link View server APARs fixed in Level 6.3.4.300 opens to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21639086 that doesn't include any .300 references. How does one report what might be an error in the content of that readme? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Windows HSM Recall Dialog syntax
Can you use an EXPORT NODE with TOSERVER? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows HSM Recall Dialog syntax This is an old system and the customer wants all the archive data copied/moved to a new server. Figured the easiest way is to use the HSM GUI recall dialog. What is the syntax in the drive and path boxes to allow me to filter what I want? Tried multiple variations but it always returns nothing. There are so many files migrated that the V5.5 client (I know..old) terminates if I ask for everything. I would like to do it one directory at a time from the volume. Any help is appreciated. 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. ***
VSS backup crashes TSM Schedule Service
I've been thrown the responsibility to change the TSM Server IP address used by some nodes after they've exported to a new TSM server. In one case, (node Windows 2003 running TSM Client 6.2.3.00), the TSM Schedule Service crashes if SYSTEMSTATE backup is attempted. The opt file has SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS. If I deselect SYSTEMSTATE in the client preferences, backup runs successfully and the schedule service remains running. The only change was to specify the IP address of the new TSM server (6.3.3.100), and stop/start the scheduler. Former TSM was as 5.5.2.0. I've tried deleting the schedule service and re-creating; still crashes. This is new to me, any hints from the community of experts? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: ANR1162W Space reclamation skipping damaged file on volume
Check a recent APAR https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IC95938myns=aparmynp=DOCTYPEcomponentmync=E for a similar problem. I was running node replication and had some damaged files. The files had been de-duped by the node. Volume audits with fix=yes resolved the trouble. The above APAR was created shortly after my PMR was closed. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR1162W Space reclamation skipping damaged file on volume Seeing these errors on replicated TSM server during reclaim process, both servers have been upgraded recently to 6.3.3 ANR1162W Space reclamation skipping damaged file on volume D:\WIN2K_PRIM2\0001A370.BFS: Node NEREUS, Type Backup, File space \\nereus\d$file:///\\nereus\d$, File name \STELLENT\IDCM1\WEBLAYOUT\GROUPS\RECORDSGROUP\DOCUMEN- TS\RM_INTERNALINFO\AKK.CXPC2PZPK5ANS08KDXD 821.HTM. Then if I audit the volume this is the result, I know I can delete the volume and re-replicate it It is a de-deduplicated storage pool. Prior to 6.3.3 we saw this but never the ANRD messages audit vol D:\WIN2K_PRIM2\0001A370.BFS fix=yes ANR2312I Audit Volume (Repair) process started for volume D:\WIN2K_PRIM2\0001A370.BFS (process ID 175). ANR8340I FILE volume D:\WIN2K_PRIM2\0001A370.BFS mounted. ANR0512I Process 175 opened input volume D:\WIN2K_PRIM2\0001A370.BFS. ANRD_2164256325 BfGetBitfileExtents(bfaggrut.c:4572) Thread38: BFBE Entry not found for object 702767727 ANRD Thread38 issued message from: ANRD Thread38 07FEE92F9839 OutDiagToCons()+159 ANRD Thread38 07FEE92F33BC outDiagfExt()+fc ANRD Thread38 07FEE8CAD44B BfGetBitfileExtents()+e0b ANRD Thread38 07FEE8CBFBA8 bfRtrvExt()+1328 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8D00ED4 AfAuditBitfile()+d4 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8CC3716 bfAuditBitfile()+cc6 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8BD4508 AdmVolDelThread()+1708 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8BD6875 AdmAuditVolThread()+7b5 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8AE6384 startThread()+124 ANRD Thread38 74431D9F endthreadex()+43 ANRD Thread38 74431E3B endthreadex()+df ANRD Thread38 7704652D BaseThreadInitThunk()+d ANRD Thread38 7727C521 RtlUserThreadStart()+21 ANRD_2547000324 bfRtrvExt(bfrtrv.c:1444) Thread38: Error 9979 obtaining deduplication information for object 702767726 in super bitfile 702767540 in pool 16 ANRD Thread38 issued message from: ANRD Thread38 07FEE92F9839 OutDiagToCons()+159 ANRD Thread38 07FEE92F33BC outDiagfExt()+fc ANRD Thread38 07FEE8CBFBFB bfRtrvExt()+137b ANRD Thread38 07FEE8D00ED4 AfAuditBitfile()+d4 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8CC3716 bfAuditBitfile()+cc6 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8BD4508 AdmVolDelThread()+1708 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8BD6875 AdmAuditVolThread()+7b5 ANRD Thread38 07FEE8AE6384 startThread()+124 ANRD Thread38 74431D9F endthreadex()+43 ANRD Thread38 74431E3B endthreadex()+df ANRD Thread38 7704652D BaseThreadInitThunk()+d ANRD Thread38 7727C521 RtlUserThreadStart()+21 ANR2327W Audit volume process terminated for volume D:\WIN2K_PRIM2\0001A370.BFS - internal server error detected. ANR0515I Process 175 closed volume D:\WIN2K_PRIM2\0001A370.BFS. ANR0985I Process 175 for AUDIT VOLUME (REPAIR) running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 08:01:10. ANR1893E Process 175 for AUDIT VOLUME (REPAIR) completed with a completion Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 [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: Node Replication Sessions
Not that I know of...l'll do some more research. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 3:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Node Replication Sessions Every hour? Do you use a config manager with a refresh time of 60 mins? The message is very similar. On 4 September 2013 21:06, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov wrote: I'm on Windows, running 6.3.3.100. Replication runs only in the early morning hours, and I just saw the ANRs with mid-afternoon time stamps. A detailed search for string started for server name returns ANRs on about an hourly basis. 5:02 6:04 7:05 8:06 9:08 10:09 11:10 And on-going. These are all well after the scripted command ran to start replication of a group had finished. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 2:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Node Replication Sessions Harold Just checked one of my node replication source servers, and I'm only seeing those messages when it is supposed to be replicating. None at any other time. Server is Linux, TSM ver 6.3.2.2 Steven On 4 September 2013 20:40, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov wrote: I've started replicating a few nodes; works well it appears. But, I'm seeing Activity Log entries of ANR0408I Session nnn started for server Replication Target Server (Windows) (Tcp/Ip) for replication. Likewise, the target server has similar ANRs referencing the source server. But, these are occurring during times of day when the replication activity is not running. Is it simply raising a heartbeat/ping type session for a testing purpose? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Node Replication Sessions
I've started replicating a few nodes; works well it appears. But, I'm seeing Activity Log entries of ANR0408I Session nnn started for server Replication Target Server (Windows) (Tcp/Ip) for replication. Likewise, the target server has similar ANRs referencing the source server. But, these are occurring during times of day when the replication activity is not running. Is it simply raising a heartbeat/ping type session for a testing purpose? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Node Replication Sessions
I'm on Windows, running 6.3.3.100. Replication runs only in the early morning hours, and I just saw the ANRs with mid-afternoon time stamps. A detailed search for string started for server name returns ANRs on about an hourly basis. 5:02 6:04 7:05 8:06 9:08 10:09 11:10 And on-going. These are all well after the scripted command ran to start replication of a group had finished. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 2:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Node Replication Sessions Harold Just checked one of my node replication source servers, and I'm only seeing those messages when it is supposed to be replicating. None at any other time. Server is Linux, TSM ver 6.3.2.2 Steven On 4 September 2013 20:40, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov wrote: I've started replicating a few nodes; works well it appears. But, I'm seeing Activity Log entries of ANR0408I Session nnn started for server Replication Target Server (Windows) (Tcp/Ip) for replication. Likewise, the target server has similar ANRs referencing the source server. But, these are occurring during times of day when the replication activity is not running. Is it simply raising a heartbeat/ping type session for a testing purpose? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Deleting multiple nodes
In the TSM 5.x days, there was guidance to delete only one file space at a time; apparently concurrent delete activity could be a problem. Does that guidance still apply in TSM 6.x with DB2 on the backend? A currently running file space delete has been running for several hours, and I need to do more deletes (this node and others) But don't want to risk trouble. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Node Replication and MAXSESSIONS
Any info from the community about the amount of data to be replicated as it relates to guidance on the value for MAXSESSIONS? Is it related to number of bytes for the node, the number of file spaces, the number of nodes (and their respective bytes/file spaces) being replicated on a single replicate instance? I've not run replication yet... is there a way to know how many sessions were used? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Deduplication/replication options
I'm using Data Domain as the only dedup component. Mgmt is balking at the cost additional disk or tape pools with TSM dedup and the highly desired backup to non-dedup pool. Our current tape technology is quite old and replacing with several new drives and library hardware isn't on the financial agenda. We have Data Domain in two data centers. A TSM pool on the DD is replicated to the alternate DD via DD replication. It replicates the de-duped data, so latency/bandwidth is less of an issue. An second TSM server will see the other DD as a Pool, or at least that's the plan. Haven't fully tested yet. Had to carefully define the Device Class to make sure the path name is identical on both ends. Will have to stop DD replication, at least temporarily, to test it. But, haven't tested yet. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sergio O. Fuentes Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 12:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Deduplication/replication options Hello all, We're currently faced with a decision go with a dedupe storage array or with TSM dedupe for our backup storage targets. There are some very critical pros and cons going with one or the other. For example, TSM dedupe will reduce overall network throughput both for backups and replication (source-side dedupe would be used). A dedupe storage array won't do that for backup, but it would be possible if we replicated to an identical array (but TSM replication would be bandwidth intensive). TSM dedupe might not scale as well and may neccessitate more TSM servers to distribute the load. Overall, though, I think the cost of additional servers is way less than what a native dedupe array would cost so I don't think that's a big hit. Replication is key. We have two datacenters where I would love it if TSM replication could be used in order to quickly (still manually, though) activate the replication server for production if necessary. Having a dedupe storage array kind of removes that option, unless we want to replicate the whole rehydrated backup data via TSM. I'm going on and on here, but has anybody had to make a decision to go one way or the other? Would it make sense to do a hybrid deployment (combination of TSM Dedupe and Array dedupe)? Any thoughts or tales of woes and forewarnings are appreciated. Thanks! Sergio [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. ***
Side bar re ImageNow
Does anyone have a product known as ImageNow in their TSM environment? I just got a call from an Agency that would like me to help setup backup of that system. I didn't find much help searching for ImageNow other than to send contact info to the developer team. I'd rather avoid that. It sounds like a database system to manage PDFs or other graphical files. Just looking for anyone that has experience with how TSM can, or can't, be a worthy backup solution. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold
I've used the export to another server solution, but this last event was the most troublesome. Five very large nodes, it took nearly a week to export one of them. Complicated by the impact on storage resources. (That's another battle I'm fighting at the moment.) Thus, my comment in the RFE about the immediate ability to refrain expiration. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 4:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Our approach has been to export/import the node to another TSM instance under a different node name with a suffix or prefix that indicated the hold. THe mgt class is set to no-expire.We stop expiration until this copy is made. This approach has lets the node be processed as usual, and the copy can sit for as long as needed. Rick From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/07/2013 03:36 PM Subject:Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Great ideas Paul I'm preparing to build the alternate server without expiration approach as soon as I can scare up some resources. I'll look at the alternate Domain approach also. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold We deal with a variety of types of litigation hold here, as well. What you can do now, easily, is to setup a parallel policy domain (i.e., LITHOLD) that has all the same management classes, but different retention policy (i.e., retain forever). Then, to avoid expiration you just have to do this: UPDATE NODE nodename DOMAIN=LITHOLD This works if you have all the same management classes defined in LITHOLD that you had defined in the original domain. You can move the node back and forth between domains as needed. If LITHOLD is missing a management class, then retention would be controlled by the grace period definitions of the domain - something you'll probably want to avoid. No changes needed on the client side since you're not changing management class names, just their attributes. If you have associated a schedule with the node, then you'll need to have copies of the schedules in LITHOLD and re-associate the node with the schedule in the LITHOLD domain (which can be defined the same). We also deal with other types of litigation holds that require is to take a snapshot of the data. For this, we simply export (a copy of) the node to another TSM server instance where expiration does not run or has no effect. ..Paul At 05:05 PM 5/3/2013, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: To all... I created an RFE to affect File Spaces and Expiration. The feature would cause expiration processing to be skipped for a file space that has been selected. It's RFE ID 33395 if you care to review and vote. Briefly, the idea is to immediately respond to a situation in which we cannot allow Expiration Processing to delete information that would otherwise be deleted. This would be in response to a Litigation Hold demand from a legal issue at hand. I've had three LitHold events in the past 24 months; they're not much fun and I'm not in the court room, just the TSM Server Admin. Allowing a LitigationHold=Yes would avoid expiration on the File Space. When the court case is lifted, simply revert to LitigationHold=No. The next Expiration process would then begin the delete process as is normal. The feature would avoid the complexity of assigning a no expire management class to the node and trying to later revert to a more typical class. Please take a look at the RFE, and cast a vote if you feel it's a valuable feature. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. *** -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager of Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 IT at Cornell / InfrastructureEm: p...@cornell.edu 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 - The information contained
Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold
I found a shortcut on my RFE to share with anyone as a quick way to find it. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfeCR_ID=33395 The link will take you through the DeveloperWorks sign-in process; if you don't have a sign-in, see the links on the page to obtain one. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 4:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Unfortunately we've had expiration holds for tens of terabytes of data, so we haven't been able to use this approach. -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine On 05/07/13 14:39, Richard Rhodes wrote: Our approach has been to export/import the node to another TSM instance under a different node name with a suffix or prefix that indicated the hold. THe mgt class is set to no-expire.We stop expiration until this copy is made. This approach has lets the node be processed as usual, and the copy can sit for as long as needed. Rick From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/07/2013 03:36 PM Subject:Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Great ideas Paul I'm preparing to build the alternate server without expiration approach as soon as I can scare up some resources. I'll look at the alternate Domain approach also. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold We deal with a variety of types of litigation hold here, as well. What you can do now, easily, is to setup a parallel policy domain (i.e., LITHOLD) that has all the same management classes, but different retention policy (i.e., retain forever). Then, to avoid expiration you just have to do this: UPDATE NODE nodename DOMAIN=LITHOLD This works if you have all the same management classes defined in LITHOLD that you had defined in the original domain. You can move the node back and forth between domains as needed. If LITHOLD is missing a management class, then retention would be controlled by the grace period definitions of the domain - something you'll probably want to avoid. No changes needed on the client side since you're not changing management class names, just their attributes. If you have associated a schedule with the node, then you'll need to have copies of the schedules in LITHOLD and re-associate the node with the schedule in the LITHOLD domain (which can be defined the same). We also deal with other types of litigation holds that require is to take a snapshot of the data. For this, we simply export (a copy of) the node to another TSM server instance where expiration does not run or has no effect. ..Paul At 05:05 PM 5/3/2013, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: To all... I created an RFE to affect File Spaces and Expiration. The feature would cause expiration processing to be skipped for a file space that has been selected. It's RFE ID 33395 if you care to review and vote. Briefly, the idea is to immediately respond to a situation in which we cannot allow Expiration Processing to delete information that would otherwise be deleted. This would be in response to a Litigation Hold demand from a legal issue at hand. I've had three LitHold events in the past 24 months; they're not much fun and I'm not in the court room, just the TSM Server Admin. Allowing a LitigationHold=Yes would avoid expiration on the File Space. When the court case is lifted, simply revert to LitigationHold=No. The next Expiration process would then begin the delete process as is normal. The feature would avoid the complexity of assigning a no expire management class to the node and trying to later revert to a more typical class. Please take a look at the RFE, and cast a vote if you feel it's a valuable feature. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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
Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold
Ah, it appears I miss-understood EXACTLY what happens in expiration. The intent of a litigation is, in my case, to satisfy the instruction from legal that says: 'keep everything'. That would include versions and days to retain files going on for an extended time. So, Wanda, you've blown my idea for a simple check box it appears. (insert sad face here.) But, perhaps the checkbox doesn't override expire, but rather alters the way the files are handled during that filespace backup on each backup event. Exporting a node to an alternate server or tape, isn't a real solution if that node is large. I need to look more into the use of the alternate DOMAIN. But, still, a nice little checkbox to avoid loss of data would be great, IMHO. No extra work to manage alternate domains with mgmt classes named the same, but with NOLIM values. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Just want to clarify something for people who haven't dealt with this before. It depends on what you mean when you say stop expiration. Suppose you have the copy group limit set to 30 versions. If the client is still backing up, the 31st version will still roll off and be not-restorable, no matter whether you run the command EXPIRE INVENTORY or not. If you have the copy group limit set to 30 days, the inactive versions will still roll off and be not-restorable, whether you run the command EXPIRE INVENTORY or not. So it depends on what you mean by stop expiration. The only way to keep versions from expiring, is to change the copy group settings to NOLIM, whether in the current domain or a new domain or a new server. The only thing you can do by not running expire inventory, is to prevent yourself getting back DB space and scratch tapes, as the tape %utilization values won't get updated. (I've always thought the command EXPIRE INVENTORY should be renamed to DBCLEANUP, as it doesn't really affect expiration of files.) Of course a set of data created on external sequential media (via create backupset or export) isn't mapped by the DB and therefore isn't subject to rolling off. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Great ideas Paul I'm preparing to build the alternate server without expiration approach as soon as I can scare up some resources. I'll look at the alternate Domain approach also. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold We deal with a variety of types of litigation hold here, as well. What you can do now, easily, is to setup a parallel policy domain (i.e., LITHOLD) that has all the same management classes, but different retention policy (i.e., retain forever). Then, to avoid expiration you just have to do this: UPDATE NODE nodename DOMAIN=LITHOLD This works if you have all the same management classes defined in LITHOLD that you had defined in the original domain. You can move the node back and forth between domains as needed. If LITHOLD is missing a management class, then retention would be controlled by the grace period definitions of the domain - something you'll probably want to avoid. No changes needed on the client side since you're not changing management class names, just their attributes. If you have associated a schedule with the node, then you'll need to have copies of the schedules in LITHOLD and re-associate the node with the schedule in the LITHOLD domain (which can be defined the same). We also deal with other types of litigation holds that require is to take a snapshot of the data. For this, we simply export (a copy of) the node to another TSM server instance where expiration does not run or has no effect. ..Paul At 05:05 PM 5/3/2013, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: To all... I created an RFE to affect File Spaces and Expiration. The feature would cause expiration processing to be skipped for a file space that has been selected. It's RFE ID 33395 if you care to review and vote. Briefly, the idea is to immediately respond to a situation in which we cannot allow Expiration Processing to delete information that would otherwise be deleted. This would be in response to a Litigation Hold demand from a legal issue at hand. I've had three LitHold events in the past 24 months; they're not much fun and I'm not in the court room, just the TSM Server Admin. Allowing a LitigationHold=Yes would avoid expiration on the File Space. When the court case is lifted
Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold
On the point by Wanda regarding when files are lost. I was just visiting with one of my co-workers that built our original TSM environment several years ago; IBM was here to help. It was observed that storage capacity was filling quickly, even though policy was set to a few versions and some number of days for the last version. IBM reviewed the setup and observed the Field Engineer had forgotten to have us run expiration; so each node had dozens of versions and long ago deleted files. That makes it sound like the backup event actually marks a file to be deleted from the DB, and that a later expiration process does the actual removal. It apparently took several hours to get through the expire inventory processes to remove all the old files. In my case, my need was/is to make sure nothing is lost for selected file spaces on 5 nodes. Expiration of other nodes, or even some file space of these 5, should proceed as normal, allowing to recover storage space. However it happens under the cover, hopefully a simple checkbox would make it a very quick and simple task avoiding the management of alternate domains, etc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Just want to clarify something for people who haven't dealt with this before. It depends on what you mean when you say stop expiration. Suppose you have the copy group limit set to 30 versions. If the client is still backing up, the 31st version will still roll off and be not-restorable, no matter whether you run the command EXPIRE INVENTORY or not. If you have the copy group limit set to 30 days, the inactive versions will still roll off and be not-restorable, whether you run the command EXPIRE INVENTORY or not. So it depends on what you mean by stop expiration. The only way to keep versions from expiring, is to change the copy group settings to NOLIM, whether in the current domain or a new domain or a new server. The only thing you can do by not running expire inventory, is to prevent yourself getting back DB space and scratch tapes, as the tape %utilization values won't get updated. (I've always thought the command EXPIRE INVENTORY should be renamed to DBCLEANUP, as it doesn't really affect expiration of files.) Of course a set of data created on external sequential media (via create backupset or export) isn't mapped by the DB and therefore isn't subject to rolling off. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Great ideas Paul I'm preparing to build the alternate server without expiration approach as soon as I can scare up some resources. I'll look at the alternate Domain approach also. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold We deal with a variety of types of litigation hold here, as well. What you can do now, easily, is to setup a parallel policy domain (i.e., LITHOLD) that has all the same management classes, but different retention policy (i.e., retain forever). Then, to avoid expiration you just have to do this: UPDATE NODE nodename DOMAIN=LITHOLD This works if you have all the same management classes defined in LITHOLD that you had defined in the original domain. You can move the node back and forth between domains as needed. If LITHOLD is missing a management class, then retention would be controlled by the grace period definitions of the domain - something you'll probably want to avoid. No changes needed on the client side since you're not changing management class names, just their attributes. If you have associated a schedule with the node, then you'll need to have copies of the schedules in LITHOLD and re-associate the node with the schedule in the LITHOLD domain (which can be defined the same). We also deal with other types of litigation holds that require is to take a snapshot of the data. For this, we simply export (a copy of) the node to another TSM server instance where expiration does not run or has no effect. ..Paul At 05:05 PM 5/3/2013, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: To all... I created an RFE to affect File Spaces and Expiration. The feature would cause expiration processing to be skipped for a file space that has been selected. It's RFE ID 33395 if you care to review and vote. Briefly, the idea is to immediately respond to a situation in which we cannot allow Expiration Processing to delete information that would otherwise be deleted. This would be in response
Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold
We're clearly deep into the mire of exactly how TSM works. But, it the Developers pick up this request, they'll figure something out; either for Client Backup or Expire, or both. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold I believe the TSM client enforces the # of versions limit specified in the management class, but not the retention attributes (# of days to keep inactive versions). Only the TSM Expiration process will purge inactive objects when they reach their Retain limits (retextra, retonly). If your management class is setup to retain 3 versions, and 3 versions already exist when the TSM client tries to backup a 4th, I believe the TSM client will roll off the oldest version making it unrestorable (and unquery-able). Whether the database entries are actually purged at that point, or if that doesn't happen until expiration runs, doesn't really matter - you won't be able to restore that 4th, oldest version. If you were not running Expiration before, then you would not have been purging inactive objects that exceeded their retention limits. ..Paul At 12:33 PM 5/8/2013, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: On the point by Wanda regarding when files are lost. I was just visiting with one of my co-workers that built our original TSM environment several years ago; IBM was here to help. It was observed that storage capacity was filling quickly, even though policy was set to a few versions and some number of days for the last version. IBM reviewed the setup and observed the Field Engineer had forgotten to have us run expiration; so each node had dozens of versions and long ago deleted files. That makes it sound like the backup event actually marks a file to be deleted from the DB, and that a later expiration process does the actual removal. It apparently took several hours to get through the expire inventory processes to remove all the old files. In my case, my need was/is to make sure nothing is lost for selected file spaces on 5 nodes. Expiration of other nodes, or even some file space of these 5, should proceed as normal, allowing to recover storage space. However it happens under the cover, hopefully a simple checkbox would make it a very quick and simple task avoiding the management of alternate domains, etc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Just want to clarify something for people who haven't dealt with this before. It depends on what you mean when you say stop expiration. Suppose you have the copy group limit set to 30 versions. If the client is still backing up, the 31st version will still roll off and be not-restorable, no matter whether you run the command EXPIRE INVENTORY or not. If you have the copy group limit set to 30 days, the inactive versions will still roll off and be not-restorable, whether you run the command EXPIRE INVENTORY or not. So it depends on what you mean by stop expiration. The only way to keep versions from expiring, is to change the copy group settings to NOLIM, whether in the current domain or a new domain or a new server. The only thing you can do by not running expire inventory, is to prevent yourself getting back DB space and scratch tapes, as the tape %utilization values won't get updated. (I've always thought the command EXPIRE INVENTORY should be renamed to DBCLEANUP, as it doesn't really affect expiration of files.) Of course a set of data created on external sequential media (via create backupset or export) isn't mapped by the DB and therefore isn't subject to rolling off. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Great ideas Paul I'm preparing to build the alternate server without expiration approach as soon as I can scare up some resources. I'll look at the alternate Domain approach also. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold We deal with a variety of types of litigation hold here, as well. What you can do now, easily, is to setup a parallel policy domain (i.e., LITHOLD) that has all the same management classes, but different retention policy (i.e., retain forever). Then, to avoid expiration you just have to do this: UPDATE NODE nodename DOMAIN=LITHOLD This works if you have all the same management classes
Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold
Great ideas Paul I'm preparing to build the alternate server without expiration approach as soon as I can scare up some resources. I'll look at the alternate Domain approach also. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold We deal with a variety of types of litigation hold here, as well. What you can do now, easily, is to setup a parallel policy domain (i.e., LITHOLD) that has all the same management classes, but different retention policy (i.e., retain forever). Then, to avoid expiration you just have to do this: UPDATE NODE nodename DOMAIN=LITHOLD This works if you have all the same management classes defined in LITHOLD that you had defined in the original domain. You can move the node back and forth between domains as needed. If LITHOLD is missing a management class, then retention would be controlled by the grace period definitions of the domain - something you'll probably want to avoid. No changes needed on the client side since you're not changing management class names, just their attributes. If you have associated a schedule with the node, then you'll need to have copies of the schedules in LITHOLD and re-associate the node with the schedule in the LITHOLD domain (which can be defined the same). We also deal with other types of litigation holds that require is to take a snapshot of the data. For this, we simply export (a copy of) the node to another TSM server instance where expiration does not run or has no effect. ..Paul At 05:05 PM 5/3/2013, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: To all... I created an RFE to affect File Spaces and Expiration. The feature would cause expiration processing to be skipped for a file space that has been selected. It's RFE ID 33395 if you care to review and vote. Briefly, the idea is to immediately respond to a situation in which we cannot allow Expiration Processing to delete information that would otherwise be deleted. This would be in response to a Litigation Hold demand from a legal issue at hand. I've had three LitHold events in the past 24 months; they're not much fun and I'm not in the court room, just the TSM Server Admin. Allowing a LitigationHold=Yes would avoid expiration on the File Space. When the court case is lifted, simply revert to LitigationHold=No. The next Expiration process would then begin the delete process as is normal. The feature would avoid the complexity of assigning a no expire management class to the node and trying to later revert to a more typical class. Please take a look at the RFE, and cast a vote if you feel it's a valuable feature. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. *** -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager of Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 IT at Cornell / InfrastructureEm: p...@cornell.edu 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801
TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold
To all... I created an RFE to affect File Spaces and Expiration. The feature would cause expiration processing to be skipped for a file space that has been selected. It's RFE ID 33395 if you care to review and vote. Briefly, the idea is to immediately respond to a situation in which we cannot allow Expiration Processing to delete information that would otherwise be deleted. This would be in response to a Litigation Hold demand from a legal issue at hand. I've had three LitHold events in the past 24 months; they're not much fun and I'm not in the court room, just the TSM Server Admin. Allowing a LitigationHold=Yes would avoid expiration on the File Space. When the court case is lifted, simply revert to LitigationHold=No. The next Expiration process would then begin the delete process as is normal. The feature would avoid the complexity of assigning a no expire management class to the node and trying to later revert to a more typical class. Please take a look at the RFE, and cast a vote if you feel it's a valuable feature. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: OK, who moved the TSM manuals? (again....) I have customers to support...
