Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize, everyone take note of this response

[Paul Ripke]

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:36 AM, Seay, Paul wrote:


As Zorg would say, I know the sound of this music.

The default maxperm is probably killing you.  I am guessing you are
swapping




I agree whole-heartedly! I'd go a step further, and knock maxperm down
to about 10%, or even less. Given the nature of TSM I/O, the AIX buffer
cache is going to be next to useless. It may then be possible to expand
the TSM bufpoolsize beyond recommendations... I've set mine to about
60-70% physical RAM, up from 30-40%. The speed of selects and "q actlog"
have increased by an order of magnitude. Definitely stay below the
level where the system starts to swap, and don't go too large... TSM
buffer cache management can then become a bottleneck. How big is too
large? No idea - it'd be very dependent on hardware - experiment and
see!

Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
Unix/OpenVMS/DBA
101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
-- Koos van den Hout

Re: tcp layer problem

[Paul Ripke]

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 05:59 AM, Richard Sims wrote:


There have been a lot of excellent suggestions on Steve's session-lost
problem.  The only thing I could add is to employ a utility like
traceroute or ping -R to illuminate what network elements your sessions
are going through...which can sometimes be surprising.

  Richard Sims, BU


I agree, although even that doesn't tell you everything. I don't know
how, but our NT guys managed to proxy a TSM backup through a web proxy.
The NT TSM client, and Sun TSM server were physically about 4 meters
apart, and separated by 1 router, both located in Wollongong, Australia.
I got a call from our network guys asking why the TSM server was
flogging the link to London... sure enough, the TSM backup sessions
were going via a web proxy in London!

Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
Unix/OpenVMS/DBA
101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
-- Koos van den Hout

Re: how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

[Lisa Cabanas]

Thank you to all replied on- and off-list.

For inquiring minds that want to know. the management class hadn't been
validated and activated (TSM 101).

D-oh!


-lisa

Re: Windows 2000 System State

[Andrew Raibeck]

Joni,

TSM captures the Windows 2000 system state via the "SYSTEMOBJECT" domain
(it is part of the ALL-LOCAL domain). So if you run "dsmc backup
systemobject" or just do a regular incremental backup of the ALL-LOCAL
domain, you will capture the system state. This information is stored in
the "SYSTEM OBJECT" file space on the TSM server.

A redbook you should look into with more detailed information about this
is SG24-6141 - "Deploying the Tivoli Storage Manager Client in a Windows
2000 Environment". You can find this at www.redbooks.ibm.com.

You'll probably hear this from others, but there are some caveats involved
with backing up the system object. The major consideration is the system
files, which are always backed up regardless of whether they have changed.
Backing up a lot of Windows machines' system files every night can have a
profound impact on your TSM server's database and storage pool growth.
Some things to consider:

- Bind the system object files to a management class that keeps relatively
few versions. You can do this with the following include statement:

   INCLUDE.SYSTEMOBJECT ALL yourmgmtclassname

- Consider backing up the system object on a less frequent basis than your
other backups (i.e. weekly), unless the system state changes quite
frequently. With the latest TSM client, you can exclude file systems via
the DOMAIN statement by prefixing the file system with a '-' (minus) sign.
For example:

   DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL -SYSTEMOBJECT

This will set the domain to all local drives except for the system object.
Then your daily backup schedule can back up everything but the system
object. Once a week (or whatever frequency you choose), run another
scheduled event to execute the "dsmc backup systemobject". One way to do
this (since there is no ACTION=BACKUP setting on the server) is to create
a TSM client macro file that contains the command:

   BACKUP SYSTEMOBJECT

For example, if this file is C:\TSM\baclient\sysobj.mac then you can
create a schedule like this:

   DEFINE SCHEDULE STANDARD BACKSYSOBJ ACTION=MACRO
OBJECTS="C:\TSM\baclient\sysobj.mac"

I'm sure others will have thoughts/suggestions on this subject, too.   :-)

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
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Hello,

I am responsible for the administrative side of TSM and I am not very
familiar with the client side.  Does anyone know the answer to the
following question?

Can you tell me if TSM gets the System State on Windows 2000 Servers. The
system state is comprised of the following:
COMM+ Class Registration Database
Registry
System Files.

We would need the system state if we needed to restore a server or repair
a
damaged server.
If it does can you tell me how to identify the system state in the TSM
backups.

Thanks!!!

Joni Moyer
Systems Programmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(717)975-8338

Windows 2000 System State

[Joni Moyer]

Hello,

I am responsible for the administrative side of TSM and I am not very
familiar with the client side.  Does anyone know the answer to the
following question?

Can you tell me if TSM gets the System State on Windows 2000 Servers. The
system state is comprised of the following:
COMM+ Class Registration Database
Registry
System Files.

We would need the system state if we needed to restore a server or repair a
damaged server.
If it does can you tell me how to identify the system state in the TSM
backups.

Thanks!!!

Joni Moyer
Systems Programmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(717)975-8338

Re: Time on TSM Server

[Marsh, David]

That's how we get the time correct after a server reset. It's ok until the
next time I have to reset the server, then we have to do it again. If we
don't catch it our schedules are off.

