Re: Tape throughput troubleshooting?

2008-11-10 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Richard Sims was rumored to have written: I would start with the netstat inspection outlined in the Backup performance topic of ADSM QuickFacts, which will quickly assess how network flow is doing in the actual event. TCP window size may be involved in what you are seeing, known

Re: How do I get TDPO to send controlfiles to SBT_TAPE instead of DISK?

2008-04-23 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Dan Foster was rumored to have written: My DBAs and I are completely baffled. How do I get TDPO to send controlfiles to SBT_TAPE instead of DISK? Eventually resolved: needed to get *every* single config file on BOTH hosts to match for a restore to the DR host, AND to disable

Re: How do I get TDPO to send controlfiles to SBT_TAPE instead of DISK?

2008-04-23 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Steve Stackwick was rumored to have written: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dan Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My setup: TSM server (Enterprise) 5.5 on AIX 5.2. TDPO 5.4.1 on Solaris 10/SPARC and Oracle 10gR2. Do you really have TSM 5.5 running on AIX 5.2? I

How do I get TDPO to send controlfiles to SBT_TAPE instead of DISK?

2008-04-10 Thread Dan Foster
My DBAs and I are completely baffled. How do I get TDPO to send controlfiles to SBT_TAPE instead of DISK? My setup: TSM server (Enterprise) 5.5 on AIX 5.2. TDPO 5.4.1 on Solaris 10/SPARC and Oracle 10gR2. RMAN settings: RMAN show all; RMAN configuration parameters are: CONFIGURE RETENTION

Re: Is there a simple way to test a tape drive?

2007-11-30 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Richard Rhodes was rumored to have written: Sometimes I want to have TSM test out a tape drive. Something like . . . - pick a drive - pick a tape - have tsm mount the tape and read the label (or something) - tell me this succeeded or not Like yesterday . . . IBM

Re: Nervous Nellies and TDPO -- feasible?

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Foster
Hi ladies and gentlemen, I *really* appreciate the feedback including one by private e-mail! It's helped a lot in resolving our DBAs' concerns. Yesterday, we configured RMAN/TDPO (our first TDPO setup) and I must say the performance flies with use of multiple parallelized

Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Jim Young was rumored to have written: This will give you a list of tapes under twenty percent utilized from all pools select volume_name, stgpool_name,pct_utilized, status from volumes - where pct_utilized 20 and status='FILLING' - order by pct_utilized, stgpool_name,

Nervous Nellies and TDPO -- feasible?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Foster
Hi - My DBAs has some serious concerns about running TDPO and I don't know enough about it to be able to answer their concerns authoritatively. Any information would be much appreciated. The subject line was _NOT_ meant to denigrate them -- not at all (they're clued in DBAs) but

How to register TDP Oracle 5.4.1 licenses?

2007-09-15 Thread Dan Foster
Setup: - TSM 5.4.1.1 server on IBM 7026-6H1 running AIX 5.2 TL10 SP3 - TDPO 5.4.1 client on Sun T2000/SPARC running Solaris 10 Update 3 - Oracle 10gR2 database - version 10.2.0.3 I've only previously set up TDP MS SQL 5.2? on a TSM 5.1.9.6 server. We recently went to TSM

Re: Minimum TSM server version for Solaris/x86 client?

2007-03-12 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! David McClelland was rumored to have written: Do you mean client or server here? TSM *client* on x86 Solaris has been available since 5.3: Ah, right; duly corrected, thanks! Given that TSM 5.2 Server goes out of support next month, you'll only really want to be connecting it to

Minimum TSM server version for Solaris/x86 client?

2007-03-08 Thread Dan Foster
TSM 5.4 added support for Solaris/x86... but what is the minimum server version it will connect to? 5.1.5? 5.2? 5.3? 5.4? I looked in the documentation and couldn't find that info. The FTP server keeps disconnecting me while emulating the performance of an Apple II running off floppies so I

Re: TSM Client on GENTOO

2006-08-01 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Christian Svensson was rumored to have written: Has anyone try to install ITSM BA/API on Gentoo? Yes. The 5.1.5 client works well for me. I have not tried 5.2 or later. I can not even install ITSM on it because I don't have any RPM software. # emerge rpm # rpm -ivh --force

Re: 3584 Library

2006-06-08 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Gill, Geoffrey L. was rumored to have written: I'm bringing up a remote AIX system with a 3584. Seems as though IBM left it in an unusable state and I'm trying to figure out why. What I originally saw was the below output minus the 3584 info. I ran cfgmgr and now have the below

Re: adm login is locked!

