Re: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell

Some hints ( Novell 5 ) 1) User with full administrator rights 2) entry in dsm.opt DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL NDS 3) usefull examples EXCLUDE.DIR sys:QUEUES EXCLUDE.DIR sys:TIVOLI EXCLUDE.DIR sys:SYSTEM\CSLIB\LOGS\SMLOGS EXCLUDE.DIR

Re: Upgrade of ADSM to TSM

Hi all, I am upgrading ADSM v3.1.2.20 to TSM v4.1. Can anybody who has done this please tell me how to do it? Do I have to upgrade ADSM first to the latest fix which is v3.1.2.90 or I must just upgrade. When upgrading do I shut ADSM down or do I unistall ADSM then install TSM? Regards Mpho

Tool for ADSM Connect Agent

Does anybody know a tool for ADSM Connect Agent V2.1 similar to the tdposync utility of TDP V2.2? Thanks in advance.

Re: Can't empty diskpool volumes!?!

Hi Wanda! Your suggestion works!! Thanks! I love you! All others who responded: thank you all VERY much!!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 15:26 To: 'ADSM: Dist

Re: Macintosh OSX Support

Hi Bob! No official statement here, but I heard that OSX will be supported in TSM 5.1. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Bob Booth - UIUC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 20:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

logpool size for 2 gb RAM

how much do i have to set the value for LOGPOOLSIZE for 2gb RAM . my buffpoolsize is already set to 262144. even then, my db cache hit pct is well below 99% i,e. 96% thanks in advance. regards sreekumar.

How to extract a db2-backup 64Gb

Hi, To restore our db2-db to another RS6000 (without TSM) I want to extract a DB2/TSM backup file from TSM to a filesystem, compress it, send to the other machine and restore it. With a backup to disk that works ok, because the db2 backup command splits up the file in parts of 64GB (an

Re: Installing TSM 3.7 packaged Scripts

There is a file with useful scripts that can be installed: /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/webimages/scripts.smp (We're running a 4.2 server on AIX, maybe the file has a different location for 3.7) Regards, Alexander Tony Sinclair wrote: Some time back I took a TSM class and during this class it

Re: transmitting the result of an sql query to a script ? + loop struture ?

Hi Martin, and all folks that already answered my question ... First of all, thanks a lot for everyone that sent me an answer, most of the time not the one I expected, but never mind ;-) Martin, you're absolutely right, but in my case the problem was not to avoid reclamation occuring, but to

AW: logpool size for 2 gb RAM

hi, in our installation we have 2GB RAM, BUFFPOOLSIZE=65536,LOGPOOLSIZE=512 With these settings we have a DB-CACHE-HIT-PCT between 98.5% and 99.5% (we reset the values every day). Best regards Chris -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pothula S Paparao [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Antwort: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell

Hi Miles, a) the TSA-Modules need a user and password to connect to the NDS and the System you want to backup (local or remote), just like a client login. For backup this user must have read rights to all files you want to backup. Password expiration for the Netware-User should be disabled. b)

Re: Upgrade of ADSM to TSM

Mpho, I recently went from ADSM 3.1.2.55 to TSM 4.1.4.0. I followed the instructions in the Quick Start guide. Prior to the upgrade, I backed up the O/S and ran two backups of the ADSM database. I shutdown ADSM, and proceeded with the upgrade. All went very smoothly. I installed 4.1 from the

HELP IN USING API for Archive/Retrive

Hi, I need to Archive/Retrive functionality from my program. My ADSM version Server AIX-RS/6000 - 3.1.2.1 Client (API) IRIX- 3.1.0.6 I am planing to use API calls. If that is not fessible, I may use dsmc scripts. Thank you = Ajith C Programmer GEOPIC,

Re: Netware Client Password failure

Hi Stormy, I had the same problem with my NetWare 5.1 servers with just the same error. I solve the problem by backing off to 4.1.3 version of client and implementing Novell NetWare TSA nlms tsa5up7, witch is available for download at

Re: Domains Question

Paul, after the change of the policy domains to the new one, the first backup will bind all the active files to the new mgmt class and related storage pool, and you will have to migrate your inactive data by migrating the entire old storage pool to the new stg pool? Is there a more precise way

