Re: AutoVault Disaster Recovery Scripts

[Ted Byrne]

I used AutoVault to recover a customer's AIX TSM server at Sungard.  It
worked well and made the  process significantly smoother.

Ted Byrne


 >Thanks to all for the feedback regarding tape vaulting.
 >I decided to try Code Relief's AutoVault product.
 >For a newbie to TSM, I found the trial download
 >version easy to install and configure.
 >So far, it has been working well and I like the price
 >much better.

 >I am curious if anyone has tried using AutoVault's
 >recovery scripts for the TSM server.
 >I don't have the spare hardware to test it
 >and I am not about to restore to my live server.

 >Ed Mullin
 >Audio Technologies, Inc.

Re: 3494 Connectivity and lmcp

[Williams, Tim]

Just an FYIThe hostname 'changed' on us when we went from AIX
4.2 to 4.3.
We had to update the LM with the 'long' name  hostname.coname.pvt
(instead of just the host name...)...
pressing for answers, but haven't got them yet...
the hostname in the ibmatl.conf file doesn't matter.I'm pressing
to have the comments within
the ibmatl.conf file changed (who knows when they'll hold me to it).
Preliminary answers have confirmed that there doesn't have to be a
match on the hostname in the ibmatl.conf file (not used)
and the hostname in the LM...
Its hard to get good quick answers in this area, but I'm not about
to let go.
FYI





William Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
09/13/2000 02:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SMTP@Exchange
cc:

Subject:Re: 3494 Connectivity and lmcp

Make sure that the LAN Connection IP Address and Hostname are
correct. The
LM will do a reverse name lookup on the IP address that is trying to
connect
to it to get a hostname. This hostname returned by DNS must match
the
hostname you defined in the LAN Connection entry on the Library
manager.
Check the LM logs to see why the LM is rejecting the connection, if
it's
getting that far.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
"A Life? Cool!! Where can I download one of those?" - ???

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of
Palmadesso Jack
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 Connectivity and lmcp


You should also check and see if the lmcp daemon is running.

ps -ef|grep lmcpd

-Original Message-
From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 Connectivity and lmcp


>I am attempting to connect an RS/6000 SP system to a 3494 tape
library.
>I think I have followed the manuals correclty, but cannot access
the
>library using the mtlib commands.  I keep getting the message that
says
>the library is offline to the host.

Um, is the library offline to the host?  Go to the 3494 and check
its
state.  Ping it from your host to assure continuity.  Make sure your
host
is defined as authorized to the Library Manager.  Assure that your
/etc/ibmatl.conf is correct.
Richard

Re: Auto-negotiate setting for NIC's

[John Monahan]

I'm also one of the people who always hard sets both ends to 100 full on
servers.  In my experience with auto-negotiate, things look fine and dandy
when looked at quickly, i.e. link lights at 100 and FD and data passing
fine, but problems seem to occur under heavy load.  I noticed slight
throughput problems only after really stress testing the links with large
FTP transfers.  Monitoring the port on the switch would show several CRC
errors, bad headers, etc., much more than "normal".  Also placing a sniffer
directly on the server in question would eventually show dropped frames due
to hardware errors.  Most errors wouldn't occur until transfer rates
starting exceeding the 14-15 mb/s range, which is where throughput would
pretty much max out.  Hard setting both ends eliminated all the errors and
increased the transfer throughput at least 3 fold, in the best cases.

I included a variety of vendors in testing:
HP and IBM server hardware
IBM, HP, 3COM, and Intel nics
IBM, HP, and Cisco switches

Some equipment did auto-negotiate well together, most of what I gathered
seemed to depend most upon the switch vendor, more than any other factor.
I have actually had the best luck with Cisco switches and Intel nics, both
latest and greatest models.  It seems to work well for the desktops, I
don't mess around hard setting those.

My advice would be test it yourself.  Raw results will prove the best
settings in your environment.


===
John Monahan
Network Administrator
Liberty Diversified Industries
(763) 536-6677
===




Jeff Connor
   cc:
Sent by: "ADSM:  Subject: Auto-negotiate setting for 
NIC's
Dist Stor
Manager"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.EDU>


09/14/00 01:21 PM
Please respond to
"ADSM: Dist Stor
Manager"





 Over time I've seen posts on this listserv about not using
auto-negotiate for network interface cards and hard coding the
line speed like 100mbit full duplex.  They use auto-negotiate on
all of our Compaq Windows NT servers here and can't help but
wonder, based on posts on this listserv, whether our server NIC's
are really running at 100mbit full duplex.  I asked one of our NT
admins to check one of our servers. They used Comaq's Insight
Manager software which showed the NICS at the correct speed.
Could it be lying?  Can any of you that have had problems with
auto-negotiate, even better with Compaq servers, share your
experiences?


Thanks,
Jeff Connor
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

Re: Formatting SQL select statement output

[Andy Raibeck]

You can try specifying a header for your columns that contains imbedded
blanks. For example (something a little simpler, but it illustrates what I
am saying):

select date_time as "Date and Time ",
   message as "Message   < 90 blanks >"
   from actlog where date(date_time) = '2000-09-14'

I use a 132-column command prommpt, so this exploits the full width of my
command line window. Of course, don't use the text "< 90 blanks >"; I just
put it there to tell you how many blank spaces I used to pad out the
message header before closing the quote.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM/Tivoli
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked."

Formatting SQL select statement output
How do I change the output of the column width in a select statement?
Below is a select statement I am currently working on and would like to
expand the message column to something wider than the default 18 chr.

Dave T

ADSM  Version 3
Release 1
Level 2.3

select date_time as "Date and Time", message from actlog where msgno=1210
and cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1 and
substr(message, 41, 7)='SRVTAPE' or (msgno=0986 and
cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1 and
substr(message, 18, 2)=(select substr(message, 97, 2) from actlog where
msgno=1210 and cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1
and substr(message, 41, 7)='SRVTAPE'))

 Date and Time MESSAGE
-- --
2000-09-14 ANR1210I Backup of
   02:00:17.00  primary storage
pool SRVTAPE to
copy storage pool
OFFSITE started
as process 81.
2000-09-14 ANR0986I Process
   02:35:00.00  81 for BACKUP
STORAGE POOL
running in the
BACKGROUND
processed 1045
items for a total
of 10,893,062,729
bytes with a
completion state
of SUCCESS at
02:35:00.

