Unfortunately this keeps happening with different clients and the sessions can't be cancelled without taking down the entire server. Is there any way to force a session to end? They won't cancel and they never time out so the recovery log just keeps filling up as one of the sessions has the log pinned. This sounds like a bug to me but who knows at this point. I'm running AIX server v5311 and different levels of clients but most are 5300. John
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On=20 Behalf Of John C Dury >As several people suggested, what is happening is that I have=20 >at least one >client session that is seemingly hung and causing the recovery=20 >log to be >pinned. I've tried cancelling the session but it doesn't work and just >hangs. It never seems to timeout either. Any other way to cancel the >session without having to take the whole server down? My=20 >recovery log is >filling up again and this hung session is causing the recovery=20 >log to be >pinned. Any clues why the session wouldn't ever timeout or=20 >also fail to be cancelled? Not really. It could be a corrupt file (or filesystem) on the client. I would: 1. Take the offending client off of its schedule. 2. Stop and restart the TSM server service after all other activity is quiesced. 3. Carefully examine the dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log files to try to determine the offending bit. 4. Tell the offender's owner the problem and work together to come to a resolution. -- Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com) IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 Office 262.521.5627 =20