ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Werner Nussbaumer
Hi Is it necessary that both passwords of the IBM Integrated Solutions Console and the IBM Tivoli Storage Administration Center must be the same. Or is there a way to say in the ISC that the synchronizes the password, lets say that you can open a user, give a default password which then must be

ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center for xLinux?

2007-03-20 Thread Werner Nussbaumer
Hi Is there an IBM Integrated Solutions Console and an IBM Tivoli Storage Administration Center for IBM xLinux? Thanks for any help regards Werner Nussbaumer

Re: ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Sandeep Jain
Hi 1. Both ISC and TSM server password are unique 2. if you are able to login to ISC and not able to Add a TSM server connection that there is a possibility that either password which you are giving is wrong or your TSM server is not UP. ( o ) --- I,I ' ' I,I (( )) With

Re: Windows TSM CAD errors,

2007-03-20 Thread David E Ehresman
What was the fix? David Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/19/2007 2:09 PM Thanks again to all...this issue has been resolved. Tim David E Ehresman wrote: Use the GUI to remove the current CAD service. Then use the GUI to customize a scheduler, not a CAD, but tell it to use CAD to

Re: ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:23:11 +0100, Werner Nussbaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is it necessary that both passwords of the IBM Integrated Solutions Console and the IBM Tivoli Storage Administration Center must be the same. Or is there a way to say in the ISC that the synchronizes the

Re: ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Bullock
Agreed... If only it could plug into LDAP or AD or NIS or .. Grumble. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:04 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ISC and Tivoli Storage

Re: Windows TSM CAD errors,

2007-03-20 Thread Timothy Hughes
David, I used the Gui to removed the TSM services (acceptor and scheduler) then I did a re-install on both and it cleared up the issue. F.Y.I - I had the same issue with another windows 2003 box and found out that I could have just used the Dsmcutil update utililty then start tsm

Slow backup on MS cluster file server

2007-03-20 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi all I have a Microsoft Cluster , I'm running TSM client 5.3.4.0 on the cluster nodes ... TSM 5.3 on the TSM server ... Since a couple of months it takes 6 hours to backup 10GB ... its very slow ... Is there some parameters that I can put in the OPT file to help .. Thanks Luc Beaudoin

Re: ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Ben Bullock Agreed... If only it could plug into LDAP or AD or NIS or .. Careful what you wish for. You might get it. In theory (with the usual IBM caveats), centralized LDAP authentication is on the roadmap of TSM possibilities. Be afraid. --

Re: Slow backup on MS cluster file server

2007-03-20 Thread Barnes, Kenny
Have you checked your switch port setting and NIC setting? A duplex mismatch will kill a backup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc Beaudoin Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:01 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Slow backup on

select statement error

2007-03-20 Thread Avy Wong
hello, Can anyone tell me why this select statement did not like 'IF' ? what is the correct syntax? thank you. tsm: TSMSERVER1select VOLUME_NAME, pct_utilized, stgpool_name from volumes where pct_utilized0 and pct_utilized10 and devclass_name ='3584' and STGPOOL_NAME='3584TAPEPOOL' if

missed backup

2007-03-20 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
What we have are 2 windows clients, one on 5.3.4.0 and another on 5.3.4.8. Both of these clients consistently show missed, yet you can restart the scheduler service and it will communicate and pick up the schedule. The log on the client shows no attempt to start and the TSM server only has the

Re: missed backup

2007-03-20 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, Hi, (dsm)sched.log and dsm(error).log at the client can give some extra info. Workaround could be to set the schedmode to polling. Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: dinsdag 20 maart 2007

Re: ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Fred Johanson
I have heard that it is on the way. Original message Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:21:20 -0500 From: Mark Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Ben

Re: missed backup

2007-03-20 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
(dsm)sched.log and dsm(error).log at the client can give some extra info. When you restart the scheduler there is an entry in the log that shows the next backup is scheduled for that night and then nothing else. There is nothing in the error log at all. No indication any communication was even

Re: ISC and Tivoli Storage Administration Center Passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:21:20 -0500, Mark Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Agreed... If only it could plug into LDAP or AD or NIS or .. Careful what you wish for. You might get it. I've been hearing that threat since 1998. I'll pencil in some quivering-in-boots for next fall. - Allen

Re: missed backup

2007-03-20 Thread Richard Sims
On Mar 20, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: ... I've asked those folks to verify certain things but have not heard back so I thought while waiting for a response I'd throw this out there. Besides the standard NIC/switch mismatch, which I have seen cause this, is there something DNS

Re: missed backup

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
-Geoff Gill ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote: - What we have are 2 windows clients, one on 5.3.4.0 and another on 5.3.4.8. Both of these clients consistently show missed, yet you can restart the scheduler service and it will communicate and pick up the schedule. The log on the client shows no

Redbook: Building a Secure TSM Environment

2007-03-20 Thread Charlotte Brooks
Hi all - have just published a draft of a new redbook on security best practices for TSM, covering many aspects of server and client security, including different encryption methods. I hope you'll find it interesting. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247505.html?Open Cheers,