Re: TSM Server 4.1.1

[Tim Williams]

Checked the TSM V4.1 CD readme.srvand nothing that I could find indicates
that you'll have to re-register licenses.
I dug in 'books' and found a step (quickstart book) (under:Migrating to Tivoli
Storage Manager Version 4.1
You can install Tivoli Storage Manager Version 4.1 over a previous version of
ADSM or TSM. This is called a "migrate install". :)

7.Your licenses from the previous version are no longer valid and must be
reregistered. See Registering Licenses.
  Note:
   The tivoli.tsm.license package is required to register licenses. This
 package is installed when you install the TSM server package.
I also saw this:
Note:
  If you migrate from ADSM, your existing licenses are no longer valid. You
must update your license information.
(and TSM to TSM (ie 3.7 to 4.1??) (also in the quickstart, CD based doc).

to readme(s) or to read quickstart infonow have to check both??
FYI





[EMAIL PROTECTED]
09/14/2000 03:43 PM

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SMTP@Exchange
cc:

Subject:  Re: TSM Server 4.1.1

This should be fully documented in the README file.
The 4.1 server has a different licensing scheme than the 3.7 version of the
server.
The 3.7 licenses are not recognized by 4.1.  You need to do the REGISTER LICENSE
commands on the 4.1 server.

The current architecture of the license manager is any new version will have
a different license scheme than the older versions of the server.  The newer
version will not recognize the older licenses.  My suggestion is to put all of
your
REGISTER LICENSE commands in a file.  This way you can run that file
as a macro to re-regsister licenses as needed.  You will also see something in
README file about performance and the size of your nodelock file if you are
running NT or AIX.  Before you register the licenses I recommend you delete
your nodelock file to get rid of the old license strings that are no longer
valid.  The server will eat up CPU cycles to decode those old license strings
that
it will just end up ignoring because they are for an older server version.

>Not suprising (argh!).any info in the README files? (it wouldn't suprise me
>if there weren't)...
>When I get to it AND if I see the same symptoms when I upgrade to 4.1 AND if
>there's no info in any readmeI'll open yet another etr/pmr...
>Anyway...hopefully you have your *.lic files   (we're aix...server)...they are
>in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory (usually...):
>then the command
>register lic file=/usr/fivoli/tsm/server/bin/50client.lic
>(for example).
>FYI Thanks Tim

>>I just upgraded my TSM Server 3.7.3  to 4.1.1 from the TSM FTP site.  All went
>>well except for the license information.  License information shows that I do
>>not have any valid licenses.  Server Utilities shows that my licenses are
3.7.3.
>>
>>What do I need to do so that I can get this thing working?  I do have a two
year
>>software subscription so this should not be a problem.


David Bohm
TSM server development
email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM Server 4.1.1

[David_Bohm]

>As it says in the README

>>This is a smit/installp installable PTF that will install as
>>level 4.1.1.0. You must have the base level (4.1.0.0) installed
>>otherwise this PTF will fail to install.
>
>I wouldn't be surprised if you need to pay for the baselevel CD.


This is a good point.  I did not consider this could be what
they did.  You can not go to 4.1.1 from 3.7.anything without
first putting on the base product 4.1.0.0.  There are things
missing from the PTF.  The licensing executable and the server
executable from different versions will not work together.  The
licensing executable only comes in the base product.  If the
two executables are from different versions then you are running
in try-buy mode.

David Bohm
TSM server development
email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SQL Activity Summary Table Entries

[Bill Colwell]

I am on 3.7.3.6 for os/390 and it is not fixed.  Examined and
affected are the same.  I opened a pmr about this and sent doc
but I haven't heard anything from ibm in over a month.


--
--
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge, Ma.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--


In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/14/00
   at 04:50 PM, "E. J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>For Client Monitoring and Reporting, I am going to
>generate reports against the system summary table. ie:
>select * from summary
>However, when I compare the table data to the
>backup statistics in the activity log, the examined,
>affected, failed, and successful fields do not match.
>I am currently at 3.7.0.0 and understand that there is
>a PTF at 3.7.2.0 that addresses the summary table.
>Can anyone who is currently at 3.7.2.0 or higher
>verify that this is fixed?  I wasn't planning on
>upgrading my system until Nov-Dec, but if this is
>fixed I will do it now.

>__
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!
>http://mail.yahoo.com/

Re: Auto-negotiate setting for NIC's

[James Healy]

I've heard that this problem manifests itself mostly with 3com cards(thats what we use 
in our compaqs)  and we make sure we specify 100/full when defining the card. then 
there is no way it can utilize anything else. If your entire network is 100 mb stay 
away from aut-negotiate with the 3com cards.

Jim



-
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!

Re: TSM Server 4.1.1

[David_Bohm]

This should be fully documented in the README file.
The 4.1 server has a different licensing scheme than the 3.7 version of the
server.
The 3.7 licenses are not recognized by 4.1.  You need to do the REGISTER LICENSE
commands on the 4.1 server.

The current architecture of the license manager is any new version will have
a different license scheme than the older versions of the server.  The newer
version will not recognize the older licenses.  My suggestion is to put all of
your
REGISTER LICENSE commands in a file.  This way you can run that file
as a macro to re-regsister licenses as needed.  You will also see something in
README file about performance and the size of your nodelock file if you are
running NT or AIX.  Before you register the licenses I recommend you delete
your nodelock file to get rid of the old license strings that are no longer
valid.  The server will eat up CPU cycles to decode those old license strings
that
it will just end up ignoring because they are for an older server version.

>Not suprising (argh!).any info in the README files? (it wouldn't suprise me
>if there weren't)...
>When I get to it AND if I see the same symptoms when I upgrade to 4.1 AND if
>there's no info in any readmeI'll open yet another etr/pmr...
>Anyway...hopefully you have your *.lic files   (we're aix...server)...they are
>in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory (usually...):
>then the command
>register lic file=/usr/fivoli/tsm/server/bin/50client.lic
>(for example).
>FYI Thanks Tim

>>I just upgraded my TSM Server 3.7.3  to 4.1.1 from the TSM FTP site.  All went
>>well except for the license information.  License information shows that I do
>>not have any valid licenses.  Server Utilities shows that my licenses are
3.7.3.
>>
>>What do I need to do so that I can get this thing working?  I do have a two
year
>>software subscription so this should not be a problem.


David Bohm
TSM server development
email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM Server 4.1.1

[Joshua S. Bassi]

All, or most all, of the lic files have changed from 3.7 to 4.1.

Licensing is a whole new ball game in 4.1.


--
Joshua S. Bassi
Senior Technical Consultant
Symatrix Technology, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Tim Williams
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM Server 4.1.1


Not suprising (argh!).any info in the README files? (it wouldn't suprise
me
if there weren't)...
When I get to it AND if I see the same symptoms when I upgrade to 4.1 AND if
there's no info in any readmeI'll open yet another etr/pmr...
Anyway...hopefully you have your *.lic files   (we're aix...server)...they
are
in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory (usually...):
then the command
register lic file=/usr/fivoli/tsm/server/bin/50client.lic
(for example).
FYI Thanks Tim





Dean Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
09/14/2000 12:09 PM

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SMTP@Exchange
cc:

Subject:  TSM Server 4.1.1

Please Help

I just upgraded my TSM Server 3.7.3  to 4.1.1 from the TSM FTP site.  All
went
well except for the license information.  License information shows that I
do
not have any valid licenses.  Server Utilities shows that my licenses are
3.7.3.