Thanks Justin

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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Time on TSM Server


tsm> accept date

this server command will do it then to confirm from tsm type in:

tsm> show time

--Justin Richard Bleistein
Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing)
Desk: (856) 866 - 4017
Cell:(856) 912 - 0861
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Hello All,

I have TSM 5.1.5 running on an HP-UX 11 server. It is my understanding that
TSM picks up it's time from the server. Whenever we have to reboot the
sever
for maintenance, the time on TSM jumps (2) hours ahead, but the time on
UNIX
is still correct. Does anyone know of any time zone settings or locality
settings with TSM ?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Re: Canceling a Script?

[Ford, Phillip]

I can tell you what we do.  I make a script that is a place holder like
process_x_ok.  In my main script at each point that I may want to stop I
check to see if there is a script call process_x_stop (see below).  If yes,
then rename the script to process_x_ok and stop.  If no then continue.  This
has worked great for us.  Thus to stop the script I issue the command
"rename script process_x_ok process_x_stop".

select * from script_names were name='PROCESS_X_STOP'
if(rc_ok) goto stop
.
.
.
.
exit
stop:
rename script process_x_stop process_x_ok



Hope this helps


--
Phillip Ford
Senior Software Specialist
Corporate Computer Center
Schering-Plough Corp.
(901) 320-4462
(901) 320-4856 FAX
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From: Nancy R. Brizuela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Canceling a Script?


All,

Is there any way to cancel a TSM script once it has started?  I have a daily
maintenance script that runs several processes, one after the other.  I
often find it necessary to stop the script for one reason or another.  I
have had to let the script keep running and cancel the processes one at a
time as they are initiated by the script.  Please tell me there is a better
way to do this...

Thanks,

Nancy Brizuela
University of Wyoming
IBM Systems Group
Ivinson Room 238
(307)766-2958




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Re: how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

[Zlatko Krastev]

what is the output of "q v stg=archive f=d"?

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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Hello *,

I am at a loss how to determine why a client is not going to disk for an
archive.

The archived data is going to the correct management class.

The management class specifies that the archive copy group points to the
ARCHIVE storage pool destination

Policy Domain Name COMPAQ01
Policy Set Name COMPAQ01
Mgmt Class Name ARAN_DATA
Copy Group Name STANDARD
Retain Version 1825
Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC
Copy Destination ARCHIVE
Last Update Date/Time 2002-12-05 11:38:48.00
Last Update by (administrator) CABANL

and the storage pool does not have a max size threshold

Storage Pool Name ARCHIVE
Storage Pool Type PRIMARY
Device Class Name DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB) 180579.0
Pct Util 0.0
Pct Migr 0.0
Pct Logical 100.0
High Mig Pct 80
Low Mig Pct 40
Migration Processes 1
Next Storage Pool ARCHIVETAPE
Maximum Size Threshold -
Access READWRITE
Description -
Overflow Location -
Cache Migrated Files? NO
Collocate -
Reclamation Threshold -



But every time I try to do an archive, it (even for 20KB files) mounts a
tape to write to.

tsm: TSM_HQ_2>q se 15138 f=d

  Sess Number: 15,138
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 17 S
   Bytes Sent: 345
  Bytes Recvd: 583
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: WinNT
  Client Name: GHSMARAN01
  Media Access Status: Waiting for mount of output volume 820516 (17
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 01/17/2003 11:01:00AM





WHY? What have I missed?

thanks, lisa

Re: how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

[Andrew Raibeck]

Hi Lisa,

I'm not certain why this is happening, but here are some thoughts (I know,
some of these are probably silly...):

- You showed the copy group from the COMPAQ01 policy set, but not
STANDARD. Do they match (i.e. did you make any policy set changes that
need to be activated)?

- Are all the volumes in the disk storage pool online and set for
read/write access?

- You say that the data is being bound to the correct management class;
have you actually confirmed this by querying the archived data?

- Are there any messages on the server indicating a problem with the
storage pool?

- Are you sure this node is in the COMPAQ01 policy domain and not in
another domain with a like-named management class that goes to tape?

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply)

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Hello *,

I am at a loss how to determine why a client is not going to disk for an
archive.

The archived data is going to the correct management class.

