Folks: Thanks for all the responses! In this case, the culprit was my co-worker, who didn’t realize that I was working on the issue, and issued a pair of “DELETE VOLUME” commands that ultimately resulted in the messages below.
Somewhat disturbing, though, that the only record was the ANR2017I messages documenting the command issuance… Bob T Robert Talda EZ-Backup Systems Engineer Cornell University +1 607-255-8280 r...@cornell.edu > On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Reese, Michael A (Mike) CIV USARMY 93 SIG BDE > (US) <michael.a.reese62....@mail.mil> wrote: > > My observation has been that it is one of those mysterious threads running in > the background that generates the ANR1423W messages so there is no associated > session/process and no entry in the activity log. Typically, these threads > run once an hour, measured from the time that TSM was last started. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Robert Talda > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 2:23 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [Non-DoD Source] [ADSM-L] Which process generates ANR1423W messages? > > Folks: > Does anyone know which process generates ANR1423W messages? The message > itself is somewhat innocuous: > > ANR1423W Scratch volume VVVVVV is empty but will not be deleted - volume > access mode is “offsite” > > but the intriguing part is there is no session or process associated with > the message, either in the activity log or in the ACTLOG table. Nor are > there any entries in the summary table for these entities - and the only > process running at the time was a storage pool backup for a different storage > pool. There were client backups in progress, but this message originated > from the server. > > I had two volumes with errors that I was struggling to get the data off for > several days - and suddenly, magically, an ANR1423W appeared for both > volumes. Headache gone, curiosity piqued. > > Thanks in advance, > Bob T > > > Robert Talda > EZ-Backup Systems Engineer > Cornell University > +1 607-255-8280 > r...@cornell.edu > >