Re: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell

Thank you. With specific regards to #4, the Novell servers are set up (so I'm told I don't administer them) in a cluster with many 'shared' volumes, and of course only one node has a volume 'online' at a time. But during a failover situation a node may have a volume mounted that it does not

Working with two servers

Hi TSMr´s I´m new in TSM, so sorry if my question is a little bit dumb !!! I have one TSM server (server 1) running and in one office and I would like to add a new server (server 2) to work together in other room. Is this possible ? Can I make backup on server 1 and restore on server 2 easily

Old Backupsets

A Q VOLHIST TYPE=BACKUPSET lists some old backupsets whose retention period has long past. Q BACKUPSET does not show these backupsets. A DELETE BACKUPSET for them reports No match found using this criteria. How do I remove these from VOLHIST so I can reuse the volumes?

upgrade from ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2 on AIX

Guru's Does anyone have any experience performing an upgrade from ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2 on AIX? Any tips, tricks or gotcha's? If someone has done this before I would sure like to know what the steps where, how long it took and if they felt it was

AW: Upgrade of ADSM to TSM

Hi Mpho, look at the manual Tivoli Storage Manager Quick Start, which contains a detailed description on Migrate Install. I have experienced a migrate install (same levels) a few months ago on AIX and didn´t have any problems. You just have to upgrade and there´s no need to uninstall. Hope this

Re: Domains Question

I agree with most of what Paul says, except that multiple domains are required. His arguments are traditional, but you can also provide all functionality needed with a single domain. Separate data and definitions with management classes and client options sets. Jeff Bach Home Office Open

Re: Working with two servers

-Luciano- It seems to me that you want to set up Server-to-Server communications or Server-to-Server virtual volumes. All of the DO's DON'Ts should be in the Tivoli Storage Manager for xxx: Administrator's Guide. Hope this is helpful... Regards, Demetrius -Original Message- From:

AIX Web client restore issues

Here is a problem report from a user trying to restore lots of files. My AIX/Unix guy has an outstanding problem report open with Tivoli, that is related to this kind of issue. Also, a previous post from me about having problems upgrading from the 4.1.3 client to 4.2.1 is related. I have

Re: Domains Question

The only good reasons I see to having more than one domain are: 1. Getting different default management classes. 2. Delegating policy administration to different administrators. In large environments, it is often desirable to allow system admins to do TSM policy administration for their

Re: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell

Miles, The short answer is you will get filespaces for each real server that you backup from. That means to do a restore, you'll either need to know which node had the volume during the most recent backup or do a restore if newer from all of the filespaces. I am told that Novell has

Re: upgrade from ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2 on AIX

Well, Ruud! I completed an upgrade from an ADSM 3.1.2.20 AIX 4.3.3 Server last month also an ADSM 3.1.0.6 AIX 4.3.3 client both to TSM 4.2.1.0. I followed the steps in the READMe and did not run into any problems with installing the code. The upgrade went very smooth except I ran into a problem

Re: Working with two servers

TSM 5.1 will have server-to-server export, useful for duplicating servers for DR. In other words, the export server command will have a toserver= option. More than that, I don't know, but it sounds like just what you're looking for (and probably easier than setting up clustering).

Re: Old Backupsets

delete volhist todate=mm/dd/ totime=hh:mm type=backupset vol=volid force=yes volid is case sensitive. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc David Ehresman deehre01@LOUISTo: [EMAIL

Re: Old Backupsets

This sounds like APAR IC31524: ABSTRACT: BACKUPSETS NOT REMOVED FROM VOLHIST AFTER RETENTION PERIOD EXPIRES. ERROR DESCRIPTION: After backupsets expire, they no longer exist on the server, but they remain in the volhist file. This problem was documented and fixed in APAR

Problem sending SNMP traps

Hi everyone I have recently been trying to set up eventlogging on TSM via SNMP. Our setup: TSM server 3.7.5, aix 4.3.3 I've added dsmserv.opt to include commethod snmp and the snmpsubagent parameter points to the local host (where snmpd runs) using a configured community name. I ran: begin

Re: Old Backupsets

If it is the last backup set taken you will never get rid of it. Jim Murray Senior Systems Engineer Liberty Bank [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860)638-2919 Madness takes it's toll... Please have exact change. -Original Message- From: David Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: dsmfmt question

Have worked with AIX for some years. Not a REAL detail person on this but basically my understanding is this: 1. AIX doesn't know what your files are used for. 2. As you have created a jfs filesystem, then the I/O has to go through it. This includes any writes to files, regardless of whether

Archive backup

Hello everyone !!! I try to perform archiving backup into AIX client, and i recive this msg: ANS1081E Invalid search file specification '/usr' entered I use this command: dsmc arch /usr /home /etc /var Can I help me ? Thank very much Regards.