The management class specifies that the archive copy group points to the
ARCHIVE storage pool destination

Policy Domain Name COMPAQ01
Policy Set Name COMPAQ01
Mgmt Class Name ARAN_DATA
Copy Group Name STANDARD
Retain Version 1825
Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC
Copy Destination ARCHIVE
Last Update Date/Time 2002-12-05 11:38:48.00
Last Update by (administrator) CABANL

and the storage pool does not have a max size threshold

Storage Pool Name ARCHIVE
Storage Pool Type PRIMARY
Device Class Name DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB) 180579.0
Pct Util 0.0
Pct Migr 0.0
Pct Logical 100.0
High Mig Pct 80
Low Mig Pct 40
Migration Processes 1
Next Storage Pool ARCHIVETAPE
Maximum Size Threshold -
Access READWRITE
Description -
Overflow Location -
Cache Migrated Files? NO
Collocate -
Reclamation Threshold -



But every time I try to do an archive, it (even for 20KB files) mounts a
tape to write to.

tsm: TSM_HQ_2>q se 15138 f=d

  Sess Number: 15,138
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 17 S
   Bytes Sent: 345
  Bytes Recvd: 583
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: WinNT
  Client Name: GHSMARAN01
  Media Access Status: Waiting for mount of output volume 820516 (17
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 01/17/2003 11:01:00AM





WHY? What have I missed?

thanks, lisa

Re: tcp layer problem

[Richard Sims]

There have been a lot of excellent suggestions on Steve's session-lost
problem.  The only thing I could add is to employ a utility like
traceroute or ping -R to illuminate what network elements your sessions
are going through...which can sometimes be surprising.

  Richard Sims, BU

how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

[Lisa Cabanas]

Hello *,

I am at a loss how to determine why a client is not going to disk for an
archive.

The archived data is going to the correct management class.

The management class specifies that the archive copy group points to the
ARCHIVE storage pool destination

Policy Domain Name COMPAQ01
Policy Set Name COMPAQ01
Mgmt Class Name ARAN_DATA
Copy Group Name STANDARD
Retain Version 1825
Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC
Copy Destination ARCHIVE
Last Update Date/Time 2002-12-05 11:38:48.00
Last Update by (administrator) CABANL

and the storage pool does not have a max size threshold

Storage Pool Name ARCHIVE
Storage Pool Type PRIMARY
Device Class Name DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB) 180579.0
Pct Util 0.0
Pct Migr 0.0
Pct Logical 100.0
High Mig Pct 80
Low Mig Pct 40
Migration Processes 1
Next Storage Pool ARCHIVETAPE
Maximum Size Threshold -
Access READWRITE
Description -
Overflow Location -
Cache Migrated Files? NO
Collocate -
Reclamation Threshold -



But every time I try to do an archive, it (even for 20KB files) mounts a
tape to write to.

tsm: TSM_HQ_2>q se 15138 f=d

  Sess Number: 15,138
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 17 S
   Bytes Sent: 345
  Bytes Recvd: 583
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: WinNT
  Client Name: GHSMARAN01
  Media Access Status: Waiting for mount of output volume 820516 (17
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 01/17/2003 11:01:00AM





WHY? What have I missed?

thanks, lisa

Re: Time on TSM Server

[Justin Bleistein]

tsm> accept date

this server command will do it then to confirm from tsm type in:

tsm> show time

--Justin Richard Bleistein
Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing)
Desk: (856) 866 - 4017
Cell:(856) 912 - 0861
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Hello All,

I have TSM 5.1.5 running on an HP-UX 11 server. It is my understanding that
TSM picks up it's time from the server. Whenever we have to reboot the
sever
for maintenance, the time on TSM jumps (2) hours ahead, but the time on
UNIX
is still correct. Does anyone know of any time zone settings or locality
settings with TSM ?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Time on TSM Server

[Marsh, David]

Hello All,

I have TSM 5.1.5 running on an HP-UX 11 server. It is my understanding that
TSM picks up it's time from the server. Whenever we have to reboot the sever
for maintenance, the time on TSM jumps (2) hours ahead, but the time on UNIX
is still correct. Does anyone know of any time zone settings or locality
settings with TSM ?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Canceling a Script?

[Nancy R. Brizuela]

All,

Is there any way to cancel a TSM script once it has started?  I have a
daily maintenance script that runs several processes, one after the
other.  I often find it necessary to stop the script for one reason or
another.  I have had to let the script keep running and cancel the
processes one at a time as they are initiated by the script.  Please
tell me there is a better way to do this...

Thanks,

Nancy Brizuela
University of Wyoming
IBM Systems Group
Ivinson Room 238
(307)766-2958

Re: volume won't mount

[David Longo]

Most likely there is a physical problem with this volume.
Do a "q vol xx f=d" and see if there are any errors on it.
If this problem happened within your actlogretention,
then query actlog back that many days and search for
volname and see if there was an error with it.

Physically examine cartridge.  Slide open the little door
and see if the leader pin is in normal position as another
cartridge.  If not, you may be able to gently nudge it
back in place and then try mounting.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/17/03 11:55AM >>>
I have a volume that won't mount in my library.  TSM seems to think that it knows the 
volume as q vol, q libvol, and show slots all return the same information about the 
volume, with it in our 3584 library.  The volume is ReadOnly and not in an error 
state.  However, when I try to restore data from the volume, it will not mount and I 
get the error:  

01/16/2003 12:02:20  ANR8304E Time out error on drive GENDRV_TAPE3 (\\.\TAPE3) in 
library LB0.1.0.2.
01/16/2003 12:02:46  ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume XX - mount failed.

Does anyone know why this would not be able to mount, despite TSM appearing to have 
the volume in the library?  Why is this request denied?  