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Alexandr was rumored to have written: I`ve installed TSM sever and client (full pack) on the same server(AIX). Have registred client node on the server TSM.(input correct pwd for registred client node). All it was working well for long time. But after long off-working time was

Re: Trying to use TSM API

2006-06-04 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Mike was rumored to have written: I have a program that compiles properly, and connects, but when querying (I'm testing managemt classes first) it gets an error: ANS0245E (RC2065) The caller's structure version is different than the TSM library version. The version of the

Re: Trying to use TSM API

2006-06-04 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Mike was rumored to have written: tivoli.tsm.client.api.32bit 5.3.2.2 COMMITTED TSM Client - Application Programming Interface 32bit That looks correct. Do you have VisualAge C/C++ installed? It

Re: Trying to use TSM API

2006-06-04 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Mike was rumored to have written: The file (tsm.so) compiles great and connects to the tsm server just fine. Only when I issue the management class query does it complain about the structure version number. I am using vac/cc. No need to copy the library to /usr/lib since the

Re: ./domdsmc: Error while loading shared libraries

2006-06-02 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! TSM User was rumored to have written: ./domdsmc: Error while loading shared libraries: libnotes.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direcotry. I made sure that libnotes.so exists in the correct direcroty that I specified while running dominstall. I am having

Re: SQL Select commands

2006-05-26 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Richard Sims was rumored to have written: Go to http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/rz/docs/TSM/WORKSHOPS/3rd/handouts/ Handouts I of Andrew Raibeck is the online version. Handouts II of Andrew Raibeck is the PostScript version, Very nice stuff, that's for sure (as are the others'

Re: backup performance

2006-05-19 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Mario Behring was rumored to have written: I´ve started a backup operation at a Linux client using CENT OS (similar to RHat). The operation took 1 hour and 59 minutes to finish, and backed up 5.45GB of data.I think this is kind of slow..considering that the LTO3

TDP oddity with an extra registered client?

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Foster
I've got: TSM 5.1.9.6 server on AIX 5.2-ML7 TDP 5.2 for MSSQL (Windows 2003 Server running MS SQL Server 2000) The strange thing is: tsm: SERVERq lic [...] Number of TDP for MS SQL Server in use: 3 [...] But I only have two TDP 5.2 clients. How can I determine a list of all 3

Re: TDP oddity with an extra registered client?

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Stef Coene was rumored to have written: tsm: SERVERq lic [...] Number of TDP for MS SQL Server in use: 3 [...] But I only have two TDP 5.2 clients. How can I determine a list of all 3 registered TDP clients? select LICENSE_NAME, NODE_NAME from

Re: dsmadmc using non-root id access

2004-08-08 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Ameerul Mazli was rumored to have written: Has anyone got any idea whether it is possible to execute dsmadmc with non-root id? Sure, no problem. You only need root privileges to start TSM and possibly for a few things like creating/defining db/log volumes? (May not even need root

Re: Cancel all processes

2004-07-14 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! MC Matt Cooper (2838) was rumored to have written: I am not aware of a cancel all processes. However, you can write a script to do it. It would be based on the fact that TSM will tell you all the processes that are running.select process_num from processes will give you the

Re: A quick question

2004-07-06 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! David Longo was rumored to have written: I have used only IBM LTO1 tapes in my 3584 Fibre drives. I did have a few (3 or 4 in a year or so.) As I slowly gathered over this time, there were two problems. 1. The cases on early LTO 1 tapes didn't have the halves welded together.

