Dan,
Here's our perl script.. Easy as perl is most likely to be installed on your
*IX.
Not that this script is not 100% fool proof, but at that time it was a 10
min effort
and still works like a charm. And as is with any other perl pgm, there are
more ways...
This script now in the public
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Hi *SM-ers!
Last weekend my server crashed. It was restarted yesterday morning and I
discovered that the TSM time is off by -1 hour since.
If I issue the DATE command in AIX I receive the correct time. I issued the
ACCEPT DATE command in TSM, but it doesn't help: TSM stays one hour behind.
I'm
Hi TSMers. =)
My customer is asking me some interesting questions I can't say I
know how to answer - regarding moving volumes and allocation of
scratch volumes across multiple libraries.
The system uses IBM's Content Manager OnDemand product to archive
documents -- which relies on TSM for
Loon,
Try by giving command ENABLE SESSIONS after giving the command
ACCEPT DATE
Thanks
Srinivas
-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Server time
Hi *SM-ers!
Last weekend
Hi Srinivas!
The serrver did not disable the sessions, so there is no need to enable
them. This is only if the system date/time is invalid and it's not. The
server does not complain, it's just one hour behind.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-Original Message-
The ability to support multiple drive types in StorageTek ACSLS or
LibStation libraries is enabled through the use of the external library
manager interface and an external library manager. By presenting multiple
virtual libraries through this interface, you can enable TSM to use multiple
drive
Last weekend my server crashed. It was restarted yesterday morning and I
discovered that the TSM time is off by -1 hour since.
If I issue the DATE command in AIX I receive the correct time. I issued the
ACCEPT DATE command in TSM, but it doesn't help: TSM stays one hour behind.
Eric - In that the
StorageTek 9310 tape libraries are only controllable via ACSLS or
LibStation. This is due to the fact that it only supports a TCP/IP (IEEE
802.3, 10baseT, half-duplex), RS423 or 3270 robotic control interface.
- Chris Young
-Original Message-
From: Hart, Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Richard!
That's a good one! I have had the AIX people check the .profile of the user
which started TSM (through SU2) but no overruling of $TZ could be found
there. Even though I think it has to be something like you mentioned.
Do you know if there is a way to display the environment of a
Hi everybody,
I want to upgrade my TSM-Server to Version 5.1.5.0. It runs on a OS390
System. I searched the database for problems with this version but can't
find anything. So, is it good or does nobody use this version. Are there
any bugs in this version? Any experiences with this version?
My
Do you know if there is a way to display the environment of a running
process?
Eric - Do: ps eww Server_PID Richard
I did not mean to confuse things with my choice of words.
By recycle, I meant to simply HALT (stop) and then START the TSM server.
Nothing more..nothing less
Chandrasekhar, C.R [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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03/03/2003 11:45 PM
Please
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
The only one available at the time was: F26. iMation was recommending
the 27 level. I got this level from our IBM CE.
Jim Kirkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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03/03/2003 04:49 PM
Please respond to jim_kirkman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm gonna upgrade a TSM server from 4.1.1 to 5.1.6.x on a NT4 server.
I can see through the readme file and the Quick Start Guide that I should
remove the current 4.1.1 TSM installation, and install 5.1.0 /5.1.5 in the
same directory (I was hoping that I could do an uppgrade without moving the
I have never done the remove/install procedure you are talking about.
Instead I typically just pop the new CD-ROM or launch the setup file if
I download it and perform an upgrade. All of your existing node and
data will remain the same and you should not lose anything.
--
Joshua S. Bassi
IBM
This is a strange one, not sure I've seen anything like it before. This
morning I saw reclamation still running and tried to cancel it. Check out
the command and reply back. I sent the command a second time and it did
take. Just one of those things
I'm on TSM client 5.1.5.9 on Win2K, server
Hello Sylvianer
You're absolutely right. You should follow the readme, and that's it. Before
you upgrade, do a dbbackup, and you can always get toback to where you were
before you upgrade.
Rgds (hilsen)
Geirr G. Halvorsen
-Original Message-
From: Sylvia Nergard [mailto:[EMAIL
We are 5.1.5.4 on AIX and I have seen this a hand full of times after
various commands. Just like you next command worked just fine.
Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203
-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04,
Hi!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
It says in the readme file that with TSM 4.2.x you can do an install
without removing the program firstbut with TSM 4.1you should remove the
program first.
Didn't know that it is so big difference between those two versions.
I feel that I have to do as
I see this alot on 5.* servers. It comes up with any type of command, q pr, upd no,
select... I haven't checked if there's an APAR open.
Guillaume Gilbert
CGI Canada
Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 2003-03-04 09:38:27
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Going to upgrade my production TSM AIX server from 5.1.1.0 to 5.1.6.2,
this weekend.
I have been running the 5.1.6.2 level on a test server, with no issues
(other than it deleting the library definition during the install).