What do I need to do so that I can get this thing working?  I do have a two
year
software subscription so this should not be a problem.

Thanks

Dean Winger
Director of Computer Services
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI  53706
(608) 265-3202 phone
(608) 263-6448 fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Formatting SQL select statement output

[Bart Colbert]

Dave,

The only real formatted output option that I have found that
helps any is a macro command.

create the file
mymacrofile.macro (example)

(contents)
set sqldisplaymode wide
commit
[mycommandhere]
commit

dsmadmc -id=yourid -password=yourpasswd macro "/path/mymacrofile.macro"

Hope this helps.
Bart

Dave wrote:
---
Formatting SQL select statement output
How do I change the output of the column width in a select statement?
Below is a select statement I am currently working on and would like to
expand the message column to something wider than the default 18 chr.

Dave T

ADSM  Version 3
Release 1
Level 2.3

select date_time as "Date and Time", message from actlog where msgno=1210
and cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1 and
substr(message, 41, 7)='SRVTAPE' or (msgno=0986 and
cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1 and
substr(message, 18, 2)=(select substr(message, 97, 2) from actlog where
msgno=1210 and cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1
and substr(message, 41, 7)='SRVTAPE'))

 Date and Time MESSAGE
-- --
2000-09-14 ANR1210I Backup of
   02:00:17.00  primary storage
pool SRVTAPE to
copy storage pool
OFFSITE started
as process 81.
2000-09-14 ANR0986I Process
   02:35:00.00  81 for BACKUP
STORAGE POOL
running in the
BACKGROUND
processed 1045
items for a total
of 10,893,062,729
bytes with a
completion state
of SUCCESS at
02:35:00.

Re: TSM Server 4.1.1

[Fred Johanson]

As it says in the README



>This is a smit/installp installable PTF that will install as
>level 4.1.1.0. You must have the base level (4.1.0.0) installed
>otherwise this PTF will fail to install.

I wouldn't be surprised if you need to pay for the baselevel CD.



At 09:33 PM 9/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Not suprising (argh!).any info in the README files? (it wouldn't
>suprise me
>if there weren't)...
>When I get to it AND if I see the same symptoms when I upgrade to 4.1 AND if
>there's no info in any readmeI'll open yet another etr/pmr...
>Anyway...hopefully you have your *.lic files   (we're aix...server)...they are
>in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory (usually...):
>then the command
>register lic file=/usr/fivoli/tsm/server/bin/50client.lic
>(for example).
>FYI Thanks Tim
>
>
>
>
>
>Dean Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>09/14/2000 12:09 PM
>
>To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SMTP@Exchange
>cc:
>
>Subject:  TSM Server 4.1.1
>
>Please Help
>
>I just upgraded my TSM Server 3.7.3  to 4.1.1 from the TSM FTP site.  All went
>well except for the license information.  License information shows that I do
>not have any valid licenses.  Server Utilities shows that my licenses are
>3.7.3.
>
>What do I need to do so that I can get this thing working?  I do have a
>two year
>software subscription so this should not be a problem.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dean Winger
>Director of Computer Services
>Wisconsin Center for Education Research
>1025 West Johnson Street
>Madison, WI  53706
>(608) 265-3202 phone
>(608) 263-6448 fax
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fred Johanson
System Administrator, ADSM
S.E.A.
University of Chicago
773-702-8464

AutoVault Disaster Recovery Scripts

[Ed Mullin]

Thanks to all for the feedback regarding tape vaulting.  I decided to
try Code Relief's AutoVault product.  For a newbie to TSM, I found the
trial
download version easy to install and configure.  So far, it has been
working well and I like the price much better.

I am curious if anyone has tried using AutoVault's recovery scripts for
the TSM server.  I don't have the spare hardware to test it and I am not

about to restore to my live server.

Ed Mullin
Audio Technologies, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: TSM Server 4.1.1

[Tim Williams]

Not suprising (argh!).any info in the README files? (it wouldn't suprise me
if there weren't)...
When I get to it AND if I see the same symptoms when I upgrade to 4.1 AND if
there's no info in any readmeI'll open yet another etr/pmr...
Anyway...hopefully you have your *.lic files   (we're aix...server)...they are
in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory (usually...):
then the command
register lic file=/usr/fivoli/tsm/server/bin/50client.lic
(for example).
FYI Thanks Tim





Dean Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
09/14/2000 12:09 PM

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SMTP@Exchange
cc:

Subject:  TSM Server 4.1.1

Please Help

I just upgraded my TSM Server 3.7.3  to 4.1.1 from the TSM FTP site.  All went
well except for the license information.  License information shows that I do
not have any valid licenses.  Server Utilities shows that my licenses are 3.7.3.

What do I need to do so that I can get this thing working?  I do have a two year
software subscription so this should not be a problem.

Thanks

Dean Winger
Director of Computer Services
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI  53706
(608) 265-3202 phone
(608) 263-6448 fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Excludes in TSM

[Fred Johanson]

Thanks, Trevor.  Now I've had to explain to management why I'm trapped in a
number of the proverbial hard places: I've run with a patch before, and the
attendant problems were worse than the fix, but if I can't exclude files or
filesystems on a DB machine, I can't run a backup.  I've got the same
dilemma with server code: 3.7.3.14 will allow me to turn on shared
3494/3590, but can I afford to run with an unsupported patch?  Maybe things
will get clearer when management get thru digesting the following paragraph
from a README in the maintenance directory:


>The Tivoli Storage Manager client versioning has changed starting with
> version 3.7. When a new PTF is built, the maintenance level will be
> raised
> by one. Thus 3.7.0.0 is the Initial GA level, and the first PTF will be
> 3.7.1.0. The last number is reserved for special fixtests which are
> sometimes necessary between tested PTF levels.

Have we lost a level of supported code here?  With ADSM, vrmf (like
3.1.2.5) was in the fixes directory, while vrmff (3.1.2.57) was in
fixtest.  With TSM, both are in patches.


