ANR8420E IO Error

2005-05-16 Thread Akash Jain
Hi, I am trying to define a drive in TSM level but getting the (ANR8420E) above-mentioned error. At OS level the tape drive has been defined in /dev directory as st0 (Seagate DAT 20/40, internal drive 4MM with IBM stamp, 9SP40-000). The working of DAT drive has been checked at OS level with the

Re: trouble with lan-free backup. Help!!! Pls!

2005-05-16 Thread Chernyaev Sergey
Hello all! Problem solved! I forget about HBA Bios. Guys some time ago upgraded QLogic HBA firmware, by default in BIOS option FibreChannel Tape support is disabled. Yesterday i check HBA Bios on all windows servers, change this option to Enabled and all worked fine!!!

Core Dump while taking backup

2005-05-16 Thread Akash Jain
Hi experts, After checking the logs it has been observed that dsm generated an core dump on one of the backup node. What could be the possible reasons for the same? Any suggestions or ideas are welcome? ERROR DETAILS are as under: -

Re: hi tsm'ers ! UPGRADE question

2005-05-16 Thread goc
hi, thanks q: how about LTO2 drive , can it read or write LTO3 media ? if yes then probably with LTO2 specs , right ? goran - Original Message - From: pelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 12:09 AM Subject: Re: hi tsm'ers ! UPGRADE question We are

Re: Core Dump while taking backup

2005-05-16 Thread Richard Sims
On May 16, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Akash Jain wrote: Hi experts, After checking the logs it has been observed that dsm generated an core dump on one of the backup node. What could be the possible reasons for the same? Any suggestions or ideas are welcome? ... SIGNAL NUMBER 6 ... When

Re: ANR8420E IO Error

2005-05-16 Thread showersofblessings
Hi, It seems like you forgot to define the path from the server to the tape drive, and the 2nd line doesn't quite look right to me. It should look like this: define drive manlib IBMDRV then define the path: define path server_name IBMDRV srctype=server desttype=drive library=manlib

Constant Hot TSM Server

2005-05-16 Thread Meadows, Andrew
Hello everyone, Ok we just returned from our DR Test and unfortunately it was a flop. No big deal I learned something. Management now wants to know the cost involved at having TSM up constantly at a hotsite. For some reason I cannot wrap my mind around exactly what would be the best way to do

How did this password expire?

2005-05-16 Thread Roger Deschner
I've got a client node, which is a moderately large AIX server, and which PASSEXP is set to 0, and which is using PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE, that all of a sudden started getting: ANR0425W Session 44114 for node NODENAME (AIX) refused - password has expired. I got it backing up again by setting a

help with select from volumes and processes, pls.

2005-05-16 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
Hello ! What I would like to get is a select like this below, but I would aslo like to get some information if the listed volumes are in a process or session? If that is possible, how do I do? Select cast(volume_name as char(6)) as Volume, Cast(substr(stgpool_name,1,16) as char(16)) as Storage

AIX 5.3 upgrade issues?

2005-05-16 Thread Park, Rod
Hello all, I recently upgrade my tsm servers to AIX 5.3 ML1 running tsm 5.2.3.3 since our aix upgrade, our database backups went from 20-35 minutes per server to about 2-4 hrsanybody else experienced this and any suggestions? This is the only significant event that has happened to lead me to

Unable to open timer file

2005-05-16 Thread Shannon Bach
One of the client admins here installed Windows TSM Client Version 5, Release 2, Level 4.0 on a Win2000 machine. All is okay for about 5 seconds then the TSM Scheduler service just stops. The client dsmerror.log shows the following message; UseExternalTimer: Unable to open timer file '\s4l8.',

Re: Constant Hot TSM Server

2005-05-16 Thread Kauffman, Tom
Andrew -- Was the problem in recovering the TSM server, or recovering the applications after the server recovery? What platform/version? I've been recovering TSM (AIX) in about 4 to 6 hours for several years now, and recovering SAP/R3 (Oracle) and MS-Exchange to most recent available backups in

Re: Unable to open timer file

2005-05-16 Thread Richard Sims
Shannon - I don't have enough context on your environment, but it should like your site is not using the TSM Scheduler directly, but instead via the Client Acceptor Daemon. Per the client manual: the CAD serves as an external timer for the scheduler. When the scheduler is started, it queries

Re: Tape Encryption Appliances

2005-05-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
I have never heard of this applicance; but my first question would be, whatcha gonna do when you have to take your tapes to a DR site? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Milton Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:18 AM To:

Re: Tape Encryption Appliances

2005-05-16 Thread Johnson, Milton
1) You will need appliance(s) at the DR site, consider it an accessory to your library. 2) The appliances I've seen allow: A) Backing up the keys to DR media (CDROM, Smart Cards, files, etc.) for use at the DR site B) Hot appliance(s) can be kept off site but on the network, (i.e. your DR Site or

Re: Constant Hot TSM Server

2005-05-16 Thread Meadows, Andrew
Actually the problem was the server that we received from our Hot Site provider. The server is an AIX 5.1 server with TSM version 5.2.1 installed. The problem was that the fibre attached disk that they gave us were extreemely slow. I have a 48 GB database and formatting the database so I could

Re: Constant Hot TSM Server

2005-05-16 Thread Curtis Stewart
I have a 48 GB database and formatting the database so I could restore to it took 9 hours in itself, TSM was available in 12 hours. In a 24 hour DR Test this is not good Two thoughts. 1. If it took that long to format, it might not just be a disk issue. What CPU configuration was on the

Re: Constant Hot TSM Server

2005-05-16 Thread John E. Vincent
Not withstanding the issues of the time it took to format the volume, when it comes to bandwidth TO the hot site, you could look at buying some dark fiber along the way somewhere between the primary and standby sites. We've actually been investigating this ourselves but not with any real effort as

Re: Constant Hot TSM Server

2005-05-16 Thread Kauffman, Tom
ARGH! My database is 30 GB. And I format it as 3 10 GB volumes. Our hot-site config has three fiber HBAs into the disk, with SDD used for virtual pathing; the format/format/db restore takes about 45 minutes. They didn't, by chance, have the tape drives fiber-attached via the same HBAs as the

Re: Constant Hot TSM Server

2005-05-16 Thread Lawrence Clark
We have a 16GB TSM DB. The disk on the DR was preallocated and defined. A restore took 20 minutes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/2005 1:56:49 PM I have a 48 GB database and formatting the database so I could restore to it took 9 hours in itself, TSM was available in 12 hours. In a 24 hour DR Test

Re: Unable to open timer file

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew Raibeck
I don't know the specific trouble, but I suspect it is some kind of configuration issue. The only advice I can offer is to try removing and reinstalling the client: 1) Stop all running instances of the TSM client, including services (journal, scheduler, CAD, remote client agent) and interactive

DEL FILE on individual Windows file spaces

2005-05-16 Thread Lawrence Clark
We have a mix of AIX and Windows.example below. On deleting individual filespaces on AIX there is no problem, as: del file aixadmin /usr However, trying to delete individual Windows filespaces causes probems. All files can be deleted but individula filespaces specified returns a not found

Re: How did this password expire?

2005-05-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
Roger, I've seen this happen a couple of ways. I doubt it really Expired, it's probably just corrupted. I've seen it happen when someone applied maintenance to AIX that somehow (we never figured out how) stomped around in /etc/password. Also if you are using the new NIC with a new IP address,

Re: DEL FILE on individual Windows file spaces

2005-05-16 Thread Jonathan Kaufman
Have you tried enclosing the UNC path within quotes? (), or if you don't want to deal with that you can also delete the filespaces by filespace ID. delete filespace {node} {filespaceid} nametype=fsid (delete filespace AFSDBMS 3 nametype=fsid for example) Worst comes to worst, you could try

Re: DEL FILE on individual Windows file spaces

2005-05-16 Thread Joe Howell
Delete it using the FSID. del files nodename fsid# namet=fsid Using your example, del file afsdbms 3 namet=fsid. ### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawrence Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: DEL FILE on individual Windows file spaces

2005-05-16 Thread William Boyer
Use the filesystem number format instead: del fi afsdbms 3 nametype=fsid With Winders and unicode you may be running into codepage issues. Just use the FSID insteadand make sure you type carefully! Don't want to mistype the wrong number. Bill Boyer Some days you're the bug, some days

ANR9999D error message?

2005-05-16 Thread Desalegne Guangul
Hi Everybody! My Environment is TSM V 5.1.1.6 on Win2k SP4. Did you ever found fix to the problem below? I'm getting the same error messages and won't let me edit the client nodes. Please let me know! Any one please help! Thanks, Greetings all! Environment: TSM V 5.1.1.0 on Win2k SP3

Re: Core Dump while taking backup

2005-05-16 Thread Akash Jain
Backup is working fine, but to further avoid any errors I want to identify the reason for the same. We are working on TSM version 5.1.0. Regards Akash Jain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, 16 May 2005 5:05

Re: ANR9999D error message?

2005-05-16 Thread Iain Barnetson
I had a similar problem, turned out to be the Qlogic card. The machine had happily worked away with the same config for ages, then started throwing anr errors. There was no indication in Windows or the Dell logs of any problem, only in TSM. Turned out to be the Qlogic card, updating the