Re: Good Bye

2023-05-25 Thread Richard Cowen
Zoltan, Let us know how life after TSM feels. We all will be dreaming of an open API for a TSM admin query client, long after our last HALT command. Good luck in all your future endeavors. Richard Richard Cowen CPP Associates From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

V8 admin client delay

2022-02-10 Thread Richard Cowen
I have noticed that using the admin client dsmadmc with security = transitional seems to cause a several minute delay before the session seems to start. When run as administrator it functions normally. Any idea what’s going on? Richard Cowen

Re: Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not completing in 24-hours

2018-07-19 Thread Richard Cowen
Canary! I like it! Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 10:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not completing in 24-hours There's a couple

Re: Select from occupancy numfiles aberration

2017-12-13 Thread Richard Cowen
Has anyone seen a case when a select from occupancy returns rows where the NUMFILES columns is acting as an accumulator? SP 7.1.7.100 The command. select NODE_NAME,TYPE,FILESPACE_NAME,STGPOOL_NAME,NUM_FILES,PHYSICAL_MB,LOGICAL_MB,REPORTING_MB,FILESPACE_ID from occupancy Here is a sample

Re: Monthly backups of VMs

2017-11-16 Thread Richard Cowen
Can you use backupsets or export nodes to real tape (no client impact.) Or full restores to a dummy node and then archive those to real tape (once a month), again no direct client impact. Can the "monthlles" be spread over 30 days? Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Huge differences in file count after exporting node to a different server

2017-10-25 Thread Richard Cowen
If you saved or still have the actlog from the time of the export check for messages like: ANR0635I EXPORT NODE: Processing node RCOWEN in domain STANDARD. ANR0627I EXPORT NODE: Copied 2 file space 0 archive files, 23420 backup files, and 0 space managed files. ANR0629I EXPORT NODE: Copied

Re: Farewell

2017-07-20 Thread Richard Cowen
And thank you Paul for your contributions, and good luck to you. Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 10:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Farewell I seem to be

Re: No space available in storage pool failure but there is plenty of space

2017-07-18 Thread Richard Cowen
Yep - 100+ scratch tapes in both tape libraries. As I mentioned, there is no sign of any attempt to mount a tape and all drives were available at that time. On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Richard Cowen <rco...@cppassociates.com> wrote: > Do you have lib volumes available (scra

Re: No space available in storage pool failure but there is plenty of space

2017-07-18 Thread Richard Cowen
Do you have lib volumes available (scratch/empty)? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 11:24 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] No space available in storage pool failure but

Re: cancelling replication for a nodegroup

2017-04-19 Thread Richard Cowen
Jeannie, You could try looking in the processes table: Select PROCESS_NUM,PROCESS,START_TIME,FILES_PROCESSED,BYTES_PROCESSED,BYTES_TO_PROCESS,STATUS from processes where process='Replicate Node' Something like this comes back. 32701,Replicate Node,2017-04-02

Re: Some DISK volumes will not mount.

2017-02-28 Thread Richard Cowen
to remove those volumes that don't exit. Thanks for the help, I really apprciate it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Cowen Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Some DISK

Re: Some DISK volumes will not mount.

2017-02-27 Thread Richard Cowen
Ricky, Can you see the volume from the linux server? Maybe the /mnt/ddstgpool3 isn't mounted? Can you see the file on the DD? Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, Ricky Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:27 PM To:

Re: query occupancy command - file names

2016-08-07 Thread Richard Cowen
Paul, First, get a list of volumes that have data from that filespace in that stgpool. (use the table volumeusage) Then for each volume (say, volid), issue the SELECT with volume_name=volid. This will break the select into manageable chunks. The output can still be very large. One goal of

Re: Drive preference in TSM

2016-05-23 Thread Richard Cowen
Kumar, To use LAN-Free, you configure a TSM Storage Agent. On the TSM instance playing the role of Library Manager, you define all the drives and paths to the drives for the Library Manager to use. You also define paths for each of the Library Clients, using the appropriate local devices. The

Re: Script to register node using Curl and Rest API

2016-04-01 Thread Richard Cowen
That referenced page indicates a POST command to register a node. Does anyone know if the TSM server itself has (or is planned to support) the ability to listen to REST requests? Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Anderson