I don't recall doing any UPGRADEDBs (it has been a while since the
IC35804. It was just opened, although we already have a solution in the
works.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply)
Greetings,
Anyone out there maintaining and backing up one of these? I'd be
interested in hearing about strategies employed. It runs on a MS-SQL
engine.
tia,
--
Jim Kirkman
AIS - Systems
UNC-Chapel Hill
966-5884
Hi Richard!
This was a new entry for our AIX guys. It revealed the probable cause. All
running processes have TZ=NFT-1DFT,M3.5.0,M10.4.0 in their environment
variables, except for DSMSERV. So I guess that's why it's running with the
system time -1 hour.
Why this variable was missing during
Going from 5.1.1.0 to 5.1.6.2 you do not need to worry about
the upgradedb.
The nomanclature is version.release.modification.patch .
If you are going from one version to another is when you would
encounter the upgradedb. Technically this is suppose to happen
automatically during the upgrade. For
The server side sees error ANR8216W Error sending data on socket nnn.
Reason 32. The client gets ANS1074W ***User Abort*** in the
dsmerror.log. TSM server is running on AIX 5.1 in 64 bit mode. The
problems are happening every night and started with the TSM upgrade.
I've opened a PMR but am
We just upgraded from 4.2.2 to 5.1.5.1 Sunday evening. It went very
smooth.One thing I haven't seen mentioned in anyone elses feedback is
the license file.
You should print off a copy of your current license file before you
upgrade. Once you perform the upgrade, the license info is lost and
I can agree with this statement, unless it is platform specific.
When I upgraded my TSM MVS server, going from 4.1.x to 4.2.x required an
UPGRADEDB !
Sias Dealy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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03/04/2003 10:44 AM
Please respond to hnre
To:
1. I note you are backlevel. There are some known bugs which have been
fixed, relating to failing to reset the log pointer after an incremental
backup. Update yourself! Back when I had this problem, the circumvention
was to restart the server.
2. Consider carefully what the message and its help
Now I'm getting this in the jbberror.log:
03/03/2003 10:58:38 psFsMonitorThread(tid 18584): Notification buffer
overrun for monitored FS 'E:\'.
03/03/2003 10:58:38 psFsMonitorThread(tid 18584): Reallocating 0x04cc
byte notification buffer.
03/03/2003 10:58:39 psFsMonitorThread(tid 18584):
The server side sees error ANR8216W Error sending data on socket nnn.
Reason 32. The client gets ANS1074W ***User Abort*** in the
dsmerror.log. ...
That server message is saying that the client severed the connection.
The client message is saying that it did so.
I would carefully examine your
The default notification buffer size for the TSM Journal Service is too
small. Look for this setting in the TSMJBBD.INI file and increase it.
You will find this file in the BACLIENT directory. I have been increasing it
to 0x0030 and my problems in this area have gone away. After increasing
it
Folks,
I know this has been covered but nobody has published the definitive how to
get out of this note.
Symptoms:
Volume is empty, readwrite in the library but won't go to pending or
scratch.
Try to delete the volume, message states, can't since volume is
mountablenotinlibrary.
Although, Q
Anyone had experiences, good or bad, with AIX backup client level
5.1.5.11?
David
Actually a change from one *release* to the next will require the
UPGRADEDB. It is only when going between PTFs and patches of the same
release that the UPGRADEDB is not required.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail:
This may be the error message that nobody expected see:
Here's the latest absurdity:
02/27/2003 02:05:55 ANS4042E Object name 'SYSTEM OBJECT' contains one or
more unrecognised characters and is not valid.
02/27/2003 02:05:55 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END CSM-LATE 02/26/2003 22:30:00
This is
From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From someone else
The server side sees error ANR8216W Error sending data on
socket nnn.
Reason 32. The client gets ANS1074W ***User Abort*** in the
dsmerror.log. ...
That server message is saying that the client severed the
connection. The
Still waiting to hear from the support center. Meanwhile I found an
entry in the aix backup client level 5.1.5.11 readme that sounds like a
match. We're going to try that on one of our machines.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/03 02:51PM
From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From someone else
I have Novell 4.11 servers we are backing up nicely, but need to be able to
do a cross system restore
to a Novell 6 server, of just the data. The Novell 4.11 are IPX only, and
Novell6 is TCP/IP only.
Our servers are on different NDS trees, but each can work nicely with the
same TSM 4.2.3.1 server
Heya *SMers,
This is a long one, grab a beverage.
I am running TSM 4.2.1.7 on AIX 4.3.3 on a dual processor B80 backing up
around 112 nodes with 5.2TB capacity 2.3TB used, storing 18.6 million
objects (3.2TB) in the primary and copy storage pools. The TSM database is
8.7GB running around 80%
We have a script to copy primary tape storage pools to a copy pool,
and a schedule defined to run the script every four hours. For the
last couple of days, it hasn't been running, and it shows a status of
Missed at each 4-hour interval. I haven't been able to find
anything in the activity log to
Here's the latest absurdity:
02/27/2003 02:05:55 ANS4042E Object name 'SYSTEM OBJECT' contains one or
more unrecognised characters and is not valid.