Re: TSM 5.2 on AIX 5.1

2004-07-01 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Lawrence Clark was rumored to have written: We originally decided to put TSM 5.2 on the AIX 5.2 system for the migration because of a notice in the 5.2 install doc that said TSM 5.1 would cause 5.2 to crash (at least the version that was on the Bonus disk.) If my recollections

Re: Open VMS and TSM

2004-06-01 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Muhammad Sadat was rumored to have written: I wonder if TSM supports Open VMS as server or client?? There's no TSM server software for OpenVMS BUT yes, OpenVMS can be a TSM client if you purchase an additional commercial third party software called ABC which uses the TSM API. I do

Re: TSM 32Bit to 64bit Upgrade

2004-05-25 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Hart, Charles was rumored to have written: We are currently are running TSM 5.1.7.3 - 32bit on a p630 AIX 5.2.2. We would like to change the TSM from 32bit to 64bit during this upgrade. We ran a preview of the install choosing the 64bit rte and server code and lic filesets but

Re: 3584/lto2 code

2004-04-26 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Stef Coene was rumored to have written: Then use the website. Why don't you visit the homepage of your library: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/lto/3584.html There is a nice Firmware link and after 2 clicks you can download any firmware you want for your library.

Re: Any experience with Sepaton VTL

2004-04-16 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Johnson, Milton was rumored to have written: I got a call from a rep asking if I was interested in a Sepaton S2100 VTL (Virtual Tape Library) (www.sepaton.com). It's billed as: My questions include where's the down side? What's the catch? If your choice is between expanding by

Directory storage pools

2004-04-03 Thread Dan Foster
As per the TSM redbook at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245416.pdf It suggests use of DISKDIRS and OFFDIRS to store directory information to avoid restore-time directory reconstruction hits. Everything makes sense, including the need to explicitly bind all directories on a client

Re: Sizing an AIX platform and tape libraries

2004-03-23 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Nancy R. Brizuela was rumored to have written: 1) Right now we are backing up about 150 GB/ night, but we need to add Exchange and a new student information system (Banner) to this. We are estimating that we will soon grow to at least 500 -600 GB/night. 2) Workload consists

Re: 3583 Library Firmware upgrades

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Prather, Wanda was rumored to have written: You can go to www.storage.ibm.com www.storage.ibm.com and download the latest 3583 or LTO firmware any time. But it doesn't tell me what's CHANGED in each level of firmware. The local IBM CE usually is able to get something for me if I

Re: 5.2 upgrade path

2004-01-19 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Jolliff, Dale was rumored to have written: We are looking at an upgrade from 4.2.1.15 to some version that supports LTO Gen 2 drives, which I hear is 5.2 or later... Nope, LTO-2 support arrived in 5.1.6.1. There are *serious* problems with some of the 5.1.6 tree to the point where

Re: AIX startup of TSM scheduler

2004-01-07 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Prather, Wanda was rumored to have written: This always works for me: nohup dsmc sched 21 /dev/null /dev/null Alternatively, drop this one liner in /etc/inittab on an AIX system: dsmc::respawn:/usr/bin/dsmc sched -password=quiet /dev/null 21 (It is usually preferrable to put

Re: List all tapes, highlighting those in library.

2004-01-05 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Deon George was rumored to have written: Has anybody got an SQL, that can list all VOLUMES, and highlight (either showing the element number or something) those that are in the library? This report would be useful to see quickly if a list of tapes are already in the library - or

Re: 3584 LTO1 new firmware installed : 36UC

2003-12-31 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC was rumored to have written: we just upgraded the firmware for our LTO1 drives in the 3584. Version in now 36UC instead of 36U7. The bad bug (ask your CE about it please, if you are using 36U7) should be fixed now!! (Library is still at firmware level

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! i love tsm was rumored to have written: The two 3584s that I run have both recently gone off the air,i.e I can't ping them. They both have green link lights on the NIC. They are set to 100/Full although I have tried Auto and 100/half. 3584 Operator Guide recommends they be set

Re: SV: Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-24 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Richard Sims was rumored to have written: 3. What does the rumor say - when can we expect a real DB2 ;-) Imagine what the licensing fee for TSM would be then!! ;-)) Might jack up the price quite a bit... but would likely still be several orders of magnitude cheaper than

Re: TSM 5.1 server on AIX 5.2 64-bit?

2003-10-17 Thread Dan Foster
Thanks to everyone who helped out! We successfully migrated the AIX 5.1 server (6H1) to AIX 5.2 using alt_disk_migration cloning and then doing a migration upgrade install on hdisk1 (while preserving AIX 5.1 on hdisk0). We had also done a bootable mksysb to DVD-RAM beforehand with mkcd. Was

TSM 5.1 server on AIX 5.2 64-bit?

