Excellent! This did the trick and I can now export a node to the other server. Thanks for your help. I believe this will also solve my other thread also "* [ADSM-L] move nodes from one server to a different server via export<http://adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/2012-10/msg00018.html>"
Hi, Define server uses servername and serverpa to validate where as ping uses admin name and pass to validate session. Make sure the admin and pass on server where you issue the ping also is avail on the server you ping to. Kind regards, Karel ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: Dury, John C. <JDury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM> Verzonden: woensdag 3 oktober 2012 23:34 Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Onderwerp: [ADSM-L] define server for replication We have 2 datacenters and plan on having a tsm server at each site. Every client will backup all o the nodes at that site to the tsm server at that site and then replicate their data to the server at the other site. Both servers are running tsm 6.3.2. One is aix and one is linux. The linux server is brand new and was just built. The aix server has been around seemingly forever and is currently backing up nodes from both sites. I've read through the manual on replication and believe I understand how it works. Just as a test, I successfully defined both servers to each other and successfully replicated one small node from one server to the other. For whatever reason, the servers stopped taking to each other (I can't find any reason anywhere) so I decided I would delete the replicated node on both servers and also delete each server from the other and redefine them. When I try "def server <2ndserver> serverpassword=<serverpassword> hladdress=2ndserver.blah.blah lladdress=1500" (with correct values of course), it works successfully but when I try "ping server 2ndserver" it always fails with "ANR4373E Session rejected by target server 2ndserver, reason: Authentication Failure." I've tried making sure that all of the below were done on both servers: set serverhladdress set serverlladdress set serverpassword and tried with both crossdefine on and crossdefine off. I can't find any logic as to why this doesn't work when I know for a fact it worked previously. There are no nodes type=server defined on either tsm server. The userid I am using to do the command is the same on both servers and has the same password although I don't think that matters. Both servers have nothing currently set for target replication server. The replicated node I used for testing is also still defined on the target server and I can't delete it either because it says "ANR1633E REMOVE NODE: Node NODENAME is set up for replication and cannot be renamed or removed.". The replication settings on the replicated node on the target server are replstate=disabled replmode=receive. I can't change the replmode no matter what either. Is anyone else successfully using replication? It worked once and hasn't since and now as I am trying to set it all up again as if from scratch, I can't even get the two servers to talk anymore. Help!