I've not tried Firefox 3.6 yet but via IE9, the new site (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Documentation%20Central/page/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager) doesn't display any info on the left that's easily readable. Items that probably should be All Information Display as a l l i n f o r m a t i o n Another looks like it should be Tivoli Service Automation Manager Displays as Ti vo li S er vi ce A ut o m ati o n M a n a g er -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Canan Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 3:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] OK, who moved the TSM manuals? (again) I have customers to support... Here is the reply I got from Information Development. == We're very sorry for the inconvenience that the site change has caused. The Tivoli Documentation Central site was moved to new infrastructure, and redirects were not possible. If you have a bookmark for the former Tivoli Documentation Central site, you will need to update it. So if you have this link: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolidoccentral/Home Please use one of the following links instead: ibm.com/tivoli/documentation http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Documentation%20Central If you have bookmarks for product specific sites within Tivoli Documentation Central, you can find the new links by looking for the products you need at ibm.com/tivoli/documentation For example, the Tivoli Storage Manager page moved from this location: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolidoccentral/Tivoli+Storage+Manager To this location: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Documentation%20Central/page/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager The following link might be helpful to find any Tivoli storage product: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Documentation%20Central/page/S If anyone has problems finding what you need, you can post a comment to any page in Tivoli Documentation Central. (To comment, you need to sign in, which requires using your existing IBM ID, or registering a new IBM ID with developerWorks.) If you have questions regarding this Wanda, you can send an email to Clare Byrne at: byrnec AT us DOT ibm DOT com She also mentioned that they are working on getting the link in the support site updated. Dave Canan IBM Advanced Technical Skills On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Dave Canan ddca...@gmail.com wrote: Wanda, for now use the following link to access all the info centers for all the TSM releases. I will talk to a developer in the morning to see what has happened here. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki /Tivoli%20Documentation%20Central/page/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager Dave Canan IBM Advanced Technical Skills ddcananATus.ibm.com On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.comwrote: I had a link to TSM infoCenter Central. Now it brings up a perfectly useless TSM Developerworks Public Wiki page. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en If you scroll down that page and click on Tivoli Storage Manager, then click the link to Documentation Central, it loops back to the top of the same page. If you go to the TSM support page http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/ Tivoli_Storage_Manager and click the link for Product documentation, it takes you to the same crap. If you click the Documentation tab, that also takes you to the same crap. Does someone have the name of a human we can contact and tell them to a) put the infocenter links back where they were, and then b) leave the manual links alone? I don't' want to be in developer works wiki. I want clean access to manuals. I don't understand why IBM thinks it's ok to play with this information, which is all that's happening here (again. and again.) I have customers to support, and I don't have time for this. Wanda Prather Tivoli Storage Manager Consultant Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.com ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o) [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: tsm tdp vss issues exchange 2010
May or may not be related I have an AVAMAR box in our environment and EMC issued a VSS-related problem recently. EMC references 2748349: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2748349 for resolution. EMC comments: The data for applications backed up by other Avamar VSS plug-ins (Exchange VSS, SharePoint VSS, and Hyper-V VSS) could also be impacted by the Microsoft issue. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm tdp vss issues exchange 2010 Has anyone had numerous issues with TSM TDP for Exchange 2010. We continue to struggle with VSS issues and Microsoft claims its not their issue. We initially had Exchange circular logging enabled and have since turned that off as recommended. I see that TSM TDP for Exchange 6.4 is available. Configuration TSM 6.3.1.15 server on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise TSM 6.3.1 BA client on Exchange servers TSM TDP Exchange 6.3.1 Exchange 2010 Version 14.02.0247.005 Exchange Windows servers 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 Recent dsmerror.log during tdpexcc full backup 04/16/2013 07:42:04 ANS5252E TSM attempted to execute a system command which failed. command : C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\excvssic.exe C:\adsm.sys\vss_staging\TDP_EXCH2\TSMPOK\20130416071952\b6d6da44-9ba6-4426-9503-1e2183bab0d3_Audit.txt rc : -1032 04/16/2013 07:42:05 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered. TSM function name : baHandleSnapshot TSM function : BaHandleSystemPostSnapshotCmd() failed. TSM return code : -1032 TSM file : backsnap.cpp (4300) 04/16/2013 07:42:05 ANS1327W The snapshot operation for '\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy20\' failed with error code: -1032. 04/16/2013 07:42:05 Return code -1032 unknown 04/16/2013 07:42:05 Unknown system error Please check the TSM Error Log for any additional information 04/16/2013 08:02:12 ANS1577I The Windows console event handler received a 'Ctrl-C' console event. Thanks, Tim Brown [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. ***
Export to tape vols, done with them.
I had exported a node to tape, and now no longer need those volumes as export. The goal: return them to SCRATCH. Thru TSM library, I got an ANR8443E cannot be assigned to SCRATCH. ANR8443E advises making them PRIVATE. I was successful in marking them as PRIVATE. But, I get the same ANR8443E when now trying to modify to scratch. How do I get these tapes back into scratch status? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Export to tape vols, done with them.
I found my answer: DELETE VOLHISTORY TYPE=EXPORT. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Litigation Issue
I've just learned about a keep everything issue for 5 of our nodes related to a pending litigation. All are Windows servers, running TSM client 6.x, server is TSM 5.5.x. Default mgmt class is to retain 3 versions, deleted for 30 days. I'm looking for advice on how to quickly/easily keep all the files including historical versions. My read of GENERATE BACKUPSET refers to active data; that would put only current files into the backup set but NOT include versions. Correct? Applying an option set with a filter for * no_expire_mgmt_class might work. Does that modify the expiration date of historical versions of a file or just the current version? Does that modify the expiration date for the deleted files that are going to expire out within the 30 day period? I also have a 6.2.4 TSM server in the environment. Perhaps an export node to that 6.2.4 server and get files into a Stg Pool where we don't process expiration? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to all Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: tsm and hyperv servers
Yes. significant hangs. TSM Server at 6.2.4. TSM Client is 6.3.0. I'm not the HyperV manager, but I do know that D$ on that host holds the virtual servers. If TSM client attempts to backup D$ the process stalls and never finishes. I don't know what, if any, work has been done by the node manager other than exclude D$ as the immediate solution. The exclusion allows the backup to complete, but obviously the virtual servers aren't in the backup. I just saw the advice re vssadmin list writers. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm and hyperv servers Is anyone experiencing an issue with using TSM to back up HyperV servers, These servers seem to stop during the scheduled backups for no apparent reason. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.commailto: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. [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: tsm and hyperv servers
Are the guests backed up by their own TSM client installs on each guest? I must admit I've not reviewed any of the HyperV configuration details. I do know that VMware is complex. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm and hyperv servers To clarify, the issue is not with the HyperV servers that own the hyperv guests but its with the actual guests hanging. Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Thursday, 14 March, 2013 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm and hyperv servers Yes. significant hangs. TSM Server at 6.2.4. TSM Client is 6.3.0. I'm not the HyperV manager, but I do know that D$ on that host holds the virtual servers. If TSM client attempts to backup D$ the process stalls and never finishes. I don't know what, if any, work has been done by the node manager other than exclude D$ as the immediate solution. The exclusion allows the backup to complete, but obviously the virtual servers aren't in the backup. I just saw the advice re vssadmin list writers. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm and hyperv servers Is anyone experiencing an issue with using TSM to back up HyperV servers, These servers seem to stop during the scheduled backups for no apparent reason. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.commailto: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. [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: Info Center link for TSM 6.4 manuals?
It worked for me yesterday. But just now, after a very slow load, I see Service Temporarily Unavailable .Please try again later in that left pane. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 9:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Info Center link for TSM 6.4 manuals? Anybody else have a working link for the 6.4 info center? I'm getting a blank page from this one since yesterday: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp It used to work.. Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.com ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o) [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. ***
AdminCenter browser problem today.
I'm back to fighting my access to Admin Center with a browser. Last week, my Firefox 3.6.24 worked just fine to login and open a command line with a TSM server. This morning, issuing a command on the command line starts a scrolling bar, with the stop button. The stop button appears dead, nothing stops. It's as if the session never gets a response from TSM or can't send the command to TSM. I've tried using IE 8, which is successful, but so slow it's nearly impossible to deal with; along with the this script is running slowly do you want to cancel it' prompt. Any guesses what has broken in my FF configuration? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: AdminCenter browser problem today.
