TSM v6.3 schema for log table

2015-02-25 Thread Rhodes, Richard L.
The v6.3 schema has the following entries: TSMDB1 LOG ACTIVE_LOG_DIR VARCHAR 220 TSMDB1 LOG AFAILOVER_FREE_FS_MB DECIMAL 10 TSMDB1 LOG FAILOVER_LOG_DIR VARCHAR 220 TSMDB1 LOG AFAILOVER_TOL_FS_MB DECIMAL 10 TSMDB1 LOG AFAILOVER_USED_FS_MB DECIMAL 10 TSMDB1 LOG

Re: TSM VE question

2015-02-25 Thread Matthew McGeary
Hello Robert, That message is nothing to worry about. Configuring TSM for VE using the IBM-supplied wizard only provisions one VMCLI node, even when there are multiple data movers in the configuration. Regards, __ Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist - Operations

Re: TSM v6.3 schema for log table

2015-02-25 Thread Zoltan Forray
Seems to be. This is what I get from a Q LOG F=D 10:17:31 AM HADES : q log f=d Active Log Directory: /tsmlog Total Space(MB): 65,536 Used Space(MB): 569 Free Space(MB): 64,967 Archive Log Directory: /tsmarchlog Total Size of

ANS4174E error

2015-02-25 Thread McWilliams, Eric
I'm trying to back up some VM's using DP for VM 7.1.1.0 and am getting an error on some of the VM's and the backup is failing. I've asked Uncle Google and can't find much. I would contact IBM support but I get very little help from them as well. 02/25/2015 09:35:07 ANS9351E Data was not

Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
I received a security bulletin from IBM yesterday regarding Tivoli Storage Manager Stack-based Buffer Overflow Elevation of Privilege: CVE-2014-6184. The affected version/release combinations listed in the bulletin run from 5.4 to 6.3. We still have one Linux system with 5.3 client code. Can I

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
TSM 6.1 and all Version 5 releases are past normal end of support. The security bulletin advises customers with support extensions on 5.4, 5.5, or 6.1 to contact IBM Support. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Skylar Thompson
That is my assumption as well. Fortunately IBM has started renewing Solaris x86 clients again. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:11:39PM -0500, Zoltan Forray wrote: Does not specifically say if it includes SOLARIS (only says *UNIX, Linux, and OS X allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Vandeventer, Harold [OITS]
Is the 5.3 release so old that it is considered not in support? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Privilege escalation bug I

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
The body of the bulletin I received states that the affected platforms are AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Zoltan Forray
Does not specifically say if it includes SOLARIS (only says *UNIX, Linux, and OS X allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.*). Do I assume since it says UNIX SOLARIS is includes? We have some old Domino Solaris boxes (supposed to go away some time soon) still running

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
I signed up for a subscription for notices related to TSM. The trailer information on the privilege escalation bulletin advises using the URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/mynotifications to subscribe or unsubscribe. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-02-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
Each backup session backs up some control information, and that information is restored for use during the next backup. (You can see the restores happening if you watch the server during the backup, or if you look in the accounting info.) I'm just guessing, but I suspect that the data

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Zoltan Forray
Where are you getting the bulletins/alerts from? I wouldn't have know about it if it wasn't for your posting. I have passed this on to my folks - we too have old clients going back to 5.3 and older (IRIX?) On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Denier thomas.den...@jefferson.edu wrote: The

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-02-25 Thread McWilliams, Eric
Thanks for the information, Wanda. It must be that they are migrating to tape. We migrate to tape rather often. Do you know how large the control information is? I need to estimate how large to make the disk pool. Thanks again. Eric McWilliams IT Systems Administrator II

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-02-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
Here's a link to the formula: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21695292 And the answer of course, is it depends on your source data and change rate. If you are talking 250 VM's or less, I never know so I start with 100G, broken up into 10 GB volumes. Then monitor it.

Re: Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread David Bronder
There have been 3-4 security vulnerabilities recently for either Linux or all Unix and Linux clients, all related to the setuid dsmtca utility, with some overlap in versions (6.3-ish, IIRC) for some of the issues. For older/unsupported (or can't-yet-be-updated) clients, the workaround has been to

Re: Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Steven Harris
Arrrgh! I have been working through a stack of changes to implement the last set of updates for security issues on dsmtca. This is about 20 changes over 4 months, and the workload imposed by this is considerable. I now find I have to go back and do most of these again! (I could rant about the

TSM VE question

2015-02-25 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hi o all I am backing my VMware environment with TSM for VE 7.1.1.0. I have two data movers VMPROXY and VMPROXY2 . My configuration is as: · CLDVCENTER o VMCLI § MYSITE_DATACENTER · LOC_MP_WIN / LOC_MP_LNX o VMPROXY o VMPROXY2 Every time I access thru one of