Thanks!
Peter

Peter Ford
System Engineer


Stentor, Inc.
 5000 Marina Blvd, 
 Brisbane, CA 94005-1811  
 Main Phone: 650-228-
 Fax: 650 228-5566 
 http://www.stentor.com 
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Re: tcp layer problem

[Andrew Raibeck]

Hi Wanda,

Good suggestion re: firewalls   :-)

About the use of FTP: while a failure in FTP would lend support to the
suggestion that this is a network problem, it is a *very* common mistake
to assume that a successful test with FTP exonerates the network. I have
worked on many dozens of these kinds of problems, and it is my experience
that in almost every instance, FTP works just fine; yet ultimately the
problem *is* somewhere in the network.

This doesn't mean that the problem *can't* lie in TSM; but statistically
speaking, the odds are very much against it. This is why I usually
recommend using a sniffer and other network diagnostic tools to see what
is happening at the network layer (especially since the connection is
being broken by the network).

One other thing that is sometimes worth trying, especially if the dsm.opt
and dsm.sys files are heavily customized, is to use a very stripped down
options file. Just use the minimal items necessary to establish a
connection with the server: COMMMETHOD, TCPSERVERADDRESS, TCPPORT,
NODENAME, and PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE (if GENERATE is used, which is
usually the case). Don't specify *any* tuning parameters. Then see if the
problem still occurs.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply)

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The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




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If by chance this client is backing up through a firewall, check the
timeout
parms on the firewall.  TSM client tends to send data in spurts, because a
lot of time is spent noodling around in directories looking for things to
back up.   Many times we have seen a firewall causing this behavior where
it
closes the session, then the client restarts the session, firewall closes
the session , cleint restarts the session, etc.  Will eventually finish,
slowly.  You have to increase the timeout values on the firewall so it
will
allow the session to idle for for a while without closing it.

If that's not it, my best tool for diagnosing network errors is a plain
FTP.
Take a sizeable file and FTP it to the TSM server several times.  If that
also has problems, it should convince your network people that the problem
is somewhere in your network...

-Original Message-
From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tcp layer problem


ive been going round and round with tsm support on this issue... we have
an
AIX 4.3.3 client that has been upgraded several times all the way to 5.1.5
client version without success backing up to an AIX 4.3.3 tsm 4.2.2 server
over a 10/100 ethernet network (100 Full Duplex, no autonegotiate.)

there arent any network errors and the switches are all configured
correctly, and the tsm server is fine. they are beginning to insist our
problem is system/network level...

error:

ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure.

appears almost constantly during backups. usually it will EVENTUALLY
finish
with a few errors but take forever to run. all our parameters appear to be
okay by tsm support standards. with the combonation of the server message
saying session was terminated they say the client is severing the
connection... that tsm is getting the message from a lower layer.

we dont have any network errors appearing anywhere else on the system for
any other applications, there are no errors in errpt or /var/adm/messages
and diags come back fine.

what else can i do to diagnose this problem?

ANS1028S on backup or archive of file >64GB

[Zlatko Krastev]

Hello all,

at a customer site backup or archive of a file fails. I think this is
related to size of the file (70,840,910,336 bytes).
Environment:
TSM server 5.1.1.6 / AIX 4.3.3
TSM client 5.1.5.0 / Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Upgrade to client 5.1.5.7 nor downgrade to 4.2.3.4 did not help.
Is any of you successfully backing up/archiving any file larger than 64 GB
on Windows? I have open PMR with support.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant

volume won't mount

[Peter Ford]

I have a volume that won't mount in my library.  TSM seems to think that it knows the 
volume as q vol, q libvol, and show slots all return the same information about the 
volume, with it in our 3584 library.  The volume is ReadOnly and not in an error 
state.  However, when I try to restore data from the volume, it will not mount and I 
get the error:  

01/16/2003 12:02:20  ANR8304E Time out error on drive GENDRV_TAPE3 (\\.\TAPE3) in 
library LB0.1.0.2.
01/16/2003 12:02:46  ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume XX - mount failed.

Does anyone know why this would not be able to mount, despite TSM appearing to have 
the volume in the library?  Why is this request denied?  

Thanks!
Peter

Peter Ford
System Engineer


Stentor, Inc.
 5000 Marina Blvd, 
 Brisbane, CA 94005-1811  
 Main Phone: 650-228-
 Fax: 650 228-5566 
 http://www.stentor.com
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: tcp layer problem

[Prather, Wanda]

If by chance this client is backing up through a firewall, check the timeout
parms on the firewall.  TSM client tends to send data in spurts, because a
lot of time is spent noodling around in directories looking for things to
back up.   Many times we have seen a firewall causing this behavior where it
closes the session, then the client restarts the session, firewall closes
the session , cleint restarts the session, etc.  Will eventually finish,
slowly.  You have to increase the timeout values on the firewall so it will
allow the session to idle for for a while without closing it.

If that's not it, my best tool for diagnosing network errors is a plain FTP.
Take a sizeable file and FTP it to the TSM server several times.  If that
also has problems, it should convince your network people that the problem
is somewhere in your network...