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Foster
1. Will that combination work? 2. Is that a supported combination? Or is only TSM 5.2 server on AIX 5.2 supported? The docs I've seen to date hasn't directly addressed TSM 5.1 server on AIX 5.2 64 bit, and I don't have a spare 64-bit 5.2 machine to test with at the moment. (Got plenty of

Re: Mkcd-AIX help

2003-10-09 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) was rumored to have written: Please excuse me for asking aix issue .But I think this was pressing issue for me right now. I use mkcd to backup AIX os to DVD . My question is what is equivalent to /etc/exclude.rootvg for mkcd compared to mksysb. I want to

Re: Non-IBM LTO tapes in a 3584

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Shawn Price was rumored to have written: For what it's worth, my boss cheaped out and got some non IBM tapes for our 3584, and I've had nothing but problems with them. Mostly Imation and a few Emtecs. We are running the first generation LTO 1 drives, so there might be an issue

Re: New 3584 library and drive microcode

2003-09-02 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC was rumored to have written: Eric, following some unmount failures, IBM recommended to install 36U3 (36U5 was chosen because it appeared on the IBM ftp site the day before). I noticed that several people installed 36U5 but it does not appear to be on

Re: audit library fails

2003-07-24 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Karel Bos was rumored to have written: On both sites we had some problems with tapes stuck in drives. On both sites we had to do audit libraries to get TSM in synch with the libraries. While the tapes were stuck in the drive, the audit library failes and now one of the slots is

Re: Wouldn't it be nice...

2003-07-24 Thread Dan Foster
You bring up a good point - these two folks are posting here because they genuinely want to help out and willing to tolerate the flak and other divergent opinions at times. For having gone so far beyond the official duty requirements, I think it'd be nice to give them due recognition and a big

Re: LTO throughput - real world experiences

2003-07-08 Thread Dan Foster
Another comment... LTO numbers should probably be reported as being LTO-1 or LTO-2. LTO-1 max uncompressed is 15 MB/sec, max compressed is 30 MB/sec; LTO-2 max uncompressed is 35 MB/sec, max compressed is 70 MB/sec. This assumes a typical average compression ratio of 2:1, of course. We use

Re: TSM Staffing level question for Enterprise Shop

2003-07-07 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Gordillo, Silvio was rumored to have written: TSM Staffing Level Question: I'm searching for documentation, industry best practised, bench marks, etc... on recommended staffing levels for our TSM Environment. Need to get pointed in the right direction to provide management with

Re: oops forgot the error message.

2003-06-22 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Scott Figgins was rumored to have written: I'm getting this error in my Server log on AIX 5.1 with TSM 5.1.6.5 after defining a 7336-205 4mm Tape library. Any ideas? IBM says this library is supported in the BASE codeset. 1. What is the output of: # lsdev -Cc tape 2.

Re: oops forgot the error message.

2003-06-22 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Dan Foster was rumored to have written: Hot Diggety! Scott Figgins was rumored to have written: I'm getting this error in my Server log on AIX 5.1 with TSM 5.1.6.5 after defining a 7336-205 4mm Tape library. Any ideas? IBM says this library is supported in the BASE codeset. 2

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
Also, is there a diskpool? ie: client-server[diskpool]-server[tapes] If there's no diskpool in between the client and the tape drives, will be a lot of stop/go writes to tape, resulting in about 1 MB/sec vs 10-25 MB/sec. At least, that's true for LTO-1 drives. I've heard that LTO-2 drives

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Colby Morgan was rumored to have written: The SCSI adapter is a 2940UW. It does run great with large files, so if we had an adapter hardware bottleneck file size shouldn't make a difference. We are running the v5.0.2183.1 of the Microsoft drivers. I also opened a call with IBM,

Re: Small TSM deployment

2003-04-05 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Levinson, Donald A. was rumored to have written: has anyone deployed TSM from a B50 or a 43p 140 ? I need to back up about 4 GB a night on a local network from 2 clients and maintain a total tape pool of about 2.5 TB on about 100,000 objects or less. A B50 is just a repackaged

Re: urgent! server is down!

2003-03-12 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Richard Sims was rumored to have written: After a reboot yesterday tsm doesnt start. ... ... ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt. ANR000W Unable to open default locale message catalog, /usr/lib/nls/msg/C/. ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANRD

Re: Automatic checkin on a 3584?