I wasn't able to get a newer FF to work at all. In fact, the IBM specs say 3.something. I finally got somewhere just moments ago: 1: I removed Java 7, Update 13 from Windows Installed Software. 2: I installed Java 6, Update 39. FF now works properly on the command line. But, a minor issue: FF complains that it crashed when I exit FF. I don't really care about thatcompared to getting to that command line. Thanks to all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 2:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] AdminCenter browser problem today. Java. It's evil. The admin center command line pop up is a java thing. If somebody pushed out java patches, that will do it. And yes, with IE8 it's slow as dirt. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 3:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AdminCenter browser problem today. I'm back to fighting my access to Admin Center with a browser. Last week, my Firefox 3.6.24 worked just fine to login and open a command line with a TSM server. This morning, issuing a command on the command line starts a scrolling bar, with the stop button. The stop button appears dead, nothing stops. It's as if the session never gets a response from TSM or can't send the command to TSM. I've tried using IE 8, which is successful, but so slow it's nearly impossible to deal with; along with the this script is running slowly do you want to cancel it' prompt. Any guesses what has broken in my FF configuration? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Common Reporting v6.4, Cognos
I've created a report without too much trouble that satisfies my end user community. But, I need to put a calculation for yesterday in the header. I tried an _add_days(Today(),-1) expression but if fails validation. Anyone know how to determine yesterday's date? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819
Check the Local Security Policy, does the account have permission for Log on as a service? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 The TSM Scheduler service is running under the domain userid in the organization Management group. If I logon as that userid I can run the backups. But running them as a scheduled task fails. That's what's strangesame userid... works logged on...fails as service. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 Also, remember that the account used for the scheduler has to be a member of the Exchange Security Group Organization Management, which in our case is a security group in our root domain. ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark, Margaret Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 We saw RC=1819 when the scheduler was started using the local system account, and the local system account did not have access to the Exchange system. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:10 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 Windows 2008 R2 server running Exchange 2010. Installed the agent and my Exchange admin gave me a userid with the permissions. Running the backup while logged in as the user works fine, but when I run it as a scheduled backup I get RC=1819. The TSM Scheduler service is configured to run as the same domain userid I used to successfully backup while logged on. Never seen this one before. Scheduler fails with the same userid that works if I logon locally. My Windows guy is stumped, too. Any ideas? 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. ***
Mgmt Console and Win7
I've been using Firefox 3.6.24 and an old 5.5.x Mgmt Console on WinXP for ages. Worked reasonably well to access 6.x Administration Center and watch the Activity Log scroll by in the Mgmt Console Monitor. But, I got blessed with Win 7 yesterday and now fighting a couple of issues. Good news: With FF 3.6.24 on Win7, I can access Admin Center and use the various windows to manage servers, storage devices, policy, search Activity Log,, reporting, etc. All those tasks seem to be working. Two bits of bad news: 1: Firefox, Manage Server, Action: Use Command Line. A new tab opens, but no response comes back to any command issued. The scrolling bar appears with a STOP button; which doesn't work. The TSM Server Activity Log does not record the command being issued. FF appears to be blocking the outbound traffic. 2: In the 5.5.x TSM Mgmt Console, Monitor Start indicates the monitor started, but never displays activity log information. IE 8 is a pain, but does allow command line work. I hope to find a solution for the FF command window. But definitely need to find the fix for the Mgmt Console Monitor. Anyone have suggestions? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S 910 SW Jackson (785) 296-0631 [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: Client 6.4 installation causing Win Server 2012 to restart?
I had heard that a late 6.3 version client would force a reboot, apparently following the prerequisite MS packages. A co-worker had installed 6.3.x on a file server (Win Server 2008) and didn't know it was going to boot while he went for a coffee refill during the install. He had several calls from staff that got clobbered due to the reboot. But, this morning I installed the 6.4.0 client without any reboot on Win Server 2008. The client installer DID install the Microsoft packages. The machine happens to also have TSM Monitoring/Admin 6.3.1 installed. Perhaps the Microsoft packages were already there, and updated, which maybe doesn't force a reboot??? 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 RonHextall Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Client 6.4 installation causing Win Server 2012 to restart? Hello all, I started the installation of TSM Client version 6.4 on one of our new Windows Server 2012 servers and went to do other things while waiting on the installation to finish. When I went back to the server after about ~5 minutes I realized that the TSM Client installation hade restarted the machine, without installing the client yet, causing angry phonecalls from concerned users. I figure that the installation of the prerequisite Microsoft packages is the reason behind this? Has anyone here experienced this before? I've searched through various installation notes from TSM regarding the 6.4 client but I havent really found anything indicating this. I have installed 5 or 6 clients on other Windows Server 2012 machines and numerous of older TSM clients on other servers without experiencing this before. The concerned server is used as an TS-server. +-- |This was sent by jakob.g...@jsc.se via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- [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: TSM cmd after library has been defined again..
Are you needing to run a CHECKIN libvname various parms to get the inventory of tapes into the TSM system? 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 Swartz, Jerome Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM cmd after library has been defined again.. W2K3 server, TSM 5.5 Library is a IBM 3584 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: 27 November 2012 08:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM cmd after library has been defined again.. More info. What kind/make/model of library? What OS/platform? We have a 3494 accessed via Linux servers so what I do isn't the same as what you might do On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Swartz, Jerome jerome.swa...@computacenter.com wrote: Hi All, Haven't touched TSM in a while. Needed to delete the paths, drives and library. I just defined those again and there is a command that I need to run so that TSM can see the tapes in the library. Just can't get to it! Q libv doesn't return any results.. Thanks in advance! Jerome ** COMPUTACENTER PLC is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 03110569. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW COMPUTACENTER (UK) Limited is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 01584718. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW COMPUTACENTER (Mid-Market) Limited is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 3434654. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW COMPUTACENTER (FMS) Limited is registered in England and Wales with the registered number 3798091. Its registered office is at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW The contents of this email are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information which may be confidential and which may also be privileged. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive mail for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you receive it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. Computacenter information is available from: http://www.computacenter.com ** -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 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 [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: 6.4 docs
The link http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp has started working. 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 Stefan Folkerts Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 6.4 docs Simon is the man of the day for me! :-D On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr wrote: Hi all, It's not working for me either. Here's a dropbox link to the new publications (.pdf): http://db.tt/LWQajxwi You'll also find a quick review of the new functions. Regards, Erwann Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl a écrit : Hi all, anyone getting something useful from http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4 ? -- Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté. [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: Sophos anti-virus
I can't find it via your link, but we did find that article via another resource. We are now discussing the issues with our security team. Although the Sophos version we'll likely be installing has addressed several of the problems identified by the researcher, some of us are concerned about how long it took Sophos to develop solutions. Thanks for remembering Robert! 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 Robert Clark Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 7:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Sophos anti-virus Questions have been raised about the efficacy of the Sophos product? http://www.cso.com.au/article/441070/google_security_researcher_keep_sophos_away_from_high_value_systems/ [RC] On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov wrote: Is anyone using Sophos anti-virus in their TSM server environments? Just learned we're pulling our former AV vendor; curious if there are any gotchas with Sophos? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Sophos anti-virus
Is anyone using Sophos anti-virus in their TSM server environments? Just learned we're pulling our former AV vendor; curious if there are any gotchas with Sophos? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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: Nodes per TSM server
Excellent advice Zoltan we, too, are in storage occupancy license status. My consolidation effort is partly driven by the fact the TSM 5.5 servers need to be replaced due to age issues and purchasing a pile of NEW hardware doesn't fit the budget very well. Thus, the push from mgmt to consolidate. Thanks again to everyone for the info. 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 Zoltan Forray Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Nodes per TSM server You can also license TSM by storage occupancy, which is what we have done, for 99.9% of our nodes. Our departments bean counter determined it came out cheaper, We run 7-TSM servers (Red Hat Linux) for 600-nodes with total occupancy (as of this email) of *1.1PB* and *1.4B objects.* I define/shift nodes between servers based on factors like: 1. The machines load/TSM version (we still have 1-5.5 and 1-6.1 server - V6 servers handle nodes with millions of objects better than v5) 2. Purpose/work mix (2-are considered critical in a DR recovery scenario since they backup financial/HR/BlackBoard system) 3. University department/purpose (e.g. research vs administrative systems) 4. Age/capacity of the TSM server hardware (e.g. 8-way 32GB RAM Dell T710 vs 4-way Dell 16GB 2950) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.infowrote: Harold Given that TSM is licenced by client and not by server is there really any need to consolidate? You won't be running as many boxes but in the greater scheme of things that won't make a lot of difference. Sure when you replace your hardware you can consolidate. Use Butterfly to do the consolidation or roll your own, but until then run what you have. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 9/10/2012 7:01 AM, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: There are all kinds of measures involved in setting up a TSM server; processor, RAM, disk I/O, stg pool design, reclamation, migration, all the bits and pieces. But, I'm curious about how many nodes some of you have on your TSM servers? I'm in a Windows environment, and have been tasked with consolidating. Also, about how much memory is on those systems. Thanks. --**-- Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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. *** -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 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
Re: Nodes per TSM server
Thanks to everyone. The comments about DB limits and size of nodes were in my thoughts, but didn't make it to my original post. I have a collection of TSM V5, on older Windows boxes running W2k3. New gear is much more powerful, Win2k8, and running TSM V6, so there is some room to grow. I'm keeping detailed stats on how long it takes to get through the backup window and then through overnight processing tasks. Thanks again. 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 Ian Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Nodes per TSM server harold, just for reference, we have 1000 nodes on some servers - these are v5 servers migrated to v6 and *not* consolidated. However, the average occupancy and number of objects for each node is probably much smaller than many other sites - we are an academic site with lots of smaller clients (research, admin, learning materials, etc) with a very limited number of versions and retention period. Wanda is correct - the real limitations are size of DB ( related to the number of objects stored ) and I/O. Memory, cpu and fast disks will all have a bearing on what you can achieve - there are published IBM recommendations on memory (and CPU ?) - search under 'server requirements'. Regards Ian Smith IT Services, | University of Oxford From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Christian Svensson [christian.svens...@cristie.se] Sent: 09 October 2012 07:06 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: Nodes per TSM server Hi Harold, Everything depending on your hardware. But I got everything from 300 nodes up to approx. 500 nodes and every TSM Server are running on Wintel. Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Säkra återläsningar. -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] [mailto:harold.vandeven...@ks.gov] Skickat: den 8 oktober 2012 22:01 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Nodes per TSM server There are all kinds of measures involved in setting up a TSM server; processor, RAM, disk I/O, stg pool design, reclamation, migration, all the bits and pieces. But, I'm curious about how many nodes some of you have on your TSM servers? I'm in a Windows environment, and have been tasked with consolidating. Also, about how much memory is on those systems. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Nodes per TSM server
There are all kinds of measures involved in setting up a TSM server; processor, RAM, disk I/O, stg pool design, reclamation, migration, all the bits and pieces. But, I'm curious about how many nodes some of you have on your TSM servers? I'm in a Windows environment, and have been tasked with consolidating. Also, about how much memory is on those systems. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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: unaccounted for volumes
I had a similar problem, did the checkout/checkin and got them into scratch status. But, later discovered the internal tape label could not be read which caused them to return to Private. Opted to remove them to the old tape shelf above my desk. 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 Lee, Gary Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 1:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] unaccounted for volumes Tsm server 6.2.2 running on RHEL v6 with a 3494 library and 8 ts1120 drives. Was doing some checking on tape inventory and usage for one of our tsm servers. A Select count(*) from libvolumes Shows 298 volumes in the library. Checking volhistory for database backup volumes shows 3 tapes in that capacity. Check of pending volumes shows 1 And summing up all tape pool volumes gives 118. A Select count(*) from libvolumes where status='Private' Shows 160 And Select for scratch volumes gives 137. The upshot is that I have around 40 volumes in the libvolumes table listed as private, but not accounted for in the volumes or volhistory? Audit library ields no errors. Can I just check these out and re check them in as scratch? What would account for this. p.s. I have the volhist file from the moment the server was placed online. The lost volumes do not appear there anywhere. Thanks for any help. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 [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: move nodes from one server to a different server via export
I can't speak to the sign on to server failed message. Try an EXPORT node TOSERVER=target-server PREVIEWIMPORT=YES command. You should see activity log on both source and target server, also processes visible on both via Q PRO. That should let you know if the comm path is working. I recently used export to migrate several large nodes to a new server. Took a few days to get through the data for each node, so I used multiple EXPORT commands with various FROMDATE=mm/dd/ MERGE=YES options to gradually migrate the data. Consider adding SUSPEND EXPORT and RESTART EXPORT in your admin scripts. The node continued to backup to the original server during the days the exports were being managed. In the end, the last EXPORT dealt only with last nights' backup data and finished quickly. Then, had the node manager edit the DSM.OPT to spec the new TSM box. They should open the GUI to make sure it gets connected. Thanks to Wanda she helped me get the export method streamlined. 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 Dury, John C. Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 9:51 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] move nodes from one server to a different server via export Please ignore my previous post about trying to def a target server to source server and it failing. It looks like it works even though I still can't ping the target server from the source server. The replication works correctly though. A brief description of our environment. We have 2 datacenters. Let's call them Site A and site B. Both sites have TSM nodes which are all now currently backing up to the TSM server at site A. We would like to have a tsm server at both sites and have the clients at each respective site backup to their local site, and then replicate that data to the other site. I was hoping to be able to replicate node data from site A to site B and then convert that node to a regular node so the node at that site could then backup to site B. It doesn't look like there is any way to do that so the next choice is to export the node from server A to server B and then change the node so it backs up to server B instead of server A. Once that is done, I can enable replication between sites for that node so it will replicate from site B to site A and thus we have a DR solution for all of our nodes. Because this is tremendous amount of data I'd like to only have to send the data once from site A to site B via the export, and then use replication to replicate daily changes from site B back to site A which should be minimal data changes since the node data already exists at site A. Is this possible? I have both servers defined to each other and when I try to export a node's data from site A to site B I get: ANR0561E EXPORT NODE: Process aborted - sign on to server,site B failed. (SESSION: 118112, PROCESS: 318) Both servers have my admin id defined with the same password and both servers have the same password (although I don't think that matters). Site B was defined to site A via: def server siteB pass=server hladdress=*.*.*.* lladdress=1500 I also tried the other syntax: Def server siteB serverpass=password hladdress=*.*.*.* lladdress=1500 I also tried defining a node on siteB with the name of the server at siteA and type=server Force sync also didn't help. No matter what, I get the sign on to server failed message. Is it me, is def server extremely buggy?! [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: Missing source data for Deduplication in 6.3.x
Try IC86147: IMPACT OF DELETE VOLUME DISCARDDATA=YES ON A DEDUPLICATED STORAGE POOL. 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 Ray Carlson Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 11:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Missing source data for Deduplication in 6.3.x Unfortunately, this is being handled through a third company, so I don't have the number. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com wrote: Can you share the APAR number so I can read up on this issue? thanks W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ray Carlson Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:05 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Missing source data for Deduplication in 6.3.x Is anyone else having the problem of TSM saying that it is missing the source data for Deduplicated data? This is causing some of our Generate Backupset and some of our restore jobs to fail. Unfortunately, unless you run some job that actually attempts to use or restore from the missing data, you don't even know that it is missing. We have been working with IBM for several weeks/months now and they say that version 6.3.2.01 will stop the loss of future data, but we haven't been able to verify that as of yet. We have 4 TSM servers, but this source data loss has only shown up on one of them so far. Thanks for any additional information anyone can provide. Ray [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: Export node to new server
Great help, Wanda... you've been down a lot of TSM paths. Thanks again. 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 Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Export node to new server Since you said these are not trivial-size nodes, here are some tricks I've used: a) Don't lock the node, let it continue backing up to the old server. b) Do your export in chunks. Exports that run a gazillion hours seems to always cause problems and end up failing. I cut down the size of each export by using fromdate/todate on the export, like fromdate = 01/01/2010 todate=12/31/2010. When that's finished, do it again, pick up another later date range, then another and another until you get current. c) Then every morning do: export node filedata=all fromtime=now-24 totime=now merge=yes (always use merge=yes). You can even put this in as an admin schedule that keeps your V6 server up to date and in sync, until you can coordinate with the client owner to switch it over to point to the V6 server for backup. This way you don't have to fight scheduling issues, or worry about it for a day when you get distracted by that pesky pager. You just get the 2 servers in sync for that client a bit at a time, then cut it over when convenient. Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Export node to new server Thanks Wanda,... I owe you sumthin! I'll confirm the domains/mgmt classes/retention rules first. Thanks again. 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 Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 3:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Export node to new server Do I follow the virtual volumes setup process? No, use the enterprise configuration form. You won't be creating any virtual volumes. When you export client data, it will land in the appropriate domain/mgmt. class, and get put into the storage hierarchy of the target server. Woe be unto you if you have domains/mgmt. classes with the same names, but different retention rules, when you start the export/import. Then, define the node manually on the target; Not necessary, it will get created with the import. Then: 1: Lock the node. Not really necessary. 2: EXPORT NODE nodename TOSERVER=target FILEDATA=BACKUP EXPORTIDENTIFIER=a value Suggest adding MERGE =YES as standard practice. Wanda [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. ***
Schedule Port on client?