Those darned British spellings strike again! ;-)
I would do a 'chkdsk' or the like just to make sure that file system is
okay, and look for
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Novell 4.11 servers we are backing up nicely, but need
to be able to do a cross system restore to a Novell 6 server,
of just the data. The Novell 4.11 are IPX only, and Novell6
is TCP/IP only.
Our servers are on different NDS trees, but
Lookup the webports option in your client install and user guide. This
will allow you to fix the port numbers.
**Note new cell number below**
__
John Monahan
Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions
Computech Resources, Inc.
Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109
Cell:
Hmmm, an issue we all deal with in varying degrees...
Answer #1:
Yes, it will take longer to do your expire inventory. TSM will scan through
all the files looking for candidates, and performance is typically measured in X
thousand files examined in X seconds, the more files the
Could provide a little more background regarding this? Complete schedule
definition (Q SCH F=D), client options file, and pre- or postschedulecmd
files, client options set, more of the dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log, TSM
client version, client OS name/version, and TSM server version.
Andy Raibeck
I'm looking for a good recent comparison of TSM vs Veritas Netbackup...
Appreciate any links/suggestions on where to find a comparison.
Thanks,
Gerald Wichmann
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
925.598.3099 (w)
This e-mail has been captured and archived by the ZANTAZ Digital
I'm looking for a good recent comparison of TSM vs Veritas Netbackup...
Appreciate any links/suggestions on where to find a comparison.
As you would imagine, this has been discussed many times on the List.
Check the list archives, and see the whitepaper on the Tivoli site.
This is the environment.
AIX 5.1
TSM Client and API 4.2.11
DB2 7.2 FixPack 4
ba client can do incrementals and archives just fine.
Setup all the db2 variables, setup the dsm.sys and opt for the API - we
have other DB2 servers on AIX 4.3.3, same TSM and DB2 versions working
just fine.
Send a
Gerald, see www.tivoli.com/tsm and click on Comparing TSM and Veritas -
it's the shortened version of longer papers and presentations.
Joerg Pohlmann
604-535-0452
Gerald Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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2003-03-04 17:34
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hi All,
I have done upgradation from 4.1.x.x to 5.1.x.x may times but I never faced
any problems so far, In Quick Start Guide they clearly mentioned the steps
to upgrade, Suppose for example if we face any problem while up gradation
from 4.1.x.x to 5.1.x.x then what is correct procedure to back
hi Gerald Wichmann,
I don't have product features comparison between TSM vs Veritas, But just
have a look in URL for some real practical comparisons on performance etc.
http://www.progstrat.com/press/TSMBsrpr.htm
After reading this you get better picture about TSM.
Thanks,
C.R.Chandrasekhar.
hi Geralad,
You can look into below link, where u find a better solution
www.tivoli.com/products/documents/ whitepapers/wp-tsm-lto.pdf
Srinivas Polu
Systems Engineer.
Tivoli Certified Consultant(TSM)
HCL Technologies., NOIDA - INDIA
Phone No: 91-0120-4535071 Ext:3376.
Email:[EMAIL
Hi All,
Iam looking for product and features comparison between TSM/Netbackup/Legato
If any one have already done this please share the data else point me to the
location where I can get this details.
I required very urgently please help me !!
Thanks,
C.R.Chandrasekhar.
Systems Executive.
Gerald,
Pl. find the direct link to TSM Vs Veritas Document, Just click on it, you
will go the the document.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/tivoli/analystreports/ar-tsm-comparing-s
um.pdf
Srinivas Polu
Systems Engineer.
Tivoli Certified Consultant(TSM)
HCL Technologies., NOIDA - INDIA
hi,
yesterday night one of my 5.1.6.2 tsm server crashed (i mean only the tsm
software)
ibm is looking for the causes. by the way i am using 5.1.6.2 on 2 servers since
it had been released without
any problem except this one.
just for your info.
Burak Demircan
Mercedes-Benz Turk A.S
CEO
This is a problem for all the newer tape technologies. Typically, this is
caused by a bad batch of tapes or a case of tapes that has been slammed on
the floor or the librarian stacked them and knocked them on the floor.
Early in the delivery of K tapes there was a packing problem.
Also, make
This problem was fixed in the F_0295 Level (I think that is right). It is
the latest level.
-Original Message-
From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Errors on 3590 K tapes
Sounds a lot like what I
I believe at the 4.2.1 level you have to get a special version of the client
to run on AIX V5.1.
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/clie
nt/v4r2/AIX/v423/AIX51/
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04,
I have seen this product demonstrated, pretty impressive.
-Original Message-
From: Chris Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 7:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tivoli Storage Resource Reporting
While I couldn't comment in any great deal on this, I have
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