Re: Migration should preempt reclamation

2016-02-18 Thread Richard Cowen
A similar script could use MOVE DATA instead of RECLAIM, which has the advantage of checking as each MOVE ends to see if there are drive resources, and intelligently picking a volume, before starting a new MOVE. It also can check an external file for a "pause" or "halt" command, or parse the

Re: Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

2016-02-03 Thread Richard Cowen
I could not have expressed my own opinions better- thank you Roger. I still remember being skeptical going from the IBM Red Books (real paper) to PDF's. But it's not the same leap going to online "information centers". With each new release, I try again, but I am always disappointed. Maybe

Re: Select from Occupancy table is blank for Directory pool

2015-12-23 Thread Richard Cowen
Try REPORTING_MB. Also Select colname from syscat.columns where tabname='OCCUPANCY" and tabschema='TSMDB1' richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:07 PM To:

Re: Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

2015-12-14 Thread Richard Cowen
I, too, would ask however made this decision to rethink it. I have Guides I have used since 1999: v37 v51 v52 v53 v54 v55 v61 v62 v63 v71 Why stop publishing them (particularly in pdf form?) Richard PS. Kudos to Adobe for creating a truly "portable" format and retaining backward compatibility

Re: So long, and thank you...

2015-04-04 Thread Richard Cowen
Wanda. I thought you were going to say, So long, and thanks for all the fish. It is good to hear there is a next non-IT-support chapter in life. The collected wisdom of the list has just taken a big hit. I don't think it's a requirement to be working to stay subscribed to the list, in case you

Re: TDP Oracle issue: thousands of near simultaneous sessions per node

2013-05-29 Thread Richard Cowen
Rick, I have seen something similar recently. More than 1 million client sessions in 24 hours from a single DP Oracle node. My 32-bit perl script ran out of memory- a 64-bit version handled it... I haven't investigated any further, just a lot of ANR0406I/ANR0403I pairs. A few hundred

Re: Collocation anomaly report

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Cowen
Grant, If you care to script, do daily: Select new volumes assigned to pools in last 24 hours. (Maybe search actlog for ANR1340I messages.) Filter for volumes in pools with collocate (NODE or GROUP). For each volume check volumeusage for any nodes that do not belong. Assume the first node

Re: ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive (\\.\TapeXX) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume

2013-03-21 Thread Richard Cowen
Charles, Maybe this link will help- it suggests 7.0.0.8 HBA firmware ( a little newer than yours.) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21500578 Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Welton, Charles Sent:

Re: Monitor open volumes for a file deviceclass session

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Cowen
Keith, To do this accurately, it is necessary to build a kind of state map of sessions and processes and file/tape opens and closes. In the actlog, file/tape opens and closes are recorded with the volume name and linked to the session/process number that originated the request. (This

Re: TSM for Virtual Environments - Reporting

2012-09-28 Thread Richard Cowen
Shawn, Are you seeing these messages? ANE4146I Starting Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'vmname' ANE4147I Successful Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'vmname' ANE4148E Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC rc Do they have session/process numbers? There are a host of

Re: UN-mixing LTO-4 and LTO-5

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Cowen
I will be out-of-office from June 12th to June 15th. I will reply to emails when I can. Richard Cowen CPP Associates Cell 508-873-9468 Land 978-456-9968

Re: Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Cowen
A colleague just sent me this link: See DCF 1497567: Allocation and use of scratch and predefined FILE storage pool volumes http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21497567 By the way, keep in mind that at least on some appliances, the NFS-mounted filespace used/remaining space

Re: TDP for Databases 6.3 -- Documentation

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Cowen
It has been working, and just now started working again. Richard Cowen -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:38 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for Databases 6.3

Re: Expiration on a Test server

2008-08-15 Thread Richard Cowen
I did not interview much. The install date is in the status tren reoport file. -Original Message- From: Kauffman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Expiration on a Test server FWIW, we use

Re: ANR8963E ANR1791W

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Cowen
... ANR1791W HBAAPI wrapper library /usr/lib/libHBAAPI.a(shr_64.o) failed to load or is missing. This is because after enabling SAN Discovery, you need to stop/start the TSM instance to get the module to load. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: TSM locked me out!!!!