At 09:42 AM 9/14/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi Fred,
>
>Stuff under the maintenance directory are formal, fully tested releases.
>The patches directory contains fixes to known problems that needed to be
>fixed quickly. Therefore the changes have not been put through the same
>level of testing as a formal release. As a general rule you should not
>install updates from the patches directory unless you have or are likely
>to have the problems that the update is designed to fix.
>
>
>Trevor
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, 14 September 2000 6:47 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Excludes in TSM
>
>
>I'm still getting used to the way Tivoli organizes things.  I've installed
>what was in LATEST from .../maintenance/...  Should I get the latest from
>.../patches/... instead?
>
>
>At 09:40 AM 9/12/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >What version of TSM 3.7.?.? What operating system. We are using Windows NT
> >with TSM version 3.7 on our server and a combination of 3.7.1.0 and
> >3.7.2.01 on the clients (I am slowly getting rid of the 3.7.1.0 clients due
> >to the fact that the exclude statements are ignored.) Going to release
> >3.7.2.01 als fixes several other problems with 3.7.1.0 (I think I have a
> >copy of what PMR's release 3.7.2.01 has if you like)
> >
> >Sean Duffy
> >Network Analyst
> >Alcatel Canada TA
> >
> >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Fred Johanson
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ICAGO.EDU>  cc:
> > Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Excludes in TSM
> > Dist Stor
> > Manager"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > T.EDU>
> >
> >
> > 09/11/00 12:56
> > PM
> > Please respond
> > to "ADSM: Dist
> > Stor Manager"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Last week, I upgraded my server to TSM V3R7.  The client had been TSM for
> >months and seems to have had no problem with the exclude file, which looks
> >like
> >
> >EXclude  /adsmdb/.../*
> >EXclude  /adsmlog/.../*
> >EXclude  /adsmstgpool1/.../*
> >EXclude  /adsmstgpool2/.../*
> >
> > ...
> >
> >EXclude  /adsmarch/.../*
> >
> >I'd done an incremental before the upgrade and the occupancy for V3R1 was
> >about 4Gb.  After the upgrade, I started another incremental.  I waited a
> >reasonable length of time and I checked: 4Gb and still going.  It kept
> >going all afternoon, and the q sess showed 10Gb, 15Gb, etc.  It was still
> >run when I got home and it ran all night.  The next morning, q sess showed
> >100Gb and counting.  Q fi showed that it had processed a 30Gb and a 18Gb
> >storagepool.  What led me to cancel was the q occ of the node, which showed
> >that the process had backedup both storage pools and was starting on the
> >DB.  The pattern of the excludes has been working since V2R1, but suddenly
> >something seems to have gone wrong.  Have I missed something?
> >
> >

Fred Johanson
System Administrator, ADSM
S.E.A.
University of Chicago
773-702-8464

SQL Activity Summary Table Entries

[E. J.]

For Client Monitoring and Reporting, I am going to
generate reports against the system summary table. ie:
select * from summary
However, when I compare the table data to the
backup statistics in the activity log, the examined,
affected, failed, and successful fields do not match.
I am currently at 3.7.0.0 and understand that there is
a PTF at 3.7.2.0 that addresses the summary table.
Can anyone who is currently at 3.7.2.0 or higher
verify that this is fixed?  I wasn't planning on
upgrading my system until Nov-Dec, but if this is
fixed I will do it now.

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Re: DISKETTE

[Shekhar Dhotre]

Thanks ,




"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 09/14/2000 03:22:05 PM
Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400
cc:

Subject: Re: DISKETTE

Most likely it is a tar. You can use:

tar -tvf /dev/fd0 :to view it
tar -xvf /dev/fd0 /dest/path  :to extract it

Your system may refer to the floppy as something
other than fd0.

Roger C Cook



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Shekhar Dhotre
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DISKETTE


Hi all,
real quick question ,
every day DRM  module creates a diskete containing volhist , dev conf, and
...
i dont know exactlly what does it contains .
neither chapter 21 tells you what does it contains .(Admin Guide for AIX0
i tried to read that files , but i could not , i tried  from DOS -
systemsasks
do you want tio format it .
 from unix commands used dosdir , dosread , no use .. how to use this
diskeete in Disaster Recovery scenario
or is this a tar format or what ?

Re: DISKETTE

[Roger C Cook]

Most likely it is a tar. You can use:

tar -tvf /dev/fd0 :to view it
tar -xvf /dev/fd0 /dest/path  :to extract it

Your system may refer to the floppy as something
other than fd0.

Roger C Cook



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Shekhar Dhotre
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DISKETTE


Hi all,
real quick question ,
every day DRM  module creates a diskete containing volhist , dev conf, and
...
i dont know exactlly what does it contains .
neither chapter 21 tells you what does it contains .(Admin Guide for AIX0
i tried to read that files , but i could not , i tried  from DOS -
systemsasks
do you want tio format it .
 from unix commands used dosdir , dosread , no use .. how to use this
diskeete in Disaster Recovery scenario
or is this a tar format or what ?

DISKETTE

[Shekhar Dhotre]

Hi all,
real quick question ,
every day DRM  module creates a diskete containing volhist , dev conf, and ...
i dont know exactlly what does it contains .
neither chapter 21 tells you what does it contains .(Admin Guide for AIX0
i tried to read that files , but i could not , i tried  from DOS -  systemsasks
do you want tio format it .
 from unix commands used dosdir , dosread , no use .. how to use this
diskeete in Disaster Recovery scenario
or is this a tar format or what ?

Re: Auto-negotiate setting for NIC's

[Gerald Wichmann]

I have seen numerous problems with auto-negotiate myself. Usually it's a
problem between the NIC and the switch port. I've found a simple test is to
FTP some fairly good sized files back and forth to see what kind of
throughput you get. In one particular case I went to en environment where
TSM backups were seeing a network throughput of 600-1000K/sec.. this was
horrible as I was used to seeing 4000-5000K/sec.. Backups were running well
into the day.. something was seriously amiss. After doing some sniffing (we
were seeing lots of runt packets which was unusual), FTP xfer tests (which
were also bad) and moving ports around on the switch (initially we thought
the Cisco switch planer itself was bad, because when using a different older
switch the problem disappeared), I suggested forcing one of the NT boxes to
full duplex 100Mbps instead of auto-negotiate (I routinely force AIX boxes
to full duplex 100Mbps these days so the TSM server was already set that way
and we noticed that port behaved better then the others). That fixed it so
we forced them all to that setting..  Now that environment is the fastest
I've seen ranging from 6000K/sec to over 1K/sec during TSM backups.. all
from that change.

But that was a bit unusual and extreme. I've definetly seen AIX boxes in
general be a lot happier when forced to Full Duplex 100Mbps..

So the answer is.. "it depends?"..

Gerald Wichmann
RS Engineer
Sansia System Solutions
408-844-8893 work
408-844-9801 fax

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff
Connor
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Auto-negotiate setting for NIC's

 Over time I've seen posts on this listserv about not using
auto-negotiate for network interface cards and hard coding the
line speed like 100mbit full duplex.  They use auto-negotiate on
all of our Compaq Windows NT servers here and can't help but
wonder, based on posts on this listserv, whether our server NIC's
are really running at 100mbit full duplex.  I asked one of our NT
admins to check one of our servers. They used Comaq's Insight
Manager software which showed the NICS at the correct speed.
Could it be lying?  Can any of you that have had problems with
auto-negotiate, even better with Compaq servers, share your
experiences?