I'm working with a node manager, we're having issues with the client-side port value that is specified in the DSM.OPT file. It's typically 1501 for the BAClient. Where in the TSM database can I find that value? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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: Schedule Port on client?
We have the BAClient and TDP-Exchange client installed. Port 1501 is working fine for BAClient. Allegedly, TDP-Exchange on that node is using port 1502. But, 1502 isn't listening via NETSTAT. The manager of that Exchange server SAYS it's using 1502 in DSM.OPT but I don't see how... thus, trying to find on the TSM server side what port is used to call the TDP-Exchange scheduler. Q CLIENT and Q SCHED don't give that lower level port info. 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 Rick Adamson Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? From the server cli issue q opt, or q stat. By default the server uses 1500. If I remember correctly 1501 is used by the client side scheduler when the client acceptor is not used. ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? I'm working with a node manager, we're having issues with the client-side port value that is specified in the DSM.OPT file. It's typically 1501 for the BAClient. Where in the TSM database can I find that value? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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: Schedule Port on client?
Yep.. prompted. Somewhere, on the TSM Server side, is stored the port number the client has specified in their DSM.OPT file. Wherever the prompted schedule keeps the value to call the node at its IP and then port number. I'm trying to find that value. It'll be 1501 for the BAClient we're confused re the value for the TDP-Exchange client. Just trying to prove a condition before I open a PMR. 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 Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? ...and schedmode is prompted. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? From the server cli issue q opt, or q stat. By default the server uses 1500. If I remember correctly 1501 is used by the client side scheduler when the client acceptor is not used. ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? I'm working with a node manager, we're having issues with the client-side port value that is specified in the DSM.OPT file. It's typically 1501 for the BAClient. Where in the TSM database can I find that value? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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: Schedule Port on client?
We're running a TSM Schedule to prompt TDP-Exchange 6.x to start a backup. It issues the C:\EXCINCR.CMD command. Two Exchange servers one will run a TSM-Server initiated backup, one will not. The node manager claims that 1502 is the port-spec in the Exch DSM.OPT file and that both are configured identically. Port 1502 isn't listening, which would explain why a prompted backup would not start. But, ONE of the servers does backup via schedule. TELNET ip 1502 fails on both; we've checked firewalls and that traffic is passable. Thus, trying to see what TSM THINKS it is supposed to use. Have found that Q N F=D reports null value for low-level address on several nodes, regardless of BAclient or TDP client. 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 Thomas Denier Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 2:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? -Harold Vandeventer wrote: - Somewhere, on the TSM Server side, is stored the port number the client has specified in their DSM.OPT file. Wherever the prompted schedule keeps the value to call the node at its IP and then port number. I'm trying to find that value. It'll be 1501 for the BAClient we're confused re the value for the TDP-Exchange client. Just trying to prove a condition before I open a PMR. We get messages like: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client JUPITER using type 1 (10.123.123.123 1501). when the server is not able to make the network connection needed to start a scheduled event using prompted mode scheduling. Are you getting this kind of message for the Exchange client events? Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [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: Export node to new server
Thanks Wanda,... I owe you sumthin! I'll confirm the domains/mgmt classes/retention rules first. Thanks again. 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 Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 3:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Export node to new server Do I follow the virtual volumes setup process? No, use the enterprise configuration form. You won't be creating any virtual volumes. When you export client data, it will land in the appropriate domain/mgmt. class, and get put into the storage hierarchy of the target server. Woe be unto you if you have domains/mgmt. classes with the same names, but different retention rules, when you start the export/import. Then, define the node manually on the target; Not necessary, it will get created with the import. Then: 1: Lock the node. Not really necessary. 2: EXPORT NODE nodename TOSERVER=target FILEDATA=BACKUP EXPORTIDENTIFIER=a value Suggest adding MERGE =YES as standard practice. Wanda [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: Export node to new server
Thanks Wanda... the nodes are not trivial, unfortunately. We've never had a need for server-server comms; a lot can be done there it appears. I see a description in the Admin Guide for Preparing to export to another server for immediate import. That includes a DEFINE SERVER to establish the name of the target server or the originating server. I'm confused by the two syntax's of DEFINE SERVER. Do I follow the virtual volumes setup process? Then, define the node manually on the target; some changes in contact, Policy Domain names and other items easy to define manually, but don't need to be exported/imported. Then: 1: Lock the node. 2: EXPORT NODE nodename TOSERVER=target FILEDATA=BACKUP EXPORTIDENTIFIER=a value. 3: monitor that, but have the node manager edit the DSM.OPT. 4: unlock node when done. 5: delete filespaces/node on source after everyone is comfortable it all worked. Again, thanks for helping out, I'm jumping into server-server for the first time. 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 Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Export node to new server Better if you do that in reverse order, unless the clients are trivial in size. If you let the client scheduled backup run, it will do a full, which for many clients can be painful. If you get the export done first, all the existing data will be represented in the new server DB, and the client's scheduled backup to the new server will be incremental. If there is a time lag between the time you do the first export and the time you get the clients dsm.opt file pointing to the new server, you can do an incremental export to catch up - add the FROMDATE=today-blah fromtime=xx:yy:zz to the EXPORT command. Also IMHO it's easier to do what you suggest using server-to-server export than using media. Then it's just one step. Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Export node to new server My goal is to relocate all backup data for a node currently on a TSM 5.5.2 server to a TSM 6.2.4 server. There are no archive or space managed data in the system. First time I've had to try this, so looking to the experts for comment. Looks like a fairly simple process: Define the node on the target server with appropriate schedules, policy, etc. Have the node manager modify the DSM.OPT file to specify the new server. Let scheduled backups run. On source TSM: EXPORT NODE nodename FILEDATA=BACKUP DEVCLASS=classname On target TSM: IMPORT NODE nodename FILEDATA=BACKUP DEVCLASS=classname DATES=ABSOLUTE MERGEFILESPACES=YES VOL=volnames An important parameter MERGEFILESPACES=YES to bring in the old data into the identical filespaces. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Export node to new server
My goal is to relocate all backup data for a node currently on a TSM 5.5.2 server to a TSM 6.2.4 server. There are no archive or space managed data in the system. First time I've had to try this, so looking to the experts for comment. Looks like a fairly simple process: Define the node on the target server with appropriate schedules, policy, etc. Have the node manager modify the DSM.OPT file to specify the new server. Let scheduled backups run. On source TSM: EXPORT NODE nodename FILEDATA=BACKUP DEVCLASS=classname On target TSM: IMPORT NODE nodename FILEDATA=BACKUP DEVCLASS=classname DATES=ABSOLUTE MERGEFILESPACES=YES VOL=volnames An important parameter MERGEFILESPACES=YES to bring in the old data into the identical filespaces. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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. ***
Monitoring/Reporting in 6.3.1?