2008-01-03 Thread Richard Cowen
Any chance you have more than one instance of TSM running on that host? I have this problem on my laptop, running several instances, and after some days of not running, I try and start them up. The console (dsmserv) mode connection is always to the same instance, no matter what env variables I set

Re: Why virtual volumes?

2007-08-22 Thread Richard Cowen
I think orinally, it was because intersite SCSI/FC was impossible or too expensive, while IP was cheap. (Or maybe one TSM server had scsi tape drives and a second did not.) Virtual volumes are basically treating one TSM server as a client and archiving to the other TSM server over IP.

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: New Question Re - Tape problem after moving TSM to new server

2006-03-27 Thread Richard Cowen
There is (or should be) a file IBMtape.conf in /usr/kernel/drv. See the manual IBM SCSI Tape Drive, Medium Changer, and Library Device Drivers. GC35-0154-05.1 Look in the Solaris chapters 26-29. Basically you define which lun's IBMtape will see. There is a file in the same directory named

Re: TSM Database Size Growing Since Upgrading to 5.2.4.5

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Cowen
Graph your occupancy (num_files) by domain for each server and see if it shows uniform growth. If not, drill down to node occupancies (num_files), and so on. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Wednesday, January 25,

Re: HOW TO SCRIPT TSM BACKUP VERIFICATION IN WINDOWS

2005-10-28 Thread Richard Cowen
Issue a query backup using the TSM client on the node that does the backup, and compare the output to the directory in question. You can probably do that with the windows shell, but it is better in Perl, or some higher-level language. Dsmc query backup full_directory_path_name mylist.txt This

Re: HOW TO SCRIPT TSM BACKUP VERIFICATION IN WINDOWS

2005-10-28 Thread Richard Cowen
Oops. Here is the perl code in-line. #!/usr/local/bin/perl # # USes a query backup to verify a directory is backed up. # # Assumptions: # # The normal TSM environmentals will need to be set (DSM_DIR,DSM_CONFIG). # The dsmc.exe will need to be

Re: TSM Operational Reporting and E-mail

2005-09-13 Thread Richard Cowen
You could try: Open a DOS window. Enter: nslookup set type=MX super.net.pk You should see something like: Server: xxx.yyy.com Address: 111.222.222.001 Non-authoritative answer: yyy.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.yyy.com yyy.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger

Re: 1 of 3 TOR reports refuses to generate?

2005-08-11 Thread Richard Cowen
Hi Steve, Just out of curiosity, could you tell me what TOR is giving you that TRT doesn't? I am always interested in improving our product... Thanks.

Re: strange incremental behavior on Windows 5.2.2.0

2005-08-09 Thread Richard Cowen
Maybe this one? IC38377: Backup of Windows2003 System Object fails - ANS1950E - caused after a Microsoft VSS_E_PROVIDER_VETO error A fix is available IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2 Fix Pack 3 Clients and READMEs http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0uid=swg24007407

Re: Remote Vaulting

2005-07-07 Thread Richard Cowen
There is equipment available to extend fibre to any distance over IP for tape. The library/drives look local to the TSM server. Our customers use this solution quite a bit. Some do cross-connections between datacenters (I'll do your DR, you do mine.) Your hosuekeeping is somewhat different,

Re: NAS Backup Summary: Help!

2005-04-21 Thread Richard Cowen
I believe you will need to check the actlog and relate the Process number to the summary column NUMBER. ANR1064I Differential backup of NAS node ANODE, file system /filesystem1, started as process 1615 by administrator ANADMIN. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: How Many Backup Administrators to Data Backed Up?

2005-01-17 Thread Richard Cowen
/* Begin tongue-in-cheek */ I use this formula: wc = windoze clients xc = unix clients nc = netware clients nas = nas clients lf = lan-free clients lb = libraries d = number of different tape drive technologies s = tsm instances u = upgrades per year (O/S, DB, TSM, etc) pm = platform

Re: lbtest batch input file syntax

2004-09-30 Thread Richard Cowen
This is sort of old- use at your own risk. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Thu 9/30/2004 3:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lbtest batch input file syntax Has anyone figured out the syntax for the lbtest batch input file?