Re: Archive backup

Try using /usr/ If you also want directorys to be backup, use: dsmc arch /usr/ /home/ -subdir=yes Hth. Christian Astuni To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: .COM

Re: Problem sending SNMP traps

do you have your dsmsnmp agent running ? ? ? (found in the server install directory) ps -ef | grep snmp root 8072 28022 0 Sep 18 - 0:00 ./dsmsnmp root 17118 26478 0 Nov 26 - 0:00 ./dsmsnmp zdec23 23154 19598 1 09:27:06 pts/1 0:00 grep snmp root 26478 8072

Re: Archive backup

Do you not want: dsmc arch /usr/ /home/ /etc/ /var/ or use -subdir=yes Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602

informix backups ... not working with caching enabled ?

Hi *SM'ers, Just wondering if somebody encountered this problem : we are doing informix backups on a TSM 4.1.1 server, using onbar utility. Informix logical logs are written to a primary disk pool that has caching enabled, and a next storage pool defined to allow migration on tape. It seems

Re: Archive backup

-Christian- Are you trying to archive all the files in each directory? /usr /home /etc /var Try dsmc archive /usr/* home/* /etc/* /var/* -Original Message- From: Christian Astuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Archive

Re: informix backups ... not working with caching enabled ?

We have been backing up logical logs for years and never faced this problem; probably because we saw no need to cache files within our disk storagepools... George Lesho AFC Enterprises! PAC Brion Arnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/27/2001 10:21:40 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist

Backupset

I'm sure this was just covered here, so apologies that I missed it, but can I create a backupset process for more than one client at a time and/or can I specify that it is written to one specfic scratch tape? Marc.

TDP for ORACLE on True64???

Has Tivoli thought of coming out with a TDP for Oracle on True64 Unix yet? Anyone else have this configuration or am I the only one? Who can we put pressure on for this to get done? What good is a SAN when 90% of the data out there would come back across the network because there is no TDP?

Re: Backupset

Yep..and Yep... I perform a Backup Set on 5 servers at once daily (I have 10 drives thought). These are the servers I need to get up first in case of a disaster. Of course the creation of Backup Sets for a node uses the onsite copy tapes. So if the tape being read from has information for the

Moving TSM server from VM to AIX

Hello gang, I am looking for some words of wisdom. We are currently starting to plan a move of our ancient TSM 3.1.2.50 server to an AIX TSM 4.x server (not sure what version). I have a few questions: 1) Do I simply backup our db from TSM on VM and restore to TSM on AIX? How long will the

Re: Domains Question, Moving File Spaces

Yeah, there is a way but it is hokie as far as I am concerned. You have to export the file spaces for the node, delete the file spaces, and import them back to a new policy domain. -Original Message- From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 8:54 AM

Re: Domains Question

We have two domains. Its a carryover artifact from when we had a 3466 with one DLT-7337 and we upgraded to two DLT robots. Now with our 3494 both domains point to one copypool, tapepool, diskpool. I merged everything during the conversion except the domains. Don't remember it being much of a

Re: Full backups again

I would start by asking the requestor what is the goal???. What are they (really) trying to accomplish???. Then look at the features in TSM and try to match the goal/ requirement with the feature. (archive, backupset, copypool,mirror'd DB, roll-forward log offsite db backups, etc, etc)

TDP for ORACLE 2.2 on NT - ANS0238E Pls HELP

hi, we installed and configured TDP 2.2 for ORACLE on NT 4 SP6. We can do backups but we are getting errors when we try to delete them via an RMAN change backuppiece ( or set ) x delete. The piece/set is deleted from the RMAN catalog but when trying to delete withon TSM errors ANS0228E come up.