Anyone working with custom reports in the Cognos section of Monitoring/Reporting 6.3 yet? I'm working on a 6.3.1 install and have a custom report built, but I'd like to use the Cognos Burst feature to properly distribute a report to individuals. This isn't ready for production use, just trying to get setup to replace our 5.5 Operational Reports. Burst, as I understand it, requires a table in the database (DB2-WAREHOUS) that is used by the burst feature. I've had a PMR open on the issue and just learned that ...adding a new table would be a license violation. You can create custom reports, but only using the existing tables. This ensures compatibility with future upgrades. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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: Select or Query help
I had a PMR open with IBM a few days ago... HL_NAME and LL_NAME in the BACKUPS table are not IP addresses/ports. They had me run SELECT FILESPACE_NAME, HL_NAME, LL_NAME, BACKUP_DATE, CLASS_NAME FROM BACKUPS WHERE NODE_NAME='NameOfNode'. It's a long listing, but an example for an Exchange Agent (each column name on a row here): FILESPACE_NAME: NameOfNode\First Storage Group HL_NAME: \data\\Mailbox Database\ LL_NAME: Full BACKUP_DATE: 2012-07-09 09:00:33. CLASS_NAME: Default Values for Filespace_name would be the device, like C$, or D$? Values for HL_NAME would be the path to the files, like \Program Files\. The values for LL_NAME are full, or incr. Even with a select on a node_name, you'll get a lot of rows. 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 Clark, Margaret Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Select or Query help Yes, I was. I don't dare to select them from the archives or backups tables to see what they really are, so I should have kept my mouth shut! Sorry about that. Can you supply an example of what is in the HL_NAME and LL_NAME fields? - Margaret -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:r...@bu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:00 AM To: Clark, Margaret Subject: Re: Select or Query help On Jul 12, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Clark, Margaret wrote: ... P.S. HL_NAME and LL_NAME are not what you need... those are the IP address and port number for a client. Hi, Margaret - You may be thinking of HL_ADDRESS and LL_ADDRESS. Richard [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: 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: Admin Center Issues
I have no authoritative source, but two different IBM staffers have commented that a new GUI is in development. Much more like that used for the IBM-XIV SAN, apparently. That tool is very well designed, IMO, but I can see squeezing all the components/complexity of TSM mgmt into it will take some work. Of course, this could be rumor but I'm hoping. Perhaps for a new thread: is anyone getting far with the Congos reporting component in 6.3.1? 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 Karel Bos Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 2:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Admin Center Issues I think most other product supply it with a working gui where as tivoli dropped the tsm web gui and has not provided tsm with any working gui for the server forcing the admins to cmd, shit tons of custom scripts and/or 3th party tooling. Working with commvault besides tsm, gui delivered with product only meets part of the admin needs. But at least, tsm should come with at least some basic (web based) gui out of the box. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Richard Rhodes rrho...@firstenergycorp.com Verzonden: dinsdag 26 juni 2012 18:36 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: [ADSM-L] Admin Center Issues Or take a look and learn from the growing ecosystem of companies offering alternatives which actually works. I'm curious. DO other backup programs (NetBackup, Legato, etc) have 3rd party GUI's available for them? I suspect not. Rick - 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. [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: Admin Center Issues
I've had several PMRs re 6.3 and 6.3.1 Monitoring/AdminCenter/CommonReporting. Also on Windows 2008 R2. 6.3 wasn't easy, but 6.3.1 upgrade was even tougher. Most PMRs resulted in issuing long, complex command line commands to try to move forward. At one point, I couldn't run the GUI installer because it detected a previous install, but couldn't uninstall because it wasn't there. Make sure the account used for installing (the one you login to Windows) and those within TSM (db2admin, sysadmin, itmuser, etc) are LOCAL (not Active Directory Domain) accounts and members of the Local Administrators Group. TEPS is a local account, but not in Admin Group. I recommend making sure those accounts get set as password never expires. I got stuck on one install admin center again attempt when I didn't realize one of the passwords had expired. That wasn't clear in the errors reported and thus, another PMR that took days to figure out. In my case, Group Policy had revised the password property for sysadmin. I had to argue with our security team to leave it alone. I do have a semi-working 6.3.1 install, but it's not ready for production use. Too many problems like: 1: Minimize/maximize button don't work on a window. Solution: close the window and open a new one. 2: Searching Activity Log produces a portlet error (an APAR has been created for this issue). Solution: close/open the window. 3: Displaying node schedules works only once, then displays none on successive displays. Solution: close/open the window. I'm not sure I've helped you Jim, other than to confirm you're not the only one with trouble. But, I have managed to create a Cognos Report that provides reasonably useable Node Backup Status. Trying to tweak it to take advantage of bursting subsets of nodes to selected recipients. Reporting (getting it to email, attach spreadsheets, etc) was another set of PMRs. Some still open. 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 Jim Neal Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 4:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Admin Center Issues Importance: High Hi All, I have been working off and on for about four months with IBM Tech support to resolve an issue with Admin Center and so far no luck! I am hoping there is one person in the world that can tell me why I can't get Admin Center 6.3 to function on a Windows 2008 R2 System. I installed both the Reporting and Admin Center and there were no errors reported. However, when I open the Tivoli Integrated Portal, there is no option that says Tivoli Storage Manager and nothing that looks anything like the online documentation. I am at the end of my rope with this and would appreciate any assistance. Thanks much! Jim Neal Sr. TSM Admin Storage and Backup Group U.C. Berkeley [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: Admin Center Issues
I do like the GUI of AdminCenter, I don't look forward to everything via command line. But, using documented versions of the browser isn't the fix. I think I had about 8 PMRs just to deal with trying to install Monitoring/AdminCenter. Once installed, I'm finding it's not ready for prime time. One of my usability issues did result in an APAR, attempting to search Activity Log more than once in a given window. Another issue was replicated by IBM, then moved to development for review. Dev apparently want to see the problem and the give/take between Dev and the person at IBM that replicated the issue has been at least a couple of weeks. I see an occasional email of them trying to coordinate a meeting time. Admin Center 6.2 works very well, wouldn't want to do without it. Trying to setup 6.3 has been one very long, frustrating, process. I think Common Reporting, using the Cognos system in 6.3.1 will work for me; I gave up on BIRT. BIRT isn't IBMs product, thus NO support to answer even simple questions, and wasn't finding any help via open source with BIRT. 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 Prather, Wanda Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Admin Center Issues The problem here is that you are getting inappropriate response from IBM Tech Support. No open PMR should drag on for months. There is no reason it should not function on Win2008 R2, I've got it running on 2 customers on Win2008 R2. Any time you have a problem that goes on and on and gets no resolution from IBM Tech Support, go through the escalation process (which everyone is entitled to use): a) call Tech support with your current PMR number b) ask for the duty manager c) explain that you are not getting timely response and ask to raise the priority of the PMR d) rinse and repeat until you get to Sev 1 if you have to (you shouldn't have to, but it's been known to happen). e) also, if you are still at support level 1, tell the duty manager to send you to level2, then to level3 if you don't get appropriate response. You should have an IBM Tivoli rep (probably from the education division, which will make it harder to apply pressure. But you should still be able to find your rep.) Tell them what is going on. If you STILL don't get appropriate response from Tech Support, they can open a crit sit, which will result in weekly (if not daily) concalls with Tech Support and marketing and you until it gets resolved. If it gets to this level, you will have more IBM'ers in your lap than you can find time to talk to. I am the first to say that NONE of this should be necessary. But sometimes you have to do the pushing from your end to get it resolved. Raise hell and you will get results. All that being said, the AC is very very VERY sensitive to the browser you are using. It is technically supported only on IE7/8 and Firefox 3.5/3.6. Do yourself a favor and download a copy of Firefox 3.6 and try it. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim Neal Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 5:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Admin Center Issues Importance: High Hi All, I have been working off and on for about four months with IBM Tech support to resolve an issue with Admin Center and so far no luck! I am hoping there is one person in the world that can tell me why I can't get Admin Center 6.3 to function on a Windows 2008 R2 System. I installed both the Reporting and Admin Center and there were no errors reported. However, when I open the Tivoli Integrated Portal, there is no option that says Tivoli Storage Manager and nothing that looks anything like the online documentation. I am at the end of my rope with this and would appreciate any assistance. Thanks much! Jim Neal Sr. TSM Admin Storage and Backup Group U.C. Berkeley [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. ***
MGMT CLASS issue
I have a node that was using a no expiration policy. I'm now attempting to return it to normal. A server-side OPTION SET had been used to set specify an INCLUDE stmt with a no-expire mgmt class. The option set has been revised to a normal set as used by most other nodes. When running EXPIRE INVENTORY, the node still displays a no expire management class for SOME of the drives. The node's dms.opt file does not specify a mgmt class on the drives. Where else would I find a property that is assigning the no-expire??? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 [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: 6.2.4.0 Server
I've been running 6.2.4.0 for several weeks, following that same advice from IBM. I got trapped by the re-org issue; it's been stable since then. 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 Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] 6.2.4.0 Server Has anyone tried 6.2.4.0 server yet? We are planning on upgrading to that version from 6.2.3.100. IBM has suggested we go to that version due to a DB reorg bug. Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you. [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: Address in ANR0406I message
I fight firewall issues with a couple of tests. From the TSM server: PING IPofNode TELNET IPofNode ListeningPort Typically, the node is listening on 1501 I believe. It should be specified in the node dsm.opt file. Try stopping/starting the nodes TSM Scheduler service, then try the TELNET again. If PING works, but the TELNET doesn't, you've likely got a firewall block. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - 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 Thomas Denier Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 1:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Address in ANR0406I message We are seeing strange behavior with one of our client systems since it was moved behind a firewall. The client is a Windows XP system with TSM 6.2.2.0 client code. It sends backups to a TSM 6.2.2.0 server running under zSeries Linux. Before the firewall was introduced, the client was able to run backups with prompted mode scheduling. When the firewall was introduced, the client was given a new IP address and the old address was transferred to the firewall. The backups stopped running when the firewall was introduced. The messages reporting failed attempts to contact the client system indicated that the TSM server was trying to contact the client using the old IP address. Backups started running again after the client system administrator added a 'tcpclientaddress' option specifying the new IP address to dsm.opt. According to the firewall administrator, the only traffic the firewall is currently blocking is for automatic distribution of software patches (the system is subject to regulatory requirements for explicit control of configuration changes). The 'TCP/IP Address' line in the output from 'query node' with 'f=d' shows the new address, and did so before the introduction of the 'tcpclientaddress' option. All ANR0406I session start messages for the client show the old address (now the firewall address), and did so before the introduction of the 'tcpclientaddress' option. According to the firewall administrator, the firewall is not configured for NAT (Network Address Translation). I suspect that the address in an ANR0406I message is the source address of one of the packets involved in the TCP session initiation process, but I cannot find any documentation that says this explicitly. Does anyone know of an authoritative statement on this point? Does anyone have a theory that would account for the combination of behaviors described above? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [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. ***
AdminCenter 6.3.1 Users
Anyone trying to use Admin Center 6.3.1.000? I initially saw the problem in 6.3.0, but 6.3.1.000 still has issues in my shop. I've installed it on Windows 2008 R2. Tried IE 8 and Firefox 3.6.24 as the browser. In both browsers the Minimize button on a window appears to simply blank out the content of that given window, not minimize it. Also having trouble using Search Activity Log when I go from ServerA to ServerB. The search on ServerA works fine, but clicking OK to close that sever and then selecting another server (ServerA or any other) and the search returns a portlet error. Work around is to close the Manage Servers tab, then reopen to select the server to be searched. Anyone have a working install? I've got a PMR open on the search issue. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: Upgrading server version to 6.3
Thanks for the detail. Not exactly the same issue. I was trying to upgrade Monitoring from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1. The log files were not recording ANY meaningful information. Currently, the PMR advice was to uninstall 6.3 Monitoring and install fresh with 6.3.1. Did that, but don't consider that acceptable in a production environment. I'm working on a test system and can do about anything I want. Got 6.3.1 installed, but haven't had time to configure it and then attempt an upgrade to 6.3.1 Admin Center on that same server. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Chavdar Cholev Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 2:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrading server version to 6.3 Hi sorry for late answer... so my steps were (I am nit sure if you are in the same situation): 1. Execute steps to backup deployment engine (if you are didn't do, please do it as described in upgrade procedure) 2. When I started upgrade I saw progress indicator hanged on installing TSM server. so here short my steps to solve that: 1. Check deployment engine on which step hangs (it is in machine plan) - _uninstall - plan - install- machinePlan_host I saw here that there was only first step, which was TSM server. 2. On deployment engine (DE), there are three log files, move some here out of DE directory 3. Set TSM service to start manually 4. Install TSM server manually from PackageSteps 5. DO NOT TRY TO START TSM AT THIS STEP 6. Start DE again .. After these steps, upgrade from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1 passed successfully Regards Chavdar On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov wrote: Do you have a PMR for the deployment manager hang issue? How did you solve that problem? I'm trying to upgrade from Tivoli Monitoring for TSM 6.3.0 to 6.3.1.000 and have a problem with Deployment Plan. The text from the monitoring intalllog.log: Deployement Plan execution general failure: Status: FATAL ERROR Additional Notes: FATAL ERROR - The Deployement Plan Execution failed. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Chavdar Cholev Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrading server version to 6.3 There is a tech note ... see update instruction in IBM publib boulder http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.install.doc%2Ft_srv_upgrade.html I did upgrade: Server 1 = from 6.2.1 - to 6.2.3.10 and from here to 6.3.0 no problem, but from v6.3.0 to v6.3.1 there was a problem (deployment manager hanged) Server 2 == from 6.2.3.10 to v6.3.1 no problem ~ 1-1.5 hours to upgrade for 7GB TSM DB 2012/4/12 Robert Ouzen rou...@univ.haifa.ac.il: Hi to all I am thinking of upgrading my TSM server version 6.2.3.0 under Windows O.S to TSM server version 6.3.1.0. Any recommendations , suggestions ? Need to upgrade first to version 6.3.0.0 ? Any tips will be appreciate . Regard Robert
TSM 6.2.3 DB2 Deadlock
I find my DB2 database in a deadlock condition. It's been deadlocked for about 40 hours. It's run fine for many, many months until this weekend. Running on Windows 2008 R2. During node backup, migration kicked in (as it does frequently). But, apparently, migration is trying to move a file that a node is backing up? Anyone have a suggestion? I've opened a PMR but don't have a response yet. I hesitate to halt/restart the TSM service without some guidance. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: TSM 6.2.3 DB2 Deadlock
Thanks everyone... IBM had me follow IC88605. The issue was table/index reorg kicked in during the weekend when our schedules are different. I've been running this server for MONTHS without any problem. I edited the serv.opt file, commented out the reorg parms and halted/started TSM. I'll leave reorg disabled until I can install 6.2.4. Thanks again to everyone. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark, Margaret Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 12:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.3 DB2 Deadlock We had this back in February, when a reorg deadlocked with a migration. Get help right away, and while you're waiting, check APAR: IC81261 - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 8:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.3 DB2 Deadlock I find my DB2 database in a deadlock condition. It's been deadlocked for about 40 hours. It's run fine for many, many months until this weekend. Running on Windows 2008 R2. During node backup, migration kicked in (as it does frequently). But, apparently, migration is trying to move a file that a node is backing up? Anyone have a suggestion? I've opened a PMR but don't have a response yet. I hesitate to halt/restart the TSM service without some guidance. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: Upgrading server version to 6.3
Do you have a PMR for the deployment manager hang issue? How did you solve that problem? I'm trying to upgrade from Tivoli Monitoring for TSM 6.3.0 to 6.3.1.000 and have a problem with Deployment Plan. The text from the monitoring intalllog.log: Deployement Plan execution general failure: Status: FATAL ERROR Additional Notes: FATAL ERROR - The Deployement Plan Execution failed. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Chavdar Cholev Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrading server version to 6.3 There is a tech note ... see update instruction in IBM publib boulder http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.install.doc%2Ft_srv_upgrade.html I did upgrade: Server 1 = from 6.2.1 - to 6.2.3.10 and from here to 6.3.0 no problem, but from v6.3.0 to v6.3.1 there was a problem (deployment manager hanged) Server 2 == from 6.2.3.10 to v6.3.1 no problem ~ 1-1.5 hours to upgrade for 7GB TSM DB 2012/4/12 Robert Ouzen rou...@univ.haifa.ac.il: Hi to all I am thinking of upgrading my TSM server version 6.2.3.0 under Windows O.S to TSM server version 6.3.1.0. Any recommendations , suggestions ? Need to upgrade first to version 6.3.0.0 ? Any tips will be appreciate . Regard Robert
Monitoring/Admin Center on VM Server?