Moving Library Owner/Manager

2007-03-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are working to replace our two AIX TSM servers (old, slow, still using SSA disk, etc) with new x86/Linux boxen. Unfortunately, the tape library owners/managers are these two AIX boxes. Has anyone here gone through changing which TSM server owns a tape library, that can offer some hints, tips,

LAN-free with RDAC

2007-03-20 Thread Uwe Koch
Hello, is there an instruction for installing LAN-free backup with a Storage-Agent running on Windows 2003 with RDAC-drivers ? We need to backup an Exchange cluster that uses a RDAC-driver for 2-way connections to the SAN-disks. And therefore it also sees 8 LTO3-drives instead of the real 4

Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
We are seeing the following pair of messages occasionally: ANRD icvolhst.c(5267): ThreadId 47 Error Writing to output File. ANR4510E Server could not write sequential volume history information to /var/tsm_automation/volumehistory. Successive occurances of this pair of messages are typically

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Thomas Denier We are seeing the following pair of messages occasionally: ANRD icvolhst.c(5267): ThreadId 47 Error Writing to output File. ANR4510E Server could not write sequential volume history information to /var/tsm_automation/volumehistory.

Client Config Corner Case Conundrum.

2007-03-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
I added that fifth one once I saw the first 4. ;) So, if 5.4 Linux client has no dsm.opt, but a dsm.sys with a default server stanza, then dsmc q sched, dsmc incr, etc. will all work happily. But the CAD will not work: It complains that the scheduler command fails. If you 'touch' (i.e. make a

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
-Mark Stapleton wrote: - Does the directory exist? Yes. Is there room in the /var filesystem? The file system has about 240 megabytes of free space. Our volume history file is a little under one megabyte. Does the service running dsmserv have sufficient privilege to write to the

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Kelly
Is it not possible that the /var filesystem *sometimes* has too little space available? After all, didn't you say that this only fails roughly every one to two weeks? Perhaps the failures coincide with some other activity (possibly unrelated to TSM) that temporarily eats up most/all of the

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Richard Sims
On Mar 20, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Thomas Denier wrote: We are seeing the following pair of messages occasionally: ANRD icvolhst.c(5267): ThreadId 47 Error Writing to output File. ANR4510E Server could not write sequential volume history information to /var/tsm_automation/volumehistory. Hi,

Backups of clustered client on VCS on AIX.

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Clark
clusternode does note appear to be supported on VCS on AIX. We've switched from a process resource to an application resource, and still the TSM.PWD file is disappearing from the passwordir at failover. TSM client version 5.3.4.0 TSM server version 5.2.4.5 VCS for AIX version 5.0 Any help or

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
-Richard Sims wrote: - One possible, but less likely cause could be a volume history set of such size that it exceeds the filesize Unix Resource Limit under which the TSM server was started: if yours is a large set, try pruning and see if the problem goes away. Another possible cause is

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Kauffman, Tom
What filesystem type? (reiser, ext3, etc.) Could you be running out of inodes at times? Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:57 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
-Bill Kelly wrote: - Is it not possible that the /var filesystem *sometimes* has too little space available? After all, didn't you say that this only fails roughly every one to two weeks? Perhaps the failures coincide with some other activity (possibly unrelated to TSM) that temporarily

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
-Tom Kauffman wrote: - What filesystem type? (reiser, ext3, etc.) Could you be running out of inodes at times? It is an ext3 file system. We are using about 20,000 out of 300,960 inodes. I can't think of anything running on the system that would create several hundred thousand files in

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread John Monahan
You could also try more extensive testing using the backup volhist command on your own instead of waiting every one-two weeks for it to fail. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Cell:

Re: Moving Library Owner/Manager

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Kelly
Zoltan, I went through this a couple of years ago. I still have my notes on what I did, but I wouldn't promise that they're 100% complete (or even represent the most sensible way to do this!). The general procedure was: 0) Prevent tape activity in all servers (mountl=0 everywhere, drives

Re: Error writing volume history file

2007-03-20 Thread Richard Cowen
Some time ago (years), that error message would appear when a deadlock of some kind prevented the volume history table from being accessed during the write attempt. One GB scratch volumes? At what rate do you create/delete these during the night? A high rate would increase the chance of a

Re: Moving Library Owner/Manager

2007-03-20 Thread Suad Musovich
There's not a single tasklist you can work on because of differing environments (are both TSM servers using the libraries themselves? is there non-standard inventory... like backupsets?) The last time I did it, it was something like this. On the old Library Manager (LM)... - Identify(generate a

Re: Moving Library Owner/Manager

2007-03-20 Thread William Boyer
You don't need to generate this list and do the CHECKIN for each library clients' tapes with OWNER...Just checkin all the tapes in the library as PRIVATE. At this point they will show with no owner. Then on the library client run an AUDIT LIBRARY. It seems that the entire volume inventory from