2003-03-04 Thread Dan Foster
Thanks for all the comments, suggestions, ideas, and code examples. They were very invaluable! I also found expect to be an interesting approach that I hadn't considered, but makes sense. Looks like I'm on the right track now; thanks again! -Dan

Automatic checkin on a 3584?

2003-03-03 Thread Dan Foster
Howdy - I seem to be having some sort of timing issues with the checkin process via an automated script. The procedure: 1. Fill the I/O station(s) with brought back tapes to be checkin'd 2. Issue a 'checkin libvol library search=bulk status=scratch

Re: Automatic checkin on a 3584?

2003-03-03 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! GUILLAUMONT Etienne was rumored to have written: You didn't say in what type of OS you where. If it is unix, no problem, you Oops! I'm normally good about that. Server is AIX 5.1 on pSeries 660 model 6H1 server. I do have some sleeps, but it's still running too fast or not exactly

Re: Linux 5.1.5.14-client

2003-02-19 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Tom Tann{s was rumored to have written: Hello *SM'ers! Is there a problem/bug in the libPiSNAP.so and/or libPiIMG.so? We don't use the default installation-path, but DSM_DIR, DSMI_DIR etc are set to the right paths. dsmc generated these entries in dsmerror.log:

Where to get 5.1.6.0 server for AIX?

2003-02-10 Thread Dan Foster
I have the 5.1.6.1 server code but that apparently requires 5.1.6.0 code be installed...and I can only find 5.1.5.4 and 5.1.6.1, but no 5.1.6.0 on the FTP site...? Is 5.1.6.0 supposed to be for-pay software for existing v5 customers? I know they yanked 5.1.6.0 due to serious QA issues, but it

Re: Where to get 5.1.6.0 server for AIX?

2003-02-10 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rumored to have written: [1]ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/mai ntenance/server/v5r1/AIX/LATEST/ Ahh! No wonder -- thanks! (I was looking at patches rather than maintenance tree.) Got it now. -Dan

Re: LTO Cleaning Cartridge Mount Points

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Joshua Bassi was rumored to have written: Does anybody know offhand the estimated number of cleanings an IBM LTO cleaning cartridge supports before it should be disposed of? Thanks in advance. Exactly 50. ;) It's got a built-in counter on the tape, and the IBM libraries will

Re: 3584 library loading

2002-12-17 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Matthew Glanville was rumored to have written: But, I have found bulk loading tapes with the door open on the 3584 is a problem when tapes are in the drives. I had to figure out which slots NOT to put tapes into because those are the slots that the tapes in the drives use. When

Re: TSM SERVER 5.1.5.2

2002-12-10 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! David Longo was rumored to have written: 5.1.5.2 has been out about a month or so now. Also that something else isn't broke? There was a major performance bug fixed in 5.1.5.3; we had a really nasty situation where a west coast client was sending data at only 2 Mbps to the east

How do you back up 2 PB of data?

2002-11-19 Thread Dan Foster
2 PB is 2,048 TB, or 2,097,152 GB. A fun thought exercise: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/11/19/ibm.supercomputerr.ap/index.html Well, assuming several things: 1. Using LTO (just because I know the numbers for this best off the top of my head) -- a 3584 library

Re: How do you back up 2 PB of data?

2002-11-19 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Orville Lantto was rumored to have written: A 72 drive, 10 I/O slot 3584 library will hold 2207 cartridges. with 175 GB/cartridge that works out to 6 libraries. Aye, in terms of tape capacity. However, if you have a requirement that it finish an entire full backup in a single day

Re: Help requested !!!

2002-10-06 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Murthy V Gongala was rumored to have written: I have a 3583 LTO library with 2 drives. TSM Server v4.2 on AIX. I have been running Scheduled backups without any problems so far. Yesterday the server started reclamation process for one of the Storage pools as shown below. 784

Re: Help requested !!!

2002-10-06 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Murthy V Gongala was rumored to have written: Level indicated by lslpp -l bos.rte.libc - 5.1.0.25 That sounds like 5.1 ML02 -- latest major patch set collection, very good. TSM shows the volumes as - Private. Ouch. Ok, the basic problem you're running in is that the TSM

Re: TSM 5.1 license registration failed?