Is anyone using a VM as the server for TSM Monitoring/Admin Center/Common Reporting roles? We're considering placing a VM at a distant site in a DR type role instead of physical hardware. It would be easy to move a VM image compared to driving out to rack a physical server. Our VMCenter managers will have the fun job to drive and set hardware. Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: TSM 5.5.1.0 Management Console - Email
Login to the server where TSM is installed and open the Tivoli Management Console. Right click on Tivoli Storage Manager, choose Properties. That should give you tabs with Operational Reports, Operational Monitors, Report Service, Email Account, and Summary Info. Click the Email Account tab. Set the IP of your new email server. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Leonard, Matthew Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.5.1.0 Management Console - Email All, We are changing our exchange environment over to 2010 and notice that the reports that are sent out are being sent through our old Exchange environment. I looked in the TSM Management Console, and don't see where I could set the exchange server. Just email address to send to. Does anyone know where to change the exchange server that the email is being sent to? Matthew J. Leonard Network Infrastructure Administrator AtlasAir Worldwide Holdings matthew.leon...@atlasair.commailto:matthew.leon...@atlasair.com Office: 914.701.8715
Re: TSM 6.2 Administration Center
Thanks for the link Neil. I'm using Firefox 3.6.24. I'm not seeing the issues you have re Nodes and Tabs on Client Nodes and Backup Sets. Also don't have your Error 500 Manage Servers. The only problem I've seen on Admin 6.3 Manage Servers is moving to a second server from the same Manage Servers tab. Example: - Open Manage Servers, see all servers in list. - Pick one (Server Properties). - Work on it for awhile, Activity Log, whatever. - Click OK or Cancel to close that server. - the Tab returns to the original list of servers. - Pick another server. - Searching within the activity log creates a PortletException error. - Any other work (Sessions, database/log, admin schedules) seems to work fine. Closing the Manage Servers tab and restarting it always lets me pick a server and search Activity Log seems to be only when I'm searching the log on the second server to be chosen that the error occurs. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Neil Schofield Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Administration Center In response to Harold's email, the APAR that describes the extraneous services with TSM AC 6.3.0 is here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1uid=swg1IC80444 I've confirmed that it is resolved in AC 6.3.1. The problems I've experienced in Chrome and Firefox are: - Nodes and tabs not displayed correctly on Client Nodes and Backup Sets page - Server Properties links on Manage Servers page give the following errors: Error 500: SRVE0295E: Error reported: 500 Regards Neil Schofield Technical Leader Yorkshire Water Services Ltd. Spotted a leak? If you spot a leak please report it immediately. Call us on 0800 57 3553 or go to http://www.yorkshirewater.com/leaks Get a free water saving pack Don't forget to request your free water and energy saving pack, it could save you money on your utility bills and help you conserve water. http://www.yorkshirewater.com/savewater The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available at http://www.keldagroup.com/email.htm Yorkshire Water Services Limited Registered Office Western House, Halifax Road, Bradford, BD6 2SZ Registered in England and Wales No 2366682
Re: TSM 6.2 server restarts
Our servers, all Windows, run with a once/month restart. That happens when I apply Windows updates. Not all Windows updates require a boot, but I take advantage of the event to do a quick restart while clients are aware I'm doing maintenance. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 server restarts We have fairly recently started running a TSM 6.2.2.0 server under zSeries Linux. Some of my co-workers have brought up the idea of scheduling periodic restarts of the server code for performance reasons. Are other TSM 6.2 sites seeing any sign of performance problems resulting from long periods of continuous operation? Thomas Denier
Re: TSM 6.2 Administration Center supported browsers
The IE7 issue I had/have with 6.2 Admin Center is extremely slow rewrite of the screen. Click any link, grab cup and head to coffee pot, come back, the new screen MAY have been written. Firefox 3.6.24 displays the selected item in a matter of a second or two. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Gergana V Markova Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Administration Center supported browsers Michael, IE7 is actually supported for Admin Center 6.2 -- as per section Additional Software: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467 MS Internet Explorer starting with 6.0 is supported with Java 1.5.0. MS Internet Explorer 8.0 and later is not currently supported. What are the issues you are seeing with IE7 for Admin Center 6.2? Alternatively, IE8 is supported in AC 6.3. That version also supports FF3.5 and 3.6. IE9 or Chrome are not supported yet. Thanks. Regards/Pozdravi, Gergana | | ~\\ ! //~ | | ( ( 'o . o' ) )Imagination can change the equation . . | |( w ) | | Gergana V Markova gmark...@us.ibm.com | | IBM Tivoli Storage Manager(TSM) - Server Development From: Michael P Hizny mhi...@binghamton.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 03/13/2012 01:23 PM Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Administration Center We recently upgrade TSM to version 6.2 and have found out that the Administration Center web interface will not work with any newer browsers. It is certified to work with ie 6.0 and Firefox 2.0. Has anyone come up with a work around to get it to work with ie7, 8, or 9? Or Chrome?
Re: TSM 6.2 Administration Center
I didn't have any issues with the 6.3 install path; I used D:\TSMImages\AdminCenter\install.exe and installed to D:\IBM\Tivoli. This was on Windows 2008 R2. Only install problem was the itmuser DB2 Credential test failed. Ended up putting that account name in the local Administrators Group; then install ran just fine. What are the extraneous services? I've not had any problems with Firefox 3.6.24; not allowed to use IE 8 or IE 9. Not sure about Chrome; haven't tried to install it. My major problem in Admin Center 6.x is the loss of all the scripted email reports from the 5.x Operations system. Creating those in BIRT was a disaster; trying to do anything in BIRT was a disaster. I'm trying to wrap my hands around the 6.3 Cognos reporting tool; but can't get it to send a scheduled email report. Have a PMR open on that, with the guidance being a tech note that I already knew about. Also found that 6.3 Monitoring cannot collect data from TSM 5.5.2 Servers. I thought 5.5.x was on the compatibility list, but that PMR resulted in a 'there are differences' response and 6.3 isn't compatible. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Neil Schofield Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Administration Center I personally would not advocate moving to Administration Center 6.3 - I've had a nightmare with it starting with the installation. On Windows, the depth of the directory structure on the unpacked install media is so long that placing it more than one directory down causes the install to fail due to the length of the longest path to the files. It then installs some extraneous services that must then be disabled. (The latter problem is fixed in 6.3.1.) Once installed the performance under IE8 / IE9 is so slow as to make it unusable. Performance is better under the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox but there are links and functionality that work in IE which simply give errors in these other browsers. I've had a PMR open for a month now to do with performance under IE but it seems to be going nowhere. Meanwhile I've got a bunch of users who are openly revolting against it and want to go back to v5.5 of the TSM ISC (which to me tells you everything you need to know about 6.3!) Regards Neil Schofield Technical Leader Yorkshire Water Services Ltd. Spotted a leak? If you spot a leak please report it immediately. Call us on 0800 57 3553 or go to http://www.yorkshirewater.com/leaks Get a free water saving pack Don't forget to request your free water and energy saving pack, it could save you money on your utility bills and help you conserve water. http://www.yorkshirewater.com/savewater The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available at http://www.keldagroup.com/email.htm Yorkshire Water Services Limited Registered Office Western House, Halifax Road, Bradford, BD6 2SZ Registered in England and Wales No 2366682
Re: Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010?
Thanks Margaret... you provided the crisp and shortened version. We fought the setup for several days, but those are the commands we would have used. I was answering off the top of my head yesterday. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark, Margaret Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? A few additional comments (things we found out the hard way): For Data Protection for Exchange to work, the TSM Client Agent must be installed. The *TDP clients need to be set up using USERID=NONE, after which we set the proxy access using server commands like this: register admin ExchangeServerTDP ExchangeServer1 passexp=0 register admin ExchangeServer1 ExchangeServer1 passexp=0 grant authority ExchangeServerTDP class=node authority=owner node=ExchangeServerTDP grant authority ExchangeServer1 class=node authority=owner node=ExchangeServer1 grant proxynode target=ExchangeServerTDP agent=ExchangeServer1 - Margaret Clark -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? I've not looked for a Redbook, we fought the initial setup for several days, using PMRs to get through several of the steps. The TSM server is 6.2.3.0, running on Windows 2008 R2. The major points that I recall: Created a new Domain, with only one Mgmt Class, thus the default. In that domain: Created a nodename that is used at the BA-Client. Let's call this ExchangeServer1. Created a second nodename that is used at the TDP-Client. Let's call this ExchangeServerTDP. ExchangeServerTDP displays ExchangeServer1 as a Proxy Authority: Via the AdminCenter GUI, open ExchangeServerTDP, click Proxy Authority, add ExchangeSever1. Both nodes (ExchangeServerTDP and ExchangeServer1) were given client owner authority level in the TSM server Administrators list. Created two schedules: one for C:\EXCFULL.CMD; one for C:\EXCINCR.CMD. Assigned the schedules to ExchangeServerTDP. I didn't do all the TDP install and VSS setup testing; that was done by the Exchange Server admin. I can only work with the TSM Server side details. The TDP install apparently created the excfull.cmd and excincr.cmd files as examples for customization. I recall the Exchange Admin was impressed by the 6.3 TDP GUI and how some initial testing for VSS setup was fairly easy. Our knees were very bloody getting through all of it; and at the moment scheduled backup appears to be successful only if the TDP Scheduler Service has logon as set to a domain account that has Exchange permissions. We've not seen that as a requirement in the setup guide. Recall the phrase: Your mileage may vary! Good luck with it. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sheridan, Peter T. Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Do any of you have a runbook or set of procedures to follow to get TSM setup to backup Exchange 2010 ? I have see the manual/power shell script, etc.. but am still struggling with the setup. Thanks in advance for any help, Pete. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 9:39 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Hi That wont work since you will need domain-level administrator rights to backup Exchange 2010. Either create a new account with domain-level administrator rights and the role Administrator in Exchange, or use your existing Administrator account. Local System doesnt have domain-level administrator rights. Regards Daniel Sparrman Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Växel: 08-754 98 00 Fax: 08-754 97 30 daniel.sparr...@exist.se http://www.existgruppen.se Posthusgatan 1 761 30 NORRTÄLJE -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Datum: 03/12/2012 15:35 Ärende: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Is anyone using TDP 6.3 to run VSS backup against Exchange 2010 DAG? We're fighting a problem where a scheduled backup is reported
Re: Exchange 2010 backup and restore in DAG configuration
Regarding using asnode (mentioned by Stefan) ... I see page 10 of the DP for Exchange install guide says: Do not set the ASNODENAME option in the dsm.opt file when using DP or Exchange. Setting ASNODENAME can cause VSS backups and VSS restores to fail. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange 2010 backup and restore in DAG configuration Hi Stefan, As you pointed out, if you back up from different servers, the backups are managed separately. This is why the User's Guide states that the best practice is to back up from the same server every time. It is a known requirement that it would be better if DP/Exchange could back them up from anywhere and manage them as a single entity on the TSM Server. If you are really interested in this aspect, please have your IBM rep send Mary Anne Filosa (IBM TSM Beta Coordinator) an email. There is a beta program that you might want to be a part of. Until then, there are customers that use the same DP/Exchange NODENAME on all of their Exchange Server to help mitigate some of the issues if you back them up from different Exchange servers. It does not solve the problem completely, but it does back them up under the same NODENAME. Again, the best practice as quoted from the book: Backups for a given database should be run from the same Exchange server, if possible. Backups performed from different Exchange servers are managed separately. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 03/13/2012 04:48:25 AM: From: Stefan Folkerts stefan.folke...@gmail.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 03/13/2012 04:50 AM Subject: Exchange 2010 backup and restore in DAG configuration Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Hello all, I am working with a customer who has an Microsoft Exchange 2010 DAG setup and wants to implement TSM backup for mail. DAG uses active and passive databases and, of course, the customer only wants to backup the passive databases (replica's). Each database has two passive copy's for redundancy. Each Exchange server has it's own node on the TSM server the passive / active database float around the Exchange cluster and thus the node that makes the backup changes. This makes restores a bit of an issue because the data is spread amongs multiple TSM nodes, we also have our doubts about the expiration of data with this configuration. We currently run ; tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=D:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\dsm.opt /EXCLUDEDAGACTIVE /configfile=D:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\tdpexc.cfg The documentation doesn't give much information rather than (PDF warning) ; http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/ com.ibm.itsm.mail.exc.doc/b_dp_mail_exc_guide_win.pdf Acrobat page 34/35. Can we, like we do with VMware use 'asnode' or something similar to place the backup data in a single nodename or are there any other clever supported tricks? Regards, Stefan
Re: TSM 6.2 Administration Center
I had trouble installing 6.3 Admin Center; had an error on the DB2 Credentials test that itmuser could not be validated. I had to temporarily put itmuser into the Local Administrators Group. Install then ran OK. Group Policy later stripped itmuser out of Admins Group; I haven't noticed any issues. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sheridan, Peter T. Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Administration Center I could not get the 6.3 administration center to work in my environment using either IE or firefox. As a result, went back to the latest 6.2 version. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Erwann SIMON Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:33 PM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Administration Center Hi Michael, Consider using Administration Center 6.3 instead of 6.2 as it's'supported with newer browsers ans TSM 6.2 server. --Message d'origine-- De: Michael P Hizny Expéditeur : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Répondre à: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Objet: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Administration Center Envoyé: 13 mars 2012 21:20 We recently upgrade TSM to version 6.2 and have found out that the Administration Center web interface will not work with any newer browsers. It is certified to work with ie 6.0 and Firefox 2.0. Has anyone come up with a work around to get it to work with ie7, 8, or 9? Or Chrome? -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON
TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010?