Re: journaling on SUN

2004-06-23 Thread Richard Cowen
Do files live forever? Or migrate to other storage after a year or two, or by some other (least-recently-touched) algorithm? I assume the files are functionally read-only. Are the path names date dependent? Is there an external list of newly added filenames? (This would be a psuedo journaled

Re: Taking dbbackups on remote TSM servers

2004-05-06 Thread Richard Cowen
There are several ways to do remote tape creation, and all are in use somewhere. Here are the most common. 1. Backup to a remote TSM server over IP and then create the tape locally. 2. Server to server via normal IP. 3. Tape extension works using IP, T3, DS3, OC3, WDM, etc. Many

Re: Month End Strategies (TDP for Exchange)

2004-03-30 Thread Richard Cowen
You might read the manual around the backup command, looking at the COPY type of backup. Note in the include/exclude configuration where you can specify a different MC for the different types of backup. Consider using a different MC for FULL and COPY backup types... -Original Message-

Re: lan-free tape dismount retention

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Cowen
in dsmserv.opt of Library Client: SHAREDLIBIDLE YES -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lan-free tape dismount retention Hello! I'm working on the TPOC right now and I have the mount

Re: IBM/TSM web site errors

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Cowen
Its working for me. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManag er.html click downloads and get to: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=663tc=SSGSG7dc=D400rankprofile =8 which has links (example patches to server v5 and ask you to login:

Rooting for Richard

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Cowen
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/mlb/1954826/detail.html B.C. To Play B.U. For Beanpot Trophy Eagles Have Three-Game Winning Streak Against Terriers

Re: System Object / Mgmt. Classes / Policy Sets / Backup Groups - - What's the best way??

2003-01-31 Thread Richard Cowen
tsm: ORCAV5help def clientopt DEFINE CLIENTOPT DEFINE CLIENTOPT (Define an Option to an Option Set) Use this command to add a client option to an option set. For details about the options and the values you can specify, refer to Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide. Privilege

Re: 3584 library loading

2002-12-17 Thread Richard Cowen
... Is that called a paradox or a conundrum? I would call that a Catch-22.

Re: tsm server monitoring products

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Cowen
on more strategic initiatives in the backup/recovery environment. Richard Cowen Senior Technical Specialist CNT 508-293-0337 John Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] (908) 898-1100 x 3514 -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:32 PM

Re: Summary Table Problems sample

2002-12-11 Thread Richard Cowen
Server 5.1.5.4 AIX 5.1 Clients STINGRAY1 5.1.5.5 (upgraded from 5.1.5.0 around 12:20:00) RICHARDC2K 5.1.5.4 NORBERT 4.2.1.15 Using the Summary Table: Session NodeStartTime EndTime Objects Bytes Elapsed Session PlatformMedia Wait 3

Request for large Oracle database (2 TB or larger) running RMAN/T DP, backup throughputs

2002-10-25 Thread Richard Cowen
Full and Incremental examples would be nice. If you decide to contribute, please include OS and platform models for Oracle host and TSM server, with network and library specs, number of streams, etc. Thanks in advance for any information.

Re: OK IBM _ ENOUGH ALREADY with the IBM/Tivoli TSM website -

2002-10-23 Thread Richard Cowen
I downloaded the AIX server v5151 yesterday, I can navigate the site today. ftp index.storsys.ibm.com Connected to serviceb.boulder.ibm.com. 220 serviceb.boulder.ibm.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(1) Mon Dec 3 15:26:19 MST 2001) ready User (serviceb.boulder.ibm.com:(none)): ftp 331 Guest login

Re: 3494 Utilization, and other Reporting Concerns

2002-09-09 Thread Richard Cowen
If the List doesn't mind occasional vendor self-interested posts, I would like to offer one for CNT's TSM Reporting Service. This is just one aspect of a more encompassing offering of TSM consulting and implementation services, but it may be germane to this thread. If we get a volunteer