2002-10-03 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Zlatko Krastev/ACIT was rumored to have written: look out carefully in 'q lic' output: Number of Managed System for LAN in use: 1 Number of Managed System for LAN licensed: 0 This ought to explain everything. Try 'reg lic file=mgsyslan.lic number=# of nodes you expect' D'oh.

Re: TDP for SAP R/3 on Solaris

2002-10-03 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Seay, Paul was rumored to have written: Is anyone using the TDP for SAP R/3 3.2.0.11 on Solaris 2.8 with Oracle 8.1.7 at SAP 4.6c2? Not I, unfortunately. No matter what we do we seem to have serious problems with restores and difficulty implementing the TDP in production. The

Re: TSM 5.1 client error

2002-10-03 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Mavis Jenkins was rumored to have written: So far, we've installed the server client on an RS6000 running AIX 4.3.3 The server is working fine if I use a 4.2 client from another server but if I use the 5.1 client installed on the same box as the TSM server, I get the following

Re: Does TSM use all DB Volumes for I/O?

2002-10-02 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Kilchenmann Timo was rumored to have written: I would vary much appreciate an answer to the question: Does TSM use all DB volumes for I/O (like round-robin) or does it fill a volume and then goes to the next one? I do not know for sure, because I don't know of a TSM way to report

Re: bad tapes

2002-10-02 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Alexander Lazarevich was rumored to have written: 1) is there any scenareo where a tape is still good, yet the server sets it to READ ONLY? Yes, there is. It can happen if you have a drive whose element ID mapping to rmt device name has gotten out of sync with each other. More

Re: TSM 5.1 license registration failed?

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Zlatko Krastev/ACIT was rumored to have written: - instead of grep-ping why you do not use `lslpp -L tivoli.tsm\*` or `tivoli.tsm\*license\*`. In this way you can see the version of filesets and ensure there is no one left from v4.2. You may also check reverse lookup - `lslpp -w

Re: Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar

2002-09-28 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Emil S. Hansen was rumored to have written: How about setting the mount retention for the devclass to something like 10 to 30 mins? That will keep the tape mounted for at least 10 mins after the last access, so that if the tape is needed by the client it will likely still be

Re: Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar

2002-09-28 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Dan Foster was rumored to have written: Hot Diggety! Emil S. Hansen was rumored to have written: How about setting the mount retention for the devclass to something like 10 to 30 mins? That will keep the tape mounted for at least 10 mins after the last access, so

TSM 5.1 license registration failed?

2002-09-28 Thread Dan Foster
I'm stumped by something (simple?) relating to TSM licensing. We've got a pretty plain vanilla TSM 5.1 setup with a 3584 tape library. No additional features purchased or in use (SAN, TDP, NMDP, etc). The 3584 requires a managed library license, as I understand it (has 12 drives and 610 tapes

Re: Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar

2002-09-26 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Coats, Jack was rumored to have written: Try 3 minute :( to get a LTO loaded and started spinning ... great for bulk store, but not up to 'interactive' response needs :( ... Using LTO for HSM would seem counterproductive IMHO. 3 minutes?! Something sounds wrong there. I've got a

Re: tapes getting marked PRIVATE

2002-09-20 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Seay, Paul was rumored to have written: Suppose when the tapes were labeled the drive that labeled them was bad and now none of the drives can read them. I had that issue pop up while setting up the 3584, and the culprit was when the /dev/rmtX and element ID mappings had fallen

3584 tape questions

2002-09-18 Thread Dan Foster
I've finally got the new 3584 library up and worked through all hardware and TSM issues, and just finished with the first round of successful tests. Looks sharp! Currently tuning the setup (disk, memory, network, TSM, etc). Environment: AIX 4.3.3 ML10, pSeries 660-6H1, TSM 4.2 (5.1 next week) to

Re: Help for 2108 failure

2002-09-17 Thread Dan Foster
The other possibility is that since the 2108 was replaced, there may be a small chance the /dev/rmtX mapping no longer matches what the previously assigned rmtX-to-element ID mapping was. Which conceivably could produce this sort of error, if TSM and the library disagreed about what

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! David Longo was rumored to have written: My experience with tapes in this condition is that the write protect tab was set on by accident. AS Dwighty check the tape out. Then check the Write Protect. If it is on, then set it off and check the tape back in as scratch. Looks like