TDP for Exchange V2.2 Download

Is this version of the client available for download? Thanks, Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175

TSM 4.2* client for AIX5 32bit version

Does anyone know where this software is? I checked the ftp site, the tivoli site, the ibm site ... The 64bt version is out there not the 32bit. ? Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell

Re: Full backups again

Another option would be to have a special schedule that runs weekly to do a Selective rather than Incremental backup. Of course, you end up with 3 schedules for these nodes (weekday, Saturday and Sunday, of which, one is the selective backup), but you get your weekly full backup in. Nick

Re: AiX client password problem

Ive' had this happen before, still not sure what does it - as your AIX guys if they installed any maintenance, or did something that would change permissions - I'll bet they did. If you have passwordaccess GENERATE, the TSM password is encrypted into a file in /etc/security somewhere. Sometimes

Select-question

Hello, One of my daily checks is the select-query below: select DATE_TIME,NODENAME,MESSAGE from ACTLOG WHERE MSGNO=4959 and date_timetimestamp(concat('$1',' 07:00')) The problem is that the output is msgno 4959 for all nodes. I only want to see the nodes with 1 or more objects failed. When

netware/groupwise archives

We have started backing up the Netware Servers on our network which are all at 5.1.. we are currently on TSM 4.1, the incrementals are working good not a lot of problem there.. But when it comes to archiving the Groupwise volumes it takes a long time. same with when it expires the files..

Re: TSM 4.2* client for AIX5 32bit version

It seems as if it is only for 64bit right now... I'm not sure, you may want to call support to verify? -Original Message- From: Gabriel Wiley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 4.2* client for AIX5 32bit version Does

Re: TDP for ORACLE on True64???

This would be a long shot I would think? What will HP call Tru64? HP-UX would be my guess. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175

TIVOLI OS390

My backup normally runs around 1 to 2 hrs. Starting on NOV.24 , it has been increase by 2. Found a lot of message ANRD on the log.. Has anyone run into this problem. Enterprise Software Programmer Broward County Florida Mr. Gerard Prato [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TSM Platform Change

What is involved in changing a TSM server from one platform (HPUX) to another (AIX)? I'm involved in a project that needs to move a TSM server from hp to ibm. I know the db needs exported/imported, unloaded/loaded, backedup/restored (I'm not sure how, but I've heard it can be done). The bigger

4.2.2.0 Client?

4.2.1.0 has been on tivoli's website for some time now. Andy or someone at Tivoli - any idea when 4.2.2.0 will be out? Gerald Wichmann System Engineer StorageLink 408-844-8893 (v) 408-844-9801 (f)

Re: Sharing the 3494 with OS/390 and AS/400

On OS/390 it depends on the tape management system. If you're running DFSMSrmm, then just specify the REJECT ANYUSE(...) for the volser 'range' that is non-OS/390 in your EDGRMMxx parmlib member. If you are using any of the CA alternatives (TLMS, CA-1) then you will have to modify the sample

Re: Select-question

Just a suggestion but instead of runing the SQL command against the ACTLOG table I would reference the SUMMARY table for failed objects..Just a thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/01 11:30AM Hello, One of my daily checks is the select-query below: select DATE_TIME,NODENAME,MESSAGE from ACTLOG

Re: Moving TSM server from VM to AIX

Check the archives for discussions on this topic, but here are my answers anyway (see below): Peter Hadikin Peter_Hadiki [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Robin

Re: Problem sending SNMP traps

Is the DPID2 process running? As far as I understand, the communication goes like this: TSM - DSMSNMP - DPID2 - SNMPD Patrick Varney Pacific Gas Electric Company Fairfield Information Operations Center (FFIOC) Enterprise Services Group (ESG), Senior Network Specialist -Original

Re: Working with two servers

I don't think that server-to-server will fix it. If Server 1 sends the data to be stored on Server 2 (as it's offsite backup), and then Server 1 fails, you can't just do the restore with Server 2. Only Server 1 has the right metadata in it's data base to do the restore. -Original

Changing TCP and HTTP ports

Hi TSMers. I would like to change TCP and HTTP ports on one of my two servers from 1500 and 1580 to 1501 and 1581. Just to differentiate one from another. I changed them under dsmserv.opt and restart the server service but I cannot connect to it from the admin command line. If I changed them back