Re: Documenting a Script in TSM : Issue Message

2002-09-06 Thread Richard Cowen
I believe you want: ISSUE MESSAGE (Issue a Message From a Server Script) Use this command with return code processing in a script to issue a message from a server script to determine where the problem is with a command in the script. Syntax ISSUE MESSAGE message_severity message_text

Re: Data in offsite pool that is not in onsite pool

2002-09-06 Thread Richard Cowen
Things to search for in actlog that can cause a volume to become unavailable: ANR1175W,unavail # Volume DHB003 contains files which could not be reclaimed. ANR1180W,unavail # Access mode for volume xxx has been set to unavailable due to file read or integrity errors. ANR1410W,unavail # Access

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

2002-08-15 Thread Richard Cowen
Do you use DRM and if so, do you copy all primary pools? If so, snapshot a DB backup and have your offsite people box up all your current offsite tapes plus this snapshot. Very carefully mark those boxes! Back at the TSM server, mark all these volumes as destroyed and let them be re-created as

Re: ANR8925W storage agent drive timeouts

2002-07-31 Thread Richard Cowen
I had a PMR on a similiar issue some time ago (Jan 2002) PMR 28921,469 - retention timeout for storage agent I don't know how my 20 minutes got to be your 10 minutes, though. Richard, Final answer is that it's hard-coded 20 minutes. Hopefully, your storage agent doesn't die very often, so

Re: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc

2002-07-25 Thread Richard Cowen
When will we be able to do this with a select statement and use a greater than symbol under windows? -Original Message- From: Andy Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc Consider it

Re: sun equivilent of rmdev/mkdev

2002-07-16 Thread Richard Cowen
Maybe you are looking for: add_drv / rm_drv ? Maintenance Commands add_drv(1M) NAME add_drv - add a new device driver to the system SYNOPSIS add_drv [ -b basedir ] [ -c class_name ][ -i 'identify_name...' ] [ -m

Re: upgrade from v4.2.2.5 to v5.1.0.0 failed (AIX)

2002-06-20 Thread Richard Cowen
Did you apply the latest patches to 5.1.0.0? (5.1.0.2, I believe.) -Original Message- From: Gretchen L. Thiele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: upgrade from v4.2.2.5 to v5.1.0.0 failed (AIX) I now in the process of

Re: mtlib command

2002-05-20 Thread Richard Cowen
mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -f /dev/rmt1 -qD Device Data: mounted volser.none. device category012E device state...Device installed in Library. Device available to Library. ACL is installed.

Re: Show Libr output

2002-05-10 Thread Richard Cowen
I see different output. AIX 4.3.3, TSM 5.1. tsm: ORCAshow libr MMSV-libList: head=31573A28, tail=31574268 Library L3494 (type 349X): reference count = 0, online = 1, borrowed drives = 0, update count = 0 basicCfgBuilt = 1, libInfoBuild = 1, definingPathToLibrary = 0 addLibPath = 0,

Re: virtual volumes?

2002-03-14 Thread Richard Cowen
I believe you need the copygroup defined as type=archive, not the default type=backup... (maybe not the only thing missing..) -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: virtual

Re: virtual volumes?

2002-03-14 Thread Richard Cowen
-Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: virtual volumes? I don't think that's the case. When I do a Q occ nodename, it displays the data as type ARCH, even though

Re: 3584 slots

2002-03-07 Thread Richard Cowen
From the Planning and Operator Guide (Third Edition (February 2001). Cleaning Cartridge To maintain the operating efficiency of the drive, IBM supplies a specially labeled IBM LTO Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge with each 3584 UltraScalable Tape Library. Each drive in the library determines when it

Re: Server Migration - AIX to HP

2002-03-01 Thread Richard Cowen
-Original Message- From: Robin Sharpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server Migration - AIX to HP ... BTW, export/import isn't supported either, although it may work. ... Is this from a Support call? The

Re: Server-side scripting: not supported?

2002-03-01 Thread Richard Cowen
-Original Message- From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server-side scripting: not supported? OK, a little deeper... we have 5 groups of stg areas, basically... Since TSM doesn't give you a

Re: How to use string operators in select statement - TSM.