Is anyone using TDP 6.3 to run VSS backup against Exchange 2010 DAG? We're fighting a problem where a scheduled backup is reported as successful from the TSM server perspective, but according to the TDP/Exchange manager the backup never runs. He doesn't see any corresponding backup history in the TDP GUI. Setting the TDP Scheduler service to Log On As a domain account (not Local System) seems to let scheduled backup work, but the TDP/Exchange manager wants to avoid password change polices by using Local System as he has for years with Exchange 2007. We've got a PMR open, with no progress other than try a domain account. Harold Vandeventer
Re: Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010?
I've not looked for a Redbook, we fought the initial setup for several days, using PMRs to get through several of the steps. The TSM server is 6.2.3.0, running on Windows 2008 R2. The major points that I recall: Created a new Domain, with only one Mgmt Class, thus the default. In that domain: Created a nodename that is used at the BA-Client. Let's call this ExchangeServer1. Created a second nodename that is used at the TDP-Client. Let's call this ExchangeServerTDP. ExchangeServerTDP displays ExchangeServer1 as a Proxy Authority: Via the AdminCenter GUI, open ExchangeServerTDP, click Proxy Authority, add ExchangeSever1. Both nodes (ExchangeServerTDP and ExchangeServer1) were given client owner authority level in the TSM server Administrators list. Created two schedules: one for C:\EXCFULL.CMD; one for C:\EXCINCR.CMD. Assigned the schedules to ExchangeServerTDP. I didn't do all the TDP install and VSS setup testing; that was done by the Exchange Server admin. I can only work with the TSM Server side details. The TDP install apparently created the excfull.cmd and excincr.cmd files as examples for customization. I recall the Exchange Admin was impressed by the 6.3 TDP GUI and how some initial testing for VSS setup was fairly easy. Our knees were very bloody getting through all of it; and at the moment scheduled backup appears to be successful only if the TDP Scheduler Service has logon as set to a domain account that has Exchange permissions. We've not seen that as a requirement in the setup guide. Recall the phrase: Your mileage may vary! Good luck with it. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sheridan, Peter T. Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Do any of you have a runbook or set of procedures to follow to get TSM setup to backup Exchange 2010 ? I have see the manual/power shell script, etc.. but am still struggling with the setup. Thanks in advance for any help, Pete. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 9:39 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Hi That wont work since you will need domain-level administrator rights to backup Exchange 2010. Either create a new account with domain-level administrator rights and the role Administrator in Exchange, or use your existing Administrator account. Local System doesnt have domain-level administrator rights. Regards Daniel Sparrman Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Växel: 08-754 98 00 Fax: 08-754 97 30 daniel.sparr...@exist.se http://www.existgruppen.se Posthusgatan 1 761 30 NORRTÄLJE -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Datum: 03/12/2012 15:35 Ärende: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Is anyone using TDP 6.3 to run VSS backup against Exchange 2010 DAG? We're fighting a problem where a scheduled backup is reported as successful from the TSM server perspective, but according to the TDP/Exchange manager the backup never runs. He doesn't see any corresponding backup history in the TDP GUI. Setting the TDP Scheduler service to Log On As a domain account (not Local System) seems to let scheduled backup work, but the TDP/Exchange manager wants to avoid password change polices by using Local System as he has for years with Exchange 2007. We've got a PMR open, with no progress other than try a domain account. Harold Vandeventer
Re: Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010?
I believe the answer is yes. I know there are two physical servers, DAG, and active/passive cross between them. I don't think that created any issues for our Exchange manager; we mostly fought problems that were solved by the proxy relationship and administrator role/permission for the clients. The install guide has some steps to test your setup. Something about using the GUI to do query tdp, query tsm and query exchange. Also several tests for DISKSHADOW to test VSS. Typical IBM documentation suggests doing those tests before you intall TDP. Our guy was following the book, installed TDP then tested VSS.. Good luck with it. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sheridan, Peter T. Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 2:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? This is great and thanks for your help. I will give it a try in the next week. By any chance, do you have active/passive Databases in a dag across different physical Exchange servers ? Was wondering if there are different setup requirements for this type of scenario ? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 2:23 PM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? I've not looked for a Redbook, we fought the initial setup for several days, using PMRs to get through several of the steps. The TSM server is 6.2.3.0, running on Windows 2008 R2. The major points that I recall: Created a new Domain, with only one Mgmt Class, thus the default. In that domain: Created a nodename that is used at the BA-Client. Let's call this ExchangeServer1. Created a second nodename that is used at the TDP-Client. Let's call this ExchangeServerTDP. ExchangeServerTDP displays ExchangeServer1 as a Proxy Authority: Via the AdminCenter GUI, open ExchangeServerTDP, click Proxy Authority, add ExchangeSever1. Both nodes (ExchangeServerTDP and ExchangeServer1) were given client owner authority level in the TSM server Administrators list. Created two schedules: one for C:\EXCFULL.CMD; one for C:\EXCINCR.CMD. Assigned the schedules to ExchangeServerTDP. I didn't do all the TDP install and VSS setup testing; that was done by the Exchange Server admin. I can only work with the TSM Server side details. The TDP install apparently created the excfull.cmd and excincr.cmd files as examples for customization. I recall the Exchange Admin was impressed by the 6.3 TDP GUI and how some initial testing for VSS setup was fairly easy. Our knees were very bloody getting through all of it; and at the moment scheduled backup appears to be successful only if the TDP Scheduler Service has logon as set to a domain account that has Exchange permissions. We've not seen that as a requirement in the setup guide. Recall the phrase: Your mileage may vary! Good luck with it. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sheridan, Peter T. Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Do any of you have a runbook or set of procedures to follow to get TSM setup to backup Exchange 2010 ? I have see the manual/power shell script, etc.. but am still struggling with the setup. Thanks in advance for any help, Pete. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 9:39 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: [ADSM-L] Ang: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Hi That wont work since you will need domain-level administrator rights to backup Exchange 2010. Either create a new account with domain-level administrator rights and the role Administrator in Exchange, or use your existing Administrator account. Local System doesnt have domain-level administrator rights. Regards Daniel Sparrman Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Växel: 08-754 98 00 Fax: 08-754 97 30 daniel.sparr...@exist.se http://www.existgruppen.se Posthusgatan 1 761 30 NORRTÄLJE -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Datum: 03/12/2012 15:35 Ärende: [ADSM-L] TDP 6.3 and Exchange 2010? Is anyone using TDP 6.3 to run VSS backup against Exchange
Re: Deleting STG POOL
Thanks to everyone for the continued suggestions. The DEL VOL volname DISCARD=NO was successful, deleted the volumes without any issues. I had tried various reclaim/migrate tasks, Q CONTENT, etc; everything implied they were empty. It boils down to why didn't the volumes get deleted when the initial reclaim processes ran. Thanks again for all the suggestions. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Deleting STG POOL On 01/20/2012 03:50 PM, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: I'm confident they're empty; just trying to prove it before I delete. CONTENT isn't providing anything, and I can display content of volumes in other pools. Are they PENDING? - Allen S. Rout
Deleting STG POOL
The goal: delete a storage pool. I've migrated a storage pool to a new pool. Three volumes remain in the pool, such as H:\ DSKT07P\11BF.BFS, which disallow the delete. % Util on them is 0; status is full. Q CONTENT H:\DSKT07P\11BF.BFS returns ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. Same result for the other two volumes. Q CONTENT volumename against the new pool does display files. I believe that means the volumes on the old pool are in fact empty and I can delete them individually. Correct? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.govmailto:dane.woodr...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: Deleting STG POOL
I'm confident they're empty; just trying to prove it before I delete. CONTENT isn't providing anything, and I can display content of volumes in other pools. Q VOL name FORMAT=DETAILED indicates Pct Util =0 Volume status =Full Pct reclaimable space = 100 Not in error state DEL VOL name DISCARD=NO should be a safe command. If the volume contains files, the volume will not be deleted. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Deleting STG POOL Eventhough they don't show any content, you could always do a delete volume ... discarddata=yes for each volume. From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 01/20/2012 02:17 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] Deleting STG POOL Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU The goal: delete a storage pool. I've migrated a storage pool to a new pool. Three volumes remain in the pool, such as H:\ DSKT07P\11BF.BFS, which disallow the delete. % Util on them is 0; status is full. Q CONTENT H:\DSKT07P\11BF.BFS returns ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. Same result for the other two volumes. Q CONTENT volumename against the new pool does display files. I believe that means the volumes on the old pool are in fact empty and I can delete them individually. Correct? Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.govmailto:dane.woodr...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Delete STGPOOL issue
I'm attempting to delete STGPOOLs on TSM 5.5.4 and 5.5.2. The content has been migrated to new pools; queries against the pools to be deleted indicate 0 M estimated capacity. All scripting has been modified to use the new pools. Attempts to delete the old pools get ANR2385E indicating the pool is defined as a Next or Reclamation pool for another pool. I can't find the alleged pool by looking a properties of each; the pools to be deleted are not listed as Next in any pool via the Admin Center. Is there a command line command that will tell me what pool is the another pool? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.govmailto:dane.woodr...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: Delete STGPOOL issue
Ah, found it via Q STG F=D. One of the pools has a RECLAIM STORAGE POOL specified. Thanks Jim. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Delete STGPOOL issue Harold, Use 'q stg' to see which storage pool has the target pool defined as 'next'. Update the storage pool definition so the target pool is no longer 'next'. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:15 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: [ADSM-L] Delete STGPOOL issue I'm attempting to delete STGPOOLs on TSM 5.5.4 and 5.5.2. The content has been migrated to new pools; queries against the pools to be deleted indicate 0 M estimated capacity. All scripting has been modified to use the new pools. Attempts to delete the old pools get ANR2385E indicating the pool is defined as a Next or Reclamation pool for another pool. I can't find the alleged pool by looking a properties of each; the pools to be deleted are not listed as Next in any pool via the Admin Center. Is there a command line command that will tell me what pool is the another pool? Thanks. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.govmailto:dane.woodr...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments
We are also looking for that cookbook. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