Re: TSM Platform Change

Hi Rick, This question keeps coming up on the list, and I have never seen a definitive answer. But I will throw this out and see who can respond to it with better info - I think the answer is USUALLY NOT, and even if you somehow get away with it, it's not supported. To move client data across

Re: TIVOLI OS390

ANRD is a bucket message - anything error that doesn't have it's own number shows up as ANRD. So to answer your question we need to know the full text of the message -Original Message- From: GERARD PRATO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:17 PM To:

Re: Changing TCP and HTTP ports

Make sure that under the dsm.sys they exist and then use dsmadmc -se=servername to connect -Original Message- From: Chan, Kien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing TCP and HTTP ports Sensitivity: Private Hi TSMers.

Re: Changing TCP and HTTP ports

And make sure you don't have locked ports down in the OS. On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:09:34PM -0600, Davidson, Becky wrote: Make sure that under the dsm.sys they exist and then use dsmadmc -se=servername to connect -Original Message- From: Chan, Kien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Changing TCP and HTTP ports

You have to change the dsm.sys as well for the archive client or the admin client depending on the type of client. -Original Message- From: Chan, Kien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing TCP and HTTP ports

Re: dsmfmt question

I get it! Thanks David! -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dsmfmt question Have worked with AIX for some years. Not a REAL detail person on this but basically my understanding is

Identifying library and tape drive devices in Solaris

Hi, I am new to this list . If there is an FAQ please point me in that direction. We have a Qualstar 4440 library with Sony AIT2 Tape drives both are in the supported list for TSM. When I define the library with command define library qualstar libtype=scsi device=/dev/rmt/0lb the server just

Re: AW: transmitting the result of an sql query to a script ? + loop struture ?

Here's one that we use every day, and it works pretty well... from an AIX 4.3.3 machine. This kills any running reclaims: # Kill any reclaim processes that are running alias dsmadmc=dsmadmc -id=maestro -pa=admin list_reclaim_pids() { dsmadmc select process_num from processes where

Re: TSM 4.2 do not support IBM Ultrium 3583-Lxx ?????

It's supported from the getgo. Is there a problem? _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Claudio

TSM 4.2 do not support IBM Ultrium 3583-Lxx ?????

Hi, anyone know when this library ( IBM Ultrium 3583-Lxx ) will be supported by TSM 4.2 ??? Thanks... --- Claudio Cofré Caro Ingeniero Especialista de Producto SA Consultores - Chile e-mail:

Offsite Fibre Channel Tape Drives

Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with running Fibre Channel attached TSM tape drives over long distances using any kind of channel extension. Specifically, we are looking at TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 with STK 9310 Libraries and 9840 fiber attached drives, but experience with any

Re: Identifying library and tape drive devices in Solaris

And when you get that problem fixed, the element addresses for the drives are 63000 for the first drive, 63001 for the second and so on. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or

Re: Offsite Fibre Channel Tape Drives

Take a look at the Inrange Solution for Dense Wave Multiplexing. -Original Message- From: Varney, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Offsite Fibre Channel Tape Drives Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone has any

Can't empty diskpool volumes!?!

This looks like APAR IC29607. Here is the closing text. ** * USERS AFFECTED: All TSM V3.7.0 and TSM V4.1.0 servers. ** * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Move Data within the same DISK

Re: Sharing the 3494 with OS/390 and AS/400

Bazuin- I have *exactly* this combo. Each platform must be careful to claim only those tapes in insert category (ff00) which it owns. For my Tivoli server in AIX, I have a script which runs hourly to find insert mode carts that belong to Tivoli and generate batch LABEL LIBV commands. In

TDP for SAP R/3 Restores to Different System/SID

I have read the documentation on this in the Installation Guide and still have some issues. Most notably, changing the password on the source server is not a good thing when it is a production server TDP SAP R/3 node name. That can interrupt the production operation (redo logs, etc). The case

Backupset question

Hi I want to try the backupset feature. What will be the correct process, as I understand for local restore I need to run GENERATE BACKUPSET and if I want to keep one on the server I need to run DEFINE BACKUPSET. After a generate backupset what I need to do (checkout libvol !) If any of