-Original Message-
From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tcp layer problem


ive been going round and round with tsm support on this issue... we have an
AIX 4.3.3 client that has been upgraded several times all the way to 5.1.5
client version without success backing up to an AIX 4.3.3 tsm 4.2.2 server
over a 10/100 ethernet network (100 Full Duplex, no autonegotiate.)

there arent any network errors and the switches are all configured
correctly, and the tsm server is fine. they are beginning to insist our
problem is system/network level...

error:

ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure.

appears almost constantly during backups. usually it will EVENTUALLY finish
with a few errors but take forever to run. all our parameters appear to be
okay by tsm support standards. with the combonation of the server message
saying session was terminated they say the client is severing the
connection... that tsm is getting the message from a lower layer.

we dont have any network errors appearing anywhere else on the system for
any other applications, there are no errors in errpt or /var/adm/messages
and diags come back fine.

what else can i do to diagnose this problem?

Re: Missed Backup

[Jim Kirkman]

Geoff

I think, but I could be wrong, that if you use dsmcad to handle the scheduler
service that a restart is no longer required after changes.

"Cook, Dwight E" wrote:

> It is a "double check" type situation...
> A schedule won't run unless the client node has had at least ONE opportunity
> to see that it is going to occur.
> Say schedmode is prompted and your q sched period is 24 (and for example,
> happens at 12:00 noon-ish)
> OK, if I were a ~bad admin~ I might try to schedule an event to run on a
> client that would run a command
> rm -R *
> not a pretty sight !
> So that client node's admin checks his log at 13:00, sees things are
> normal...
> I sneak in and put my schedule on the TSM server at 14:00 to run at 15:00...
>
> see the problem !
>
> Now to correct the situation of a node not picking up a schedule, just
> bounce the scheduler ONCE the alterations to schedules has taken place.
> First thing the client scheduler does upon starting is to ask the server
> ~what is going on, when...~
> at that time the server will respond with the currently scheduled tasks
> (which will include your recent alterations) and thus things will be OK...
>
> *** JUST ANOTHER WAY TSM PROTECTS THINGS A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN OTHER
> PRODUCTS *
>
> but I know I'm preaching to the choir
>
> Dwight E. Cook
> Software Application Engineer III
> Science Applications International Corporation
> 509 S. Boston Ave.  Suite 220
> Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606
> Office (918) 732-7109
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:10 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Missed Backup
>
> TSM Server AIX 4.3.3
> TSM Server Software 5.1.5.2
>
> Why is it that anytime a client is removed from a schedule and added to a
> different one the backup is missed? This always happens from my
> recollection. No matter what the server version I have been it's happened.
> The only way I've seen around this is to stop and start the scheduler on the
> client after the client has been assigned to the new schedule.
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (877) 905-7154

--
Jim Kirkman
AIS - Systems
UNC-Chapel Hill
966-5884

TSM performance problems

[Joni Moyer]

Hi again!

I have 2 questions.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

1.  This morning I came in and I couldn't log on to the GUI.   I went out
and we were in tape drive allocation and there were several processes
waiting for tape mounts.  (I was seeing this in the logs through JES - my
companies TSM is on the mainframe version 4.1.3)  I couldn't enter commands
and it seemed that things were still running, but I was able to logon and
the clients were also just sitting out there.  They would start a session,
but it never came back.  About 1.5 hours after I noticed this had started,
all of a sudden the session began ending  and I could then logon to the GUI
and look at the logs.  The only thing I could see was that tape drive
allocation problem.  Does anyone know what may have happened?

2.  And on my other TSM server, I have the log maxed out at 4.6 GB.  I used
to only run one full DB backed each day (48 GB database which takes 3
hours) and now I am running about 7 incrementals in between the full to
keep the log from filling up and causing a major disaster.  We changed the
BUFPOOLSIZE parameter from 32768 to 65536.  We also changed the SELFTUNEBUF
pool size to yes and the SELFTUNETXNsize to yes.  I looked into the idea of
a client "pinning" down the log and I haven't come up with anything from
that side.  Does anyone have any suggestions or know of a TSM tuning guide
that might be helpful?

Thanks again!!!

Joni Moyer
Systems Programmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(717)975-8338

Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize, everyone take note of this response

[Seay, Paul]

As Zorg would say, I know the sound of this music.

The default maxperm is probably killing you.  I am guessing you are swapping
more than you are running and your swap drives are I/O hot, a iostat will
tell you, or topas.  This value dictates the amount of storage that can be
consumed by (non-computational).  The default is 80 percent.  There was a
long discussion about this on the list about 3 months ago.  The way you
change maxperm is with vmtune.  My system is a 2GB system.  I have maxperm
set to 40.  When it lists the value it gives you the answer in K, not
percent at the top and in percent at the bottom.  This is how our vmtune is
setup.  This does not survive a boot, so after we were comfortable with it,
we put it in inittab.

Our buffpoolsize is 327680.

/usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -p10 -P40
/usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -F376
/usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -R256

These changes resulted in the following:
vmtune:  current values:
  -p  -P  -r -R-f
-F  -N-W
minperm  maxperm  minpgahead maxpgahead  minfree  maxfree  pd_npages
maxrandwrt
  52424209699   2 256 120  376
5242880

   -M  -w-k -c  -b -B
-u-l  -d
maxpin npswarn npskill numclust numfsbufs hd_pbuf_cnt lvm_bufcnt lrubucket
defps
419400   245766144   1   93  464  9
131072 1

-s -n -S-L
-g-h
sync_release_ilock  nokilluid  v_pinshm  lgpg_regions  lgpg_size
strict_maxperm
0   0  0 0
00

number of valid memory pages = 524249   maxperm=40.0% of real memory
maximum pinable=80.0% of real memoryminperm=10.0% of real memory
number of file memory pages = 396986numperm=75.7% of real memory

The other two changes for minfree and maxpgahead MUST be done in order.
What these do is significantly improve storage pool migration and database
backup speed if your disk are fast.  We have ESS, it really makes a
difference.

I subscribe to the general concensus.  Set maxperm and minperm really low on
a machine that acts only as a TSM server.

Let me put it in simple terms, you should see a 3 order of magnitude
improvement.  The system will probably run better than it ever has.  If I
remember correctly, our system performancd broke when we took the
buffpoolsize over about 96000.


Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sizing of Bufpoolsize


Hi *SM fellows,

I'm running TSM 4.2.3.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 system (IBM 6h0) with 2 GB ram, the
db size is 21 GB, 75 % used, the logpool size is 12 GB. Since 3 weeks (when
we upgraded from 4.2.1.15), I get massive performance degradation : expire
inventory takes ages (approx 20 hours) to go through 9 million objects, and
cache hit ratio is between 94 and 96 %. I tried to increase my bufpoolsize
from 151 MB to 400 in several 100 GB steps without seeing any improvement,
and the system  is now heavily paging.
Could you please share your bufpoolsize settings with me, if working in the
same kind of environment, or give me some advice for tuning the server ?
Thanks in advance !

Arnaud

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Re: Missed Backup

[Miller, Ryan]

What is your QUERYSCHEDPERIOD option set to on your clients?  The default is 12 hours, 
which means the client only checks twice a day to see what it's next scheduled event 
is.  So lets take the following scenario...  
A client was scheduled for a 10:00 pm backup.  It last checked with the server at 
11:00 am, so it will not check again before it is scheduled to backup.  You change the 
association from the 10:00 pm schedule to a 8:00 pm schedule.  The client is not aware 
of this change unless you stop/start the scheduler so it will query the server and 
pick this up.  So when 10:00 pm come along, the client connects to the server, and 
then it finds out that it is no longer associated with the 10:00 pm schedule, so it 
will not backup, it queries to see what the next event is, and in this case, that 
would be 8:00 pm then next day.

Had you changed the schedule to a later time, say 11:30 pm, it would indeed pick up 
the change and backup that night.  But you may not always make the change to a later 
time.

We set all of our clients to query every 2 hours, this way most changes will get 
picked up.  You can go this by changing it in each OPT file on each client, or you can 
use CLIENT OPTIONSET on the server to send this out to all clients, but of course you 
will need to touch each node to do this also

If you need more on this, let me know.

Ryan Miller
 
Principal Financial Group
 
Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1
 

-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Missed Backup


TSM Server AIX 4.3.3
TSM Server Software 5.1.5.2

Why is it that anytime a client is removed from a schedule and added to a
different one the backup is missed? This always happens from my
recollection. No matter what the server version I have been it's happened.
The only way I've seen around this is to stop and start the scheduler on the
client after the client has been assigned to the new schedule.
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize

[Rafael Mendez]

Hi Arnaud,
Take a look on "TSM performance Tuning Guide".
On that manual, you could find the following:
"Recommendations for AIX, HP, Sun, NT, OS/2 Servers
System Memory (MB)  Recommended BuffPoolSize(MB)  RBufferPoolSize (KB)
   32   22048
   48  3 3072
   64  4 4096
   96  9 9216
 1281414336
 1602020480
 2563232768
 51264 65536
   1024   128   131072
   2048   256   262144

Hope this helps,
Rafael

-- Mensaje original --
to: PAC Brion Arnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc:
date: 1/17/2003 10:04:32 AM
subject: Sizing  of Bufpoolsize



> Hi *SM fellows,

>

> I'm running TSM 4.2.3.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 system (IBM 6h0) with 2 GB ram, the db size 
>is 21 GB, 75 % used, the logpool size is 12 GB. Since 3 weeks (when we upgraded from 
>4.2.1.15), I get massive performance degradation : expire inventory takes ages 
>(approx 20 hours) to go through 9 million objects, and cache hit ratio is between 94 
>and 96 %. I tried to increase my bufpoolsize from 151 MB to 400 in several 100 GB 
>steps without seeing any improvement, and the system  is now heavily paging.