Thanks,
Jeff Connor
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

Restore Performance - What Are the Factors?

[Steven Chaba]

Server: H50, AIX 4.2.1, ADSM 3.1.1.5 (yeah, I know,we 're working on the
upgrade)
Client: NT Server 4.0SP5, ADSM 3.1.0.6 (or .7)

We're doing our-world testing for performance of restores, which is currently
estimated to be unnacceptable (i.e. 2 weeks to bare-metal restore an NT campus
server with 100 Gb of data).

We probably have a fairly brain-dead installation, as it was done by a
consultant 2 years ago who rode off, never to be heard from again, and the
in-house admin retired last year without ever really learning the subtleties of
ADSM. Meanwhile, the number of ADSM clients has probably quadrupled to around
100 from what it originally was in 1998.

We've done a series of tests to simulate the effect of collocation (i.e. an
archive of about 10 Gb, which spanned two tapes). In several variations (GUI vs.
command line, etc), restoring the archive produced a top throughput of 1.2 to
1.5 Gb/hr, which makes the estimated restore time for a full NT machine simply
career-threatening instead of asinine and ridiculous.

We are investigating some network issues, but aren't ready to point a finger
there just yet. We're also looking at the configurations of the NT boxes (i.e.
RAID arrays for disks, how are they cached, etc).

A question that came up for me to follow up on:

When doing a restore in a non-collocated environment, ADSM seems to: a) locate a
tape it needs in the 3494 library, b) mount the tape, c) read whatever it needs,
from a few bytes to a few Gb, d) repeat as necessary until it's done. It never
seems to use more than one 3590 drive simultaneously, even though we have four
and some or all of the others may be idle or even have no tape mounted in them.
Is there an option I missed somewhere that says "Use as many drives as you can
during a restore, to stage one tape while reading from another, or even read
from multiple tapes simultaneously"?

Above and beyond that, is there information out in the big wide world as to what
factors to consider and what parameters to check (end-to-end i.e. ADSM server,
network, and ADSM client) to maximize restore performance, especially in the
case of a large amount of data (10-100 Gb) all at once to a single ADSM client?

Please copy me directly on any answer, as I receive the list digest and it seems
to foul up at least two or three days a week.

Thanks in advance.
Steven

Steven Chaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lead Analyst, ADSM/AIX/HACMP (and other amusing and confusing acronyms) Support
Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation
Rochester, NY

Some backups disappearing from event log?

[Daniel Swan/TM]

My manager came to me today with an interesting problem:  It appears that
the event logs that are sent to him at 8am, and again at 5pm, differ in that
the second lacks some events reported on the earlier server.

As far as I can tell, this may be because I made a change to the schedule in
question.

Is this the correct interpretation?  Does anyone find this a bit odd?

Formatting SQL select statement output

[Tomblin, David]

Formatting SQL select statement output
How do I change the output of the column width in a select statement?
Below is a select statement I am currently working on and would like to
expand the message column to something wider than the default 18 chr.

Dave T

ADSM  Version 3
Release 1
Level 2.3

select date_time as "Date and Time", message from actlog where msgno=1210
and cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1 and
substr(message, 41, 7)='SRVTAPE' or (msgno=0986 and
cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1 and
substr(message, 18, 2)=(select substr(message, 97, 2) from actlog where
msgno=1210 and cast((current_timestamp-date_time)days as decimal(12,0))<1
and substr(message, 41, 7)='SRVTAPE'))

 Date and Time MESSAGE
-- --
2000-09-14 ANR1210I Backup of
   02:00:17.00  primary storage
pool SRVTAPE to
copy storage pool
OFFSITE started
as process 81.
2000-09-14 ANR0986I Process
   02:35:00.00  81 for BACKUP
STORAGE POOL
running in the
BACKGROUND
processed 1045
items for a total
of 10,893,062,729
bytes with a
completion state
of SUCCESS at
02:35:00.

Re: Auto-negotiate setting for NIC's

[Cooper, Joel (US - Hermitage)]

I have 200+ Compaq servers.

One set is remote, and they are set to 100/Full. Insight Mgr doesn't lie.
The other set is set to Auto. And this works fine.
The only time we've ever had a problem is when the port in the 3Com switch
is not matched to the NIC.
If we have Compaq NIC Auto ---> 3Com Switch Auto, no problems.
If we have Compaq NIC 100/F --> 3Com Switch 100F, no problems.
If either is off, we see throughput of about 1 (ONE) mBit.

Because we go through the switch to the TSM NIC, its setting is not relevant
as long as it is set correctly to communicate through the switch.

Joel Cooper
Deloitte & Touche LLP
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Jeff Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Auto-negotiate setting for NIC's


 Over time I've seen posts on this listserv about not using
auto-negotiate for network interface cards and hard coding the
line speed like 100mbit full duplex.  They use auto-negotiate on
all of our Compaq Windows NT servers here and can't help but
wonder, based on posts on this listserv, whether our server NIC's
are really running at 100mbit full duplex.  I asked one of our NT
admins to check one of our servers. They used Comaq's Insight
Manager software which showed the NICS at the correct speed.
Could it be lying?  Can any of you that have had problems with
auto-negotiate, even better with Compaq servers, share your
experiences?


Thanks,
Jeff Connor
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

Auto-negotiate setting for NIC's

[Jeff Connor]

 Over time I've seen posts on this listserv about not using
auto-negotiate for network interface cards and hard coding the
line speed like 100mbit full duplex.  They use auto-negotiate on
all of our Compaq Windows NT servers here and can't help but
wonder, based on posts on this listserv, whether our server NIC's
are really running at 100mbit full duplex.  I asked one of our NT
admins to check one of our servers. They used Comaq's Insight
Manager software which showed the NICS at the correct speed.
Could it be lying?  Can any of you that have had problems with
auto-negotiate, even better with Compaq servers, share your
experiences?


Thanks,
Jeff Connor
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

Re: TSM vs FDR/Upstream

[Edward(Ed) J. Finnell, III]

 Gartner has a comparison of all the storage products,
 but it wants $95US for it.(Well worth it,IMHO).

Edward(Ed) J. Finnell, III
Enterprise Systems/Proj. Mgr.
url:www.ua.edu

Re: 3494 Connectivity and lmcp

[Tom Melton]

Found the problem, the cable we were using for the tty connection to the
3494 apparently was not a null modem cable, and so I added a null modem
adapter and all is well.

