Hello David, It is a nice suggestion. Maybe an additional ACTION=xxx argument, like SCANUNAVAILABLE? Unfortunately my powers are insufficient to drive new feature requests through this forum. I recommend going to the following URL to enter the formal request:
https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas Others can also vote on it. Best regards, Andy Andrew Raibeck IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 IBM Systems, Storage stor...@us.ibm.com IBM -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of David L.A. De Leeuw Sent: Monday, 22 August, 2022 04:24 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Audit container Wonderful that Andy is on this list ! I hope that he can be a smart interface between us, simple users, and the mighty IBM... Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When checking the server I try: Query container state=unavailable ----------------------------------------------- And found 26 unavailable containers. Usually this happens because of some communications failure between the server and the container storage, which are in different buildings/vlans. Now I have to run on each container: Audit container XXXX ------------------------------ Wait some minute or two and run the next one. To "automate" this, make a script, copy the list of bad containers to notepad++, edit the file, so it looks like: update script auditfix "audit container XXXYYY001.dcf wait=yes" line=011 update script auditfix "audit container XXXYYY002.dcf wait=yes" line=021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ run this in the tsm admin window and then run: run auditfix ---------------- Here my proposal: Fix "audit container" to allow: Audit container state=unavailable wait=yes ------------------------------------------------------------ Or: Query container state=unavailable audit=yes ------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks David de Leeuw Ben Gurion university of the Negev Beer Sheva Israel
