Wanda, Yes, the Web interface would work, you would just have to pay attention to which screen you were on, since all four would look alike. I think it is a lot of key clicks for each tape mount, too, since the Web interface isn't meant to be a regular operator's interface, and doesn't have speed or ease-of-use in mind.
Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries... From: Wanda Prather <wprat...@jasi.com> Date: Fri, July 10, 2009 10:15 am To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Thanks John - I like your idea of the script to do the mounts! It also reminds me, those puppies have a web interface. We could do the moves with that, as well, if I can talk them into setting up 4 IP connections. If not, I'll crank up my perl skills... W On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM, John D. Schneider < john.schnei...@computercoachingcommunity.com> wrote: > Wanda, > My solution isn't much better, but here goes: > > 1) Like you said, define 1 manual library, 1 device class, with 4 LTO4 > drives, and get them all working and defined to the DR environment. > 2) You will be using the IBM drives, of course, so I am presuming the > IBM drivers will be installed by you or your DR vendor. > 3) Start a TSM administrator window in -console mode, so you can see the > tape mount requests. > 4) When your tape operator sees a tape mount request, he puts the > appropriate tape in the I/O door belonging to that tape drive's library. > 5) You didn't say if you were Unix, Linux, or Windows. I will explain > it as if it is AIX, and you can transpose. From a Unix shell window, > your tape operator uses tapeutil, the linemode library manager that > comes with the IBM drivers, to do the tape mounts for you. He can issue > the commands to move the tape from the element number of the I/O door > straight to the tape drive. > 6) When he sees an unmount request, he issues the tapeutil command to > move the tape from the drive to the I/O door, and puts the tape back in > the stack. > > If it were me tackling this one, I would write two short ksh scripts > called "tape_mount" and "tape_unmount" where the tape operator just puts > in which tape volser he is mounting, and which drive it should go in, > and let the ksh scripts translate that into the actual device name, and > tapeutil syntax, so there would be fewer mistakes. > > Also if it were me, I would build this experimentally using a tape > library or libraries and drives while still back home, so I could build > the script and debug it, then bring it with me to the DR exercise, and > all I would have to change would be the /dev/smcX and /dev/rmtX device > names, and start mounting tapes. > > Do you see any fatal flaws in this? It is a lot like your original > idea, but typing the mounts and unmounts on the faceplate of four > different TS3100's would drive me buggy. Hopefully this would be less > tedious. > > Best Regards, > > John D. Schneider > The Computer Coaching Community, LLC > Office: (314) 635-5424 > Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 > Cell: (314) 750-8721 > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ADSM-L] Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries... > From: Wanda Prather <wprat...@jasi.com> > Date: Thu, July 09, 2009 8:33 pm > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > I'm drawing a blank here, any suggestions welcomed. > > I have a TSM customer who makes their copypool tapes using a TS3200 with > LTO4 drives. > The TS3200 is a rack-mounted, 2 drive, 40-mumble slot standard ASCII > library. No issues. > One copy pool, tapes vaulted and sent offsite. > > They want to go to a commercial DR vendor site and do a DR test next > week. > The commercial DR vendor, unbelievably, has no multi-drive LTO4-capable > libraries. > > Instead, they want us to use 4 (count 'em, four) TS3100 libraries. > The TS3100 is a rack-mounted, 1 drive, 20-mumble slot standard ASCII > library. > > There's only 1 copy pool, so all tapes were created on the same device > class. > Ignoring the which-carts-would-go-in-which-library issue, I can't have a > device class pointing to 4 libraries. > > And, the TS3100 is built in such a way that unlike a TS3500, you can't > open > the doors and access the drives for manual mounting. > (I'd be happy to pull the covers off and try it, ignoring any warranties > I > might void, but I doubt the vendor will let me attack the thing with a > screwdriver/wrench/hacksaw.) > > If I put all the carts in one TS3100 that will work, but that leaves me > only > 1 drive to restore all the clients, and they won't likely get done in > the > desired time window. > > The only thing I can think of to use all 4 drives, is to define those > four > TS3100's as 1 manual library with 4 manual drives, and use the front > panel > of each TS3100 to move tapes from the I/O slot to the drive when TSM > requests a mount. > > (Actually the FIRST thing I thought of, was "cancel the DR contract, > this is > nonsense". But my customer isn't convinced yet...) > > Anybody got a better solution? > I've already tried a margarita, it didn't help.... > > W >