Below is the explanation of the last error message. Follow the instructions and you may be able to restart the server. Yiannakis
ANR0212E Unable to read disk definition file file specification . Explanation: At startup, the server cannot read the indicated file in order to obtain a list of disk volumes to mount. System Action: Server initialization fails. User Response: Use a text editor to recreate the file; it should contain one line with the name of a single log or database volume. Then restart the server. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hashim, Shukrie BSP-IMI/211 Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM server down I tried dsmserv command and it gives me this ..why ? ANR0900I Processing options file /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv.opt. ANR7811I Direct I/O will be used for all eligible disk files. ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0212E Unable to read disk definition file dsmserv.dsk. -----Original Message----- From: Dwight Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 June 2004 11:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM server down in the install directory there might be a "dsmserv.err" file that is the default error logging file for the tsm server start by looking in there once you get the server restarted after any unexpected halt, you should always check the activity log for any messages that might indicate what happened when and why... but just because the admin command line session can't connect doesn't mean that the tsm server process is dead... looks like you are running an AIX server so try, from a unix prompt, ps -ef | grep dsmserv if you see the running task, your connection problem might be elsewhere... Dwight E. Cook Systems Management Integration Professional, Advanced Integrated Storage Management TSM Administration (918) 925-8045 "Hashim, Shukrie BSP-IMI/211" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To HELL.COM> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc Dist Stor Manager" Subject <[EMAIL PROTECTED] TSM server down .EDU> 06/22/2004 08:40 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" hi there my TSM server suddenly was down ... twice for the past 2 weeks ... once was on the 17th June and the one was today ... 23rd June ... I dunno what is wrong ... when I tried to log in by typing ... dsmadmc then it did ask me for my user id then ... when I typed in my user id .... i press enter and then .. it gives ... this message ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure ANS8023E Unable to establish session with server ANS8002I Highest return code was -50 Solutions I tried :- * I tried restarting the server using this command but didn't work nohup /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/rc.adsmserv & * when the first time the server was down ... on the 17th june ... I restarted the machine itself then ... using this command shutdown -Fr it was fine after that then ... this second time ... I tried he shutdown command again and .. rc.adsmserv was running but ... the webadmin and the dsmadmc console was not available .. at all ... Please advice ... Shukrie Hashim