Thanks, especially to Richard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .

-Tom

>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/13/00 01:00PM >>>
>The port is available, but will not initialize.  I have contacted IBM.


Ah.  Good to have found something there.

>Different question, kinda drawn out, you accept phone calls?  This
>concerns RS/6000 escon attached 3490s and scsi attached 3590s in the
>same machine.  Want to take a shot at the question?

I have experience with scsi attached 3590s, but not ESCON, so I could
not provide insight on the combo.  Sorry.  If you should need to call,
though:  617 353-8249.

  Richard

TSM Server 4.1.1

[Dean Winger]

Please Help

I just upgraded my TSM Server 3.7.3  to 4.1.1 from the TSM FTP site.  All went well 
except for the license information.  License information shows that I do not have any 
valid licenses.  Server Utilities shows that my licenses are 3.7.3.

What do I need to do so that I can get this thing working?  I do have a two year 
software subscription so this should not be a problem.

Thanks

Dean Winger
Director of Computer Services
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI  53706
(608) 265-3202 phone
(608) 263-6448 fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New TSM 4.1 client download

[Vraspir, Mary J.]

Did you make sure your download was binary?
MV

-Original Message-
From:   Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:New TSM 4.1 client download

Hi *SM-ers!
I have downloaded the new TSM 4.1.1 Windows client. When I execute
the exe
archive it issues the error: "The contents of this file cannot be
unpacked.
The executable you are attempting to run had been corrupted. Please
obtain
another copy of the file, verify its integrity, and try again."
I checked the file size, my file has exactly the same size as the
one on the
FTP server.
Has anybody else been able to use this archive?
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon



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oracle tdp/rman/rman repository issues

[CANNAM, CYNTHIA L (SBCSI)]

To all:

Environment:AIX 4.3.3
TSM server 3.7.3
Oracle TDP 3.7.1
Oracle 8.1.5/6
TSM client V3.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3

We've been trying to get some historical data (if any is available) for the
impact an Oracle repository will have on TSM if the repository will reside
ON the TSM server. One of our DBAs is telling us that RMAN requires a
central repository (which is comprised of 36 GBs of disk housing Oracle
binaries, oraarch, oradata, and DBA home directories) that should reside on
our AIX TSM server.

We have numerous issues (all of which we have voiced loudly) with this piece
of Oracle residing on our TSM server, but in absence of hard data stating
that this move is a disaster waiting to happen, we're powerless to stop its
going forward. The edict from management is: let the Oracle people have
their way.

Is anyone out there using the Oracle TDP with AIX (or other platforms) going
to an AIX TSM server where this RMAN repository physically resides on the
TSM server itself? Would you be willing to share your experiences, good or
bad, with us, to help us make a case for keeping this repository from
residing on the TSM server? Gut feeling and experience with the TSM
environment are not enough on which to base a final decision.

Thanks much!

Cindy Cannam

Cynthia L. (Cindy) Cannam, MBA
Enterprise Storage Management
TSM/ADSM Technical Support
SBC Services, Inc.
(314)340-0722 office
(888)476-0998 pager
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Re: Exchange tuning

[Del Hoobler]

Walt,

I won't get into details on performance tuning on this list
but I will tell you what some of our customers have seen.
We all know that performance tuning really is rocket science...
...and requires expert analysis.  :-)

We have customers consistently achieving rates greater than
30G per hour when backing up with TDP for Microsoft Exchange.

I do have some comments on your questions.

First TXNGROUPMAX will not make any difference.
TDP for Exchange sends up a maximum of 4 objects for any backup.
All objects for a backup are contained within one transaction.

Second, changing TXNBYTELIMIT won't help either since API applications
(like any of the TDP applications) are not bound to this limit by design.

As far as some of the client options to set...We, by default recommend:

   TCPBuffsize31
   TCPWindowsize  63

But these may not always be optimal for your environment.

As far as the "/buffers" option.  Our original testing showed that
"/buffers:3,1024" seemed to produce the best results...but again,
these may not always be optimal for your environment.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


"Fujikawa, Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/13/2000 09:34:04
PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:  Exchange tuning



09/05/2000 22:37:09 TcpFlush: Error 10054 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket
268.
09/05/2000 22:37:09 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'.
09/05/2000 22:37:09 TcpFlush: Error 10054 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket
268.

Getting these errors on my TDP 1.1.1 connect agent for MS Exchange 5.5,
Service Pack 2 on NT Server 4.0, Service Pack 4.  Tivoli Server is 3.7.3.6
on NT Server 4.0, Service Pack 6a.

Backup times seem slow.  18 mins to back up a 1.5gb info store.  Servers
are
on a CAT5000 switch with ports set at full duplex/100mb.  NICS are set to
full duplex/100mb.  Servers are on the same segment.

Will upping the TXNBYTELIMIT help?  Can setting too high corrupt your IS?

What about the:

TCPBUFFSIZE?
TCPWINDOWSIZE?
TXNGROUPMAX?  How does TDP determine commit points on a large Information
Store?
SELFTUNETXNSIZE?  Why is this turned off by default?


On the "excdsmc" command line I am going to experiment with /buffers:
parameter.  Has anyone out there messed with these settings with favorable
results.  The alternative is to call Consultline which I understand is
chargeable.  I may have to stay with Veritas instead of converting other
Exchange servers to Tivoli.


Walt Fujikawa
East Bay Water Systems Programming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: New TSM 4.1 client download

[Lou Heavenrich]

Eric,

I just downloaded the client 4.1.1 code and installed it this morning and
everything ran OK..  Try it again?

regards, Lou
  -
Lou D. Heavenrich;   Tivoli Data Protection Team
Global Application Delivery - North,  IBM Global Services

Re: expire inventory - question on number of objects examined

[Wu, Jie]

what if you marked a volume as detroyed? I mean if there are active files on
the volume, will the inventory expiration update the database so those
were-active files get picked up during the next backup?

Jie


> -Original Message-
> From: Thomas Denier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:19 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: expire inventory - question on number of objects
> examined
>
> > What does the number of objects examined during inventory expiration
> > include?
>
> ADSM differentiates between active and inactive backup files. A backup
> file is
> always active when it first arrives from a client. A backup file changes
> to
> inactive when the ADSM server finds out that the corresponding client file
> has
> been updated or deleted. An inactive backup file is retained until
> inventory
> expiration processing discovers that it no longer meets the retention
> criteria
> for its management class. Earlier postings to this list indicate that
> information about active and inactive backup files is stored in different
> parts of the ADSM database, with different trade-offs between compactness
> and
> fast access. As far as I can tell, inventory expiration does not look at
> the
> portion of the database used for active backup files. On our system, the
> number of objects examined by inventory expiration is in good agreement
> with
> estimates of the number of inactive backup files. I am not sure how
> archived
> and space-managed files fit into this scheme of things. We currently have
> no
> space-managed files, and very few archived files in comparison to the
> number
> of inactive backup files.

Re: New TSM 4.1 client download

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi *SM-ers!
My problem is solved! I downloaded the files with another (non-Microsoft)
FTP client and now it works! The filesize is exactly the same, so I still
don't know the cause, but never mind.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon

-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New TSM 4.1 client download


Hi *SM-ers!
I have downloaded the new TSM 4.1.1 Windows client. When I execute the exe
archive it issues the error: "The contents of this file cannot be unpacked.
The executable you are attempting to run had been corrupted. Please obtain
another copy of the file, verify its integrity, and try again."
I checked the file size, my file has exactly the same size as the one on the
FTP server.
Has anybody else been able to use this archive?
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon


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TSM NT Client

[Bill Sherrill]

I had written to this group  the other day about a problem that I was
having with backing up the registry through the services but could
successfully complete the backup manually.  I would like to thank everyone
that responded so quickly, you all gave me some great ideas for
investigating.  I was successful in getting the services to work by going
into services, startup. and assigning my id as the logon id for service
rights.

Thanks again,
Bill Sherrill
Analyst International Corporation

Re: ANS2604S - web client can't authenticate with server?

[Shekhar Dhotre]

same problem i have faced , 3 days ago, i was trying to copy some fils from one
node to another node ,
and options i was trying was fromnode  and virtual node. after addng entry as
virtual node , the
web client wont ask password also. (infact that login screen does not appear )
. even i am waiting for some outputs.
and trying the different options ,







"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 09/14/2000 03:50:36 AM
Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400
cc:

Subject: ANS2604S - web client can't authenticate with server?

We've just started using TSM within our organisation -  TSM 3.7 on Solaris
2.6.

Using default values for our Solaris clients we can run 'dsmcad' on each
machine and successfully use the web client for each node.

However, we'd like to use the web client also for *virtual* nodes.  How can
we do this?

If we set the 'virtualnodename' parameter in dsm.opt we can quite happily
run dsmc commands:

dsmc query session -password=XXX

and invoke dsmcad successfully but as soon as we try to use the
web client an error window pops up with the message:

ANS2604S The web client was unable to authenticate wtih the server

It doesn't even get to the user/password login stage.

Is there a way to use the web client on behalf of a virtual node?

Thanks,



Brad Rosser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is the TSM 3.7 client NETWARE certified???

[Brian Nick]

Hi Mark,

 Sorry I'm just replying but I have been out of the office. I know that
there are some issues with TSM 3.7 and Netware specifically backing up the
NDS tree. When backing up the NDS tree memory is used but not released
until the backup completes. If you do not have enough memory on the server
the backup will abend. As far as I know the data portion of the backup does
not have the same issue. We have been trying to get a fix from IBM on this
but they are telling us that we will have to wait until the next revision
of TSM and as TSM 4.1 is already available it would have to be a release
later than that. Hope this helps some feel free to contact me if you have
questions.

Brian L. Nick
System Programmer - Storage Solutions
Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins.
100 Bright Meadow Blvd
Enfield CT. 06082-1900

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Mark Brown
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Sent by: Subject: Is the TSM 3.7 client NETWARE
"ADSM: Dist  certified???
Stor Manager"
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09/12/2000
03:52 PM
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respond to
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"






Hello,

I've seen some conflicting web pages from Tivoli about whether or not
TSM client version 3.7 is NETWARE "YES" ready. Can you please provide me
with the information if it is or isn't. If possible I would like to see
the statment online somewhere.

--
Thank You,

Mark Brown

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Re: Backing up legacy systems / standard input?

[Richard Sims]

>Can I solve this problem without having to write my own utility in C and
>the API?
>
>Can Tivoli backup up the 'contents' of a named pipe?
>
>Is there any way I can use 'dsmc' to back up standard input?

Performing a backup on a named pipe simply records information about the pipe
so that it can be recreated in restoral.
The 'dsmc' command is rather inflexible, and cannot be used to back up from
standard input.  (A client developer with spare time could make points with
the customer base by allowing the dsmc client to accept the option '-' to
signify input from Stdin, as the tar command does, and an option like
'-ASSIGNNAME=' for a filespace object name.)
You'll probably have to take the API route to perform the backup.
You say you don't have enough disk space to make a disk image and then
back that up; but unless Pick uses some odd disk type, consider that
disks today are very cheap, and would cost far less than your time in
doing API work.  Alternately, is there any way to share the disk with
another system (NFS, etc.) such that it could be backed up from there?
   Richard Sims, BU

Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?

[paul baines]

Hi, if you use 3.7 then the SUMMARY table contains the IP address as well as
the node name.
Paul.


>From: "Taylor, Damon M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:26:33 -0500
>
>  There may be, but I don't know how,,, in the TSM 3.7 version the IP
>address
>shows up along with the node name in the log. You'll see it over and over
>again with every session started message. It may have showed up in the
>older
>versions and I just never noticed. Here's an example:
>
>16:29:26  ANR0406I Session 172131 started for node TDCITD03 (AIX)
>(Tcp/Ip 149.183.181.203(33529)).
>
> > --
> > From: Daniel Swan/TM[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 5:14 PM
> > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:  Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> >
> > Taylor, is there any way to tell server side what ADSM thinks is the IP
>of
> > a
> > node?
> >
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Taylor, Damon M [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:05 PM
> > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject:  Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> > >
> > >  When you start your scheduler the client contacts the Hostname
> > specified
> > > in
> > > the TCPServeraddress field in the dsm.opt/sys. The ADSM server
> > recognizes
> > > the node name which you specified in the NODEName field of the
> > dsm.opt/sys
> > > and stores the contacting IP address. ADSM then has an IP address to
> > > associate with the node name. That's how the server knows what IP
> > address
> > > to
> > > connect for the specified node...
> > >
> > > > --
> > > > From: Sean English[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:41 PM
> > > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject:  Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> > > >
> > > > Daniel,
> > > >
> > > > Do you have the TCPClientaddress set to the IP address of the client
> > > > server? This is located in the dsm.opt file (or dsm.sys) on the
>client
> > > > machine.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Sean M. English
> > > >   Distributed Support Services/ADSM
> > > >   IBM Global Services South, Charlotte, NC
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Daniel Swan/TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/13/2000
> > > > 04:28:38 PM
> > > >
> > > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > > Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > cc:
> > > > Subject:  How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a nodename, prodwf01, that backs up successfully each day.
> > > >
> > > > However, the hostname 'prodwf01' isn't resolved by either DNS, nor
> > does
> > > it
> > > > exist in the
> > > > host file.  The client scheduler is set to 'prompted'.
> > > >
> > > > How the heck is ADSM getting in touch with prodwf01?   How is the
> > > nodename
> > > > resolving to an IP?
> > > >
> >

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Re: TSM and RoadRunner version 5.3 for MPE/iX

[Geoff Pusey]

Eric,

I have some information for you from one of my old friends.
ROC software now owns MPE RoadRunner; but had to change the name back to
BackPack.
You can call ROC at  512 249 9294. Ramona Sublett (Ramona used to work for
Unison Software and Tivoli Systems) now works there. You can reach her via
email as well; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

But I still think there is no communication between TSM and BackPack. I
hope this helps Good luck.