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Koen Willems was rumored to have written: Maybe that the access state is unavaileble try q vol f=d look at the access state if it is not in a readw state use update vol access=readwrite Then do a move data on the volume to see if the remaining data moves Do a del vol and

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Zlatko Krastev/ACIT was rumored to have written: David already answered to question 2 but as an additional remark - when TSM started to write a tape volume uncompressed the tape has to become back scratch to start write on it with compression. Very interesting tidbit. I'll note

baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread Dan Foster
Couple unrelated questions: 1. When I query a 3570 library, there's one tape that baffles me: adsm q libvol 3570lib1 Library NameVolume NameStatus Last Use Home Element ----- 3570LIB1

SNMP MIB for TSM 4.2?

2002-08-13 Thread Dan Foster
Does anyone know where I can get a SNMP MIB definition file for TSM 4.2? I know it's capable of SNMP support, but in order to meaningfully use it, need a MIB to plug into the monitoring system and I don't seem to be able to find a MIB anywhere. -Dan

Multiple logical libraries for 3584

2002-08-13 Thread Dan Foster
I've got a question. One 3584-L32 with 6 drives and one 3584-D32 with 6 drives. Is it possible to have a logical library that covers 4 drives in the L32, and a second logical library that covers last 2 drives in the L32 and all 6 drives in the D32? Or is that not a valid configuration -- ie,

Re: SNMP MIB for TSM 4.2?

2002-08-13 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Mark Stapleton was rumored to have written: From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Foster Does anyone know where I can get a SNMP MIB definition file for TSM 4.2? I know it's capable of SNMP support, but in order to meaningfully use it, need

Re: Multiple logical libraries for 3584

2002-08-13 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Don France was rumored to have written: Yep (to the last question); you cannot span multiple physical libraries to make a single logical. You can define multiple logicals within a single physical; that is a common thing I've done, for various reasons. Darn. ;) But makes sense,

Re: Multiple logical libraries for 3584

2002-08-13 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Mark D. Rodriguez was rumored to have written: Judging by your configuration I beleive that you have just one physical library. I beleive the L32 is the base unit and the D32 is an expansion cabinet, i.e. the 2 of them are physicaly attached to one another and share the same

Re: Performance of TSM 4.1.4 with Solaris

2002-06-27 Thread Dan Foster
, which gives you the same performance as raw logical volumes, but with all the integrity protections of ufs. May be worth investigating if you'd like the best of both worlds. -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Re: Keeping an handle on client systems' large drives

2002-06-14 Thread Dan Foster
realistically do. :) With that said, I now return you to the normal *SM discussions. ;) (with the reason for copy stgpools driven home ;) ) -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Re: TSM 4.2/AIX setup questions

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
and then it wants them for the reclamation. But of course, for the other stgpools, reclamation does make sense. Much appreciated the pointers...big help, thanks! -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Keeping an handle on client systems' large drives

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
that's right ;) And the ones who warns well before a nasty event occurs may also be the first one to be fired out of spite after something happens and gets the blame for not having prevented it. -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Re: TSM 4.2/AIX setup questions

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
appreciate the TSM folks having made that an available option. Options are always great to have, even if not used.) -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Busy log files

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
'. This will cause TSM to read the file once Groovy, thanks. (Also appreciated the other poster whom also suggested looking at the serialization options.) -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Re: Keeping an handle on client systems' large drives

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
that luxury, especially at smaller places where end users may be configuring everything on their own. Anyway, the overall education/training approach is definitely cheaper than having to save everything on the HD, I do agree. ;) -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing

TSM 4.2/AIX setup questions

2002-06-12 Thread Dan Foster
you wanted when you wanted to copy a primary stgpool so that you could send it to another stgpool when ready (based on whatever trigger...space, date), such as in a disaster recovery scenario? -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000

2002-05-02 Thread Dan Foster
, rather than migrating to or from the SP, though. -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Re: UNABLE TO DELETE FILESPACE

2002-04-09 Thread Dan Foster
* TYPE=ANY -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

Re: mailbox.pst

2002-04-07 Thread Dan Foster
angry calls from execs. :) And then you've got some sites that runs call centers, and so forth. (24x7 operations, essentially.) -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications

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