2002-02-28 Thread Richard Cowen
select msgno from actlog where msgno=2565 MSGNO -- 2565 2565 2565 2565 2565 2565 2565 2565 2565 2565 2565 Mostly useless as is. Maybe: select date(date_time) as date,time(date_time) as time, substr(message,10,2) as

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Cowen
I am sure others will reply, but why not use large cached primary disk pools? If you need to, define a separate pool for each important client, large enough to hold a full backup. That way, all the active files will usually be in the pool. (Exceptions will break this, eg a big file that changes

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Cowen
-Original Message- From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Idea for a TSM feature ... This would not break anything with TSM. It is really simple to get in a state where your disk pool has only

Re: 1 Gb. Ethernet adapter

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Cowen
Are you sure its a gigabit adapter? Try a lscfg -vl entN You should see something like: This is for a Gigabit adapter. $ lscfg -vl ent2 ent2 30-68Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI Adapter (14100401) Network Address.0002559A2F2F Displayable

Re: lbtest

2002-02-18 Thread Richard Cowen
I got this from Joel Fuhrman of washington.edu. I have scripts that work, so I know the document speaks accurately. -- lbtest Caveat == This document describes how to use the lbtest tool

Re: dsmserv restore db problem with 3494 libr

2002-02-15 Thread Richard Cowen
Matching APARs. Note the dates and closed status. These are for 3.7 and 4.1. Pretty confusing. Does someone have a newer APAR? APAR= IC29523 SER=IN INCORROUT DATABASE RESTORE WILL FAIL FOR 3494 LIBRARY

Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage

2002-02-13 Thread Richard Cowen
as flat CSV files, including the meta information to process them, and that you kept that DICOM display utility for that old medical image data) Richard Cowen Senior Technical Specialist CNT

Re: Identifying client schedule mode.

2002-01-24 Thread Richard Cowen
As was suggested, check the activity log. You will have to associate the messages yourself, TSM does not do a very good job tying messages logically together. The session below that has a summary record is 955. 01/23/2002 10:00:01 ANR2561I Schedule prompter contacting NORBERTSTA (session 952)

Re: Handling spikes in storage transfer

2002-01-15 Thread Richard Cowen
Do you have a platform-compatible box? Set up a dsm.sys/dsm.opt with that node name, and do something like: dsmc query backup /filesystem-name/* -fromdate=1/1/2002 -todate=1/2/2002 Add -fromtime -totime if desired. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Handling spikes in storage transfer

2002-01-14 Thread Richard Cowen
You could also try a query content on some of your disk storage pools, assuming thats where the node's data is going first. Why can't you check the client's log? query content volume-name node=node-name filespace=fs-name -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Migration/storage pool backup ?'s

2002-01-04 Thread Richard Cowen
A small script to issue the appropriate MOVE DATA commands may be easier to control than auto migration. Foreach stgpool where device_class_name=DISK and stgpool_type=PRIMARY foreach volume where pct_utilized 50 and stgpool_name=$stgpool move data $volume_name to

Re: copying scripts between tsm servers

2001-11-30 Thread Richard Cowen
-Original Message- From: Steve Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: copying scripts between tsm servers I need to copy dozens of scripts from one TSM 4.1.3 server to another. Any suggestions? source: query

Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM

2001-11-19 Thread Richard Cowen
-Original Message- From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM We are failing on the DRM license which we really did purchase. Don't seem to have the DRM.lic file to correct this. We

Re: tsm 4.2.1 licensing

2001-10-18 Thread Richard Cowen
tsm 4.2.1.2, AIX: 10/09/01 16:04:59 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: REGISTER LICENSE file=50mgsyslan.lic 10/09/01 16:04:59 ANR2852I Current license information: 10/09/01 16:04:59 ANR2853I New license information: 10/09/01 16:04:59

Re: ibm3493

2001-10-04 Thread Richard Cowen
Page 204ff of the Operator Guide (GA32-0280-13). Note: You can also view LAN information from the 3494 Tape Library Specialist (see 3494 Tape Library Specialist Features and Functions on page 255). The LAN options option allows the following operations: v Add LAN host v Delete LAN host v Update

Re: Import node from a shared library..