> Could you please share your bufpoolsize settings with me, if working in the same 
>kind of environment, or give me some advice for tuning the server ?

> Thanks in advance !

>

> Arnaud

>

> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

> | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group |

> | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland |

> | Phone:  41 61 226 19 78 / Fax:  41 61 226 17 01   |

> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Re: Very Puzzling Sessions lost

[Andrew Raibeck]

If you are getting errno=32, then that means EPIPE ("broken pipe"). This
means that you are almost certainly dealing with some kind of network
problem. Note that by "network", I am referring to any/all the software
and hardware that sits between the TSM client and TSM server software:
operating systems, network drivers, network adapters, cables, routers,
etc. These are among the most frustrating kinds of problems to diagnose
because hunting down the root cause is usually a challenge.

Suggestions to consider:

- If the problem is happening only with a single machine, try swapping the
network card with that of a different machine. Does the problem move with
the network adapter? How about the network cable?

- Put a sniffer (or similar device) on the client machine and trace the
network traffic. That should show you what is happening at the IP layer;
you're network folks should be able to analyze this data.

- Check with AIX support to see how they can help. I don't work on AIX,
but I suspect there is some kind of tool for analyzing TCP/IP traffic on
the machine. Also, they can look for any known TCP/IP issues at the OS
level.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




"Conko, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
01/17/2003 07:42
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Very Puzzling Sessions lost



We have some very strange session lost errors showing up on our client.
First the particulars:

Server is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V4.2.2
Client is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V5.1.5.5 (upgraded several times from
V4.2.2
at TSM Support request to deal with this problem)

Client and server are on separate 100 Mb full duplex subnets.

There are other AIX 4.3.3 ML 10 clients on the same subnet as the failing
client that do not get any errors. network option (no) settings are the
same
on both clients. dsm options have been modified on the failing client to
reflect those on the successful client in troubleshooting to ensure
differing options are not causing a problem.

The client having the problem will start a backup (incremental or archive,
scheduled or manual) and suddenly "freeze" for several minutes before
severing the socket connection and will proceed to reconnect/timeout
almost
continuously. Sometimes it appears to stop in the same spot, other times
not. There doesnt appear to be any reason why certain files would cause a
problem (i.e., they are not open at the time).

Any idea what i can check? I have tried everything... all sorts of
settings
in dsm.sys and no settings. There are not any errors reported on the
system
itself. just "session lost" on the client and "session terminated" on the
server. Ive been working with IBM TSM Support for quite sometime and they
just keep wanting more traces and "upgrade to the latest client."

Im at my wits end.

Re: Missed Backup

[Cook, Dwight E]

It is a "double check" type situation...
A schedule won't run unless the client node has had at least ONE opportunity
to see that it is going to occur.
Say schedmode is prompted and your q sched period is 24 (and for example,
happens at 12:00 noon-ish)
OK, if I were a ~bad admin~ I might try to schedule an event to run on a
client that would run a command
rm -R *
not a pretty sight !
So that client node's admin checks his log at 13:00, sees things are
normal...
I sneak in and put my schedule on the TSM server at 14:00 to run at 15:00...

see the problem !

Now to correct the situation of a node not picking up a schedule, just
bounce the scheduler ONCE the alterations to schedules has taken place.
First thing the client scheduler does upon starting is to ask the server
~what is going on, when...~
at that time the server will respond with the currently scheduled tasks
(which will include your recent alterations) and thus things will be OK...

*** JUST ANOTHER WAY TSM PROTECTS THINGS A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN OTHER
PRODUCTS *

but I know I'm preaching to the choir

Dwight E. Cook
Software Application Engineer III
Science Applications International Corporation
509 S. Boston Ave.  Suite 220
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606
Office (918) 732-7109



-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Missed Backup


TSM Server AIX 4.3.3
TSM Server Software 5.1.5.2

Why is it that anytime a client is removed from a schedule and added to a
different one the backup is missed? This always happens from my
recollection. No matter what the server version I have been it's happened.
The only way I've seen around this is to stop and start the scheduler on the
client after the client has been assigned to the new schedule.
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: Missed Backup

[Christian Svensson]

   
   
   


Hi Gill!
If you runing polling I can understand why you got this problem.
Becuse the client is ask for his Scheduler every 12h. (Standard)
What you can do is change it to 1h. Then he take your changes after a
houre.
And he automaticly takes your changeing when you have done it.

But if you runing Prompted. Then I don´t understand why. Becuse the server
is puching out the command to the client.
And the Client have no idea which domain / scheduler he is in to.