Regards,

Geoff Pusey
Tivoli Advisory Consultant
Tivoli Systems.
Office   : +44 (0)1753 780881
Mobile : +44 (0) 780 8203704
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Eric SIMTEKPEATI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/12/2000 04:39:43 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Geoff Pusey/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  TSM and RoadRunner version 5.3 for MPE/iX




Hi @

Sorry to disturb you again .
I really need any kind of help for TSM with MPE/iX agent which run on
HP3000.
the module to enabled TSM to store MPE/iX has been developed by ROCSOFTWARE
and  is called ROADRUNNER 5.3 for MPE/iX.
Any information will be very helpful for me.

Hope I will get more chance this time.

Eric.

Hello everyone ,

Does anyone have information on TSM with MPE/iX agents.
I'm looking for references and any  details that can help me to setup this
configuration.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,

Eric Simtekpeati
Technical Support
Ares Global Services
3-9 ave de Norvege BP 390
91959  Courtaboeuf 1 cedex  France.
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New TSM 4.1 client download

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi *SM-ers!
I have downloaded the new TSM 4.1.1 Windows client. When I execute the exe
archive it issues the error: "The contents of this file cannot be unpacked.
The executable you are attempting to run had been corrupted. Please obtain
another copy of the file, verify its integrity, and try again."
I checked the file size, my file has exactly the same size as the one on the
FTP server.
Has anybody else been able to use this archive?
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon


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Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?

[paul baines]

Hi, this is based totally on my assumptions of how the stuff is stored in
TSM. It could be all BS.
You can look at the TSM tables(trees) with the SHOW NODE command. Use SHOW
OBJD to get the page numbers for the "Nodes" object and the
"Schedule.Node.Addresses". Use SHOW NODE and the number for "Nodes". Find
your node name here (The key) and its first data field. If you have more
than a handful of nodes you may have to follow the subtree using a further
SHOW NODE using the key value nearest and greater than your node name.
With the number corresponding to your node, go to the
Schedule.Node.Addresses table using SHOW NODE and find the key value that is
your node number. The second data field is the IP address.
Paul.

>From: "Taylor, Damon M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:26:33 -0500
>
>  There may be, but I don't know how,,, in the TSM 3.7 version the IP
>address
>shows up along with the node name in the log. You'll see it over and over
>again with every session started message. It may have showed up in the
>older
>versions and I just never noticed. Here's an example:
>
>16:29:26  ANR0406I Session 172131 started for node TDCITD03 (AIX)
>(Tcp/Ip 149.183.181.203(33529)).
>
> > --
> > From: Daniel Swan/TM[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 5:14 PM
> > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:  Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> >
> > Taylor, is there any way to tell server side what ADSM thinks is the IP
>of
> > a
> > node?
> >
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Taylor, Damon M [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:05 PM
> > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject:  Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> > >
> > >  When you start your scheduler the client contacts the Hostname
> > specified
> > > in
> > > the TCPServeraddress field in the dsm.opt/sys. The ADSM server
> > recognizes
> > > the node name which you specified in the NODEName field of the
> > dsm.opt/sys
> > > and stores the contacting IP address. ADSM then has an IP address to
> > > associate with the node name. That's how the server knows what IP
> > address
> > > to
> > > connect for the specified node...
> > >
> > > > --
> > > > From: Sean English[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:41 PM
> > > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject:  Re: How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> > > >
> > > > Daniel,
> > > >
> > > > Do you have the TCPClientaddress set to the IP address of the client
> > > > server? This is located in the dsm.opt file (or dsm.sys) on the
>client
> > > > machine.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Sean M. English
> > > >   Distributed Support Services/ADSM
> > > >   IBM Global Services South, Charlotte, NC
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Daniel Swan/TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/13/2000
> > > > 04:28:38 PM
> > > >
> > > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > > Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > cc:
> > > > Subject:  How does ADSM Map nodenames to IP's?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a nodename, prodwf01, that backs up successfully each day.
> > > >
> > > > However, the hostname 'prodwf01' isn't resolved by either DNS, nor
> > does
> > > it
> > > > exist in the
> > > > host file.  The client scheduler is set to 'prompted'.
> > > >
> > > > How the heck is ADSM getting in touch with prodwf01?   How is the
> > > nodename
> > > > resolving to an IP?
> > > >
> >

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ANS2604S - web client can't authenticate with server?

[Brad Rosser]

We've just started using TSM within our organisation -  TSM 3.7 on Solaris
2.6.

Using default values for our Solaris clients we can run 'dsmcad' on each 
machine and successfully use the web client for each node.

However, we'd like to use the web client also for *virtual* nodes.  How can
we do this?

If we set the 'virtualnodename' parameter in dsm.opt we can quite happily
run dsmc commands:
  
dsmc query session -password=XXX

and invoke dsmcad successfully but as soon as we try to use the
web client an error window pops up with the message:

ANS2604S The web client was unable to authenticate wtih the server

It doesn't even get to the user/password login stage.

Is there a way to use the web client on behalf of a virtual node?

Thanks,



Brad Rosser
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Backing up legacy systems / standard input?

[Brad Rosser]

Hi.  We've just started using TSM - version 3.7 on Solaris 2.6.

We have a legacy application which runs under an implementation of Pick
on top of Solaris.  Currently it's backed up to a tape drive but of late
the size of the backup has exceeded the capacity of the tape.

I gather that the backup uses some sort of Pick 'dump' command,
dumping directly to the tape device.  We don't have enough disk space
to dump to disk and then invoke Tivoli as a second step to back up the
disk image to the server.

How can I use TSM to back up this legacy system?

I guess it's the same problem that's solved by the Data Protection
products for each of their respective applications (Oracle, Exchange, etc).
Can I solve this problem without having to write my own utility in C and the
API?

Can Tivoli backup up the 'contents' of a named pipe?

Is there any way I can use 'dsmc' to back up standard input?  Usually in
this sort of situation I'd see if the Pick 'dump' command would accept a
Unix named pipe (FIFO) as its device argument, and then run a backup
command reading stdin from the pipe.

Many thanks,



Brad Rosser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]