2001-09-25 Thread Richard Cowen
Is this a SCSI shared library, and are doing the import on the client tsm server? If so, you may want to check: APAR= IC31078 SER=IN INCORROUT WHEN USING A LIBTYPE=SHARED LIBRARY, YOU ARE UNABLE TO RUN AN EXPORT, IMPORT, DB RESTORE OR RESTORE BACKUPSET.

Re: Problem with 3494 / 3590 drives only partly seen by library

2001-08-31 Thread Richard Cowen
Works here. (same environment, but direct FC attached) Maybe your SAN DG needs to have its scsi rescanned. You could try delete the drives under TSM, rmdev -dl under AIX, rescan at the SAN DG, cfgmgr, define the drives under TSM, and try again? # lscfg -vl rmt4 DEVICELOCATION

Re: Problem deleting a storage pool volumes via move data

2001-08-29 Thread Richard Cowen
see apar IC29607. fixed, supposedly, in 4.1.4.0 maintenance level.

Re: problems with 3583 ultrium library

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cowen
I'm having a the following problem with a 3883 library with three lto drives: ANR8358E Audit operation is required for library MAXIM. ANR8834E Library volume **UNKNOWN** is still present in library MAXIM drive LTO1 (/dev/rmt7), and must be removed manually. Is there a message on the LCD panel

Re: Database entry size for an object

2001-06-26 Thread Richard Cowen
From a posting of mine last year: (adsm v3.1) From the occupancy table: 22,254,868 ARCHTAPE archives on tape 40,030,448 BACKUP3590_OFFSITEbackup copypool on tape 40,065,503 TAPEPOOL backups on tape 102,350,819

Re: 3494, multiple tsm's connected, balancing media

2001-02-14 Thread Richard Cowen
Snyder.John [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: This configuration should allow us to "rebalance" the number of scratch tapes between the different servers as required. (ie: if I need to move some tapes from server A to server B, I don't need to peel and stick any volser labels!) So far, so

Re: Sending messages to an email address on Windoze?

2001-02-13 Thread Richard Cowen
Is there a mailx for Windoze? From MS? thanks

Re: DSMADMC from Visual Basic Shell Function?

2001-02-06 Thread Richard Cowen
Shell environments set (dsm_dir, dsm_config, path) ? I am not a vbs expert, but I can do this with cscript: testcmd="dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=pw -outfile=test.out " + arg0 set wshshell=wscript.createobject("wscript.shell") wshshell.run testcmd,0,True -Original Message- From: Fletcher,

counting tapes

2000-10-18 Thread richard cowen
# of tapes used for backups on a daily basis. The simplest way is to do daily queries of your backup storage pool volumes complement, and track the increase. Or you could look in the actlog for msgs 1340,1341,1360,6684... Or at the tail of your volhistory disk file: unix tail

Re: Scripts/Tools to monitor drive usage?

2000-10-18 Thread richard cowen
Here is a sample html I create by querying the actlog.

Re: TSM 4.1 vs. 3.7

2000-10-11 Thread richard cowen
Interestingly enough, today I received TSM 4.1 in the mail. If IBM says I'm licensed for this product them I guess I'll have to believe them. Now the next question is which way to go. I'm running on AIX 4.3.3 with a 3494 library. I have both 3.7 and 4.1 but am having problems deciding if I

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Cowen
How do I determine how many physical slots my 3494 library has? mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qL | grep cells How do I determine how many tapes are offsite? a) select count(*) from volumes where stgpool_name='BACKUP3590_OFFSITE' (where a storagepool is used for offsite.) b) select count(*) from drmedia

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Cowen
tsm: TSMselect count (*) from volumes where devclass_name='stk9710' Unnamed[1] --- 0 tsm: TSMselect count (*) from drmedia Unnamed[1] --- 49 tsm: TSMselect avg(EST_CAPACITY_MB) from volumes where devclass_name='stk9710'

Re: samples..........

2000-09-11 Thread Richard Cowen
I had an auditdb (fix=no) on a 10 GB database running for 40 hours. (AIX, RS/6000, C20, SCSI-disks) Greetings, Pieter "Wakefield, Nigel" schreef: Does anyone have example auditdb fix=yes times for me to compare with my audit which is running on 40 GB database.?? Does

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