I hope you understan. If not.
I try to have better English. ;-)

Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards
Christian Svensson

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  "Gill, Geoffrey  
  L."cc: 
  Sent by: "ADSM:  Subject:  Missed Backup 
  Dist Stor
  Manager"  
   
   
  2003-01-17 16:09 
  Please respond to
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  Manager" 
   
   




TSM Server AIX 4.3.3
TSM Server Software 5.1.5.2

Why is it that anytime a client is removed from a schedule and added to a
different one the backup is missed? This always happens from my
recollection. No matter what the server version I have been it's happened.
The only way I've seen around this is to stop and start the scheduler on
the
client after the client has been assigned to the new schedule.
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154



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Re: Missed Backup

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi Geoff!
You probably are using the scheduler in polling mode. Use prompted mode
instead.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 16:10
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Missed Backup


TSM Server AIX 4.3.3
TSM Server Software 5.1.5.2

Why is it that anytime a client is removed from a schedule and added to a
different one the backup is missed? This always happens from my
recollection. No matter what the server version I have been it's happened.
The only way I've seen around this is to stop and start the scheduler on the
client after the client has been assigned to the new schedule.
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154


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Missed Backup

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

TSM Server AIX 4.3.3
TSM Server Software 5.1.5.2

Why is it that anytime a client is removed from a schedule and added to a
different one the backup is missed? This always happens from my
recollection. No matter what the server version I have been it's happened.
The only way I've seen around this is to stop and start the scheduler on the
client after the client has been assigned to the new schedule.
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Sizing of Bufpoolsize

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi *SM fellows,

I'm running TSM 4.2.3.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 system (IBM 6h0) with 2 GB ram, the db size is 
21 GB, 75 % used, the logpool size is 12 GB. Since 3 weeks (when we upgraded from 
4.2.1.15), I get massive performance degradation : expire inventory takes ages (approx 
20 hours) to go through 9 million objects, and cache hit ratio is between 94 and 96 %. 
I tried to increase my bufpoolsize from 151 MB to 400 in several 100 GB steps without 
seeing any improvement, and the system  is now heavily paging. 
Could you please share your bufpoolsize settings with me, if working in the same kind 
of environment, or give me some advice for tuning the server ?
Thanks in advance !

Arnaud

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
| Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group |
| Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland |
| Phone: +41 61 226 19 78 / Fax: +41 61 226 17 01   | 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Very Puzzling Sessions lost

[Conko, Steven]

ive tried both ways... to disk and to tape. during the day and at night.
manually and scheduled. high load and no load. its always the same.

-Original Message-
From: George Hagopian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Very Puzzling Sessions lost


I've had a similar problem...might be of some help

I had a server that would never finish and almost always fail at a certain
point, it would tell me session terminated by user...no other
explanation...if I run the backups maually it would almost always
finish...but that was also during the day and not at the scheduled backup
time...

What I did, was increase the number of drives that the server would use
during the backup...originally it was one tape drive and increased it to two
tapes drives...problem disappeared and not reoccurred...not sure if you are
writing directly to tape or to a disk pool.

My 2 cents
ghag

-Original Message-
From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Very Puzzling Sessions lost


We have some very strange session lost errors showing up on our client.
First the particulars:

Server is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V4.2.2
Client is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V5.1.5.5 (upgraded several times from V4.2.2
at TSM Support request to deal with this problem)

Client and server are on separate 100 Mb full duplex subnets.

There are other AIX 4.3.3 ML 10 clients on the same subnet as the failing
client that do not get any errors. network option (no) settings are the same
on both clients. dsm options have been modified on the failing client to
reflect those on the successful client in troubleshooting to ensure
differing options are not causing a problem.

The client having the problem will start a backup (incremental or archive,
scheduled or manual) and suddenly "freeze" for several minutes before
severing the socket connection and will proceed to reconnect/timeout almost
continuously. Sometimes it appears to stop in the same spot, other times
not. There doesnt appear to be any reason why certain files would cause a
problem (i.e., they are not open at the time).

Any idea what i can check? I have tried everything... all sorts of settings
in dsm.sys and no settings. There are not any errors reported on the system
itself. just "session lost" on the client and "session terminated" on the
server. Ive been working with IBM TSM Support for quite sometime and they
just keep wanting more traces and "upgrade to the latest client."

Im at my wits end.

Re: Very Puzzling Sessions lost

[George Hagopian]

I've had a similar problem...might be of some help

I had a server that would never finish and almost always fail at a certain
point, it would tell me session terminated by user...no other
explanation...if I run the backups maually it would almost always
finish...but that was also during the day and not at the scheduled backup
time...

What I did, was increase the number of drives that the server would use
during the backup...originally it was one tape drive and increased it to two
tapes drives...problem disappeared and not reoccurred...not sure if you are
writing directly to tape or to a disk pool.

My 2 cents
ghag

-Original Message-
From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Very Puzzling Sessions lost


We have some very strange session lost errors showing up on our client.
First the particulars:

Server is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V4.2.2
Client is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V5.1.5.5 (upgraded several times from V4.2.2
at TSM Support request to deal with this problem)

Client and server are on separate 100 Mb full duplex subnets.

There are other AIX 4.3.3 ML 10 clients on the same subnet as the failing
client that do not get any errors. network option (no) settings are the same
on both clients. dsm options have been modified on the failing client to
reflect those on the successful client in troubleshooting to ensure
differing options are not causing a problem.

The client having the problem will start a backup (incremental or archive,
scheduled or manual) and suddenly "freeze" for several minutes before
severing the socket connection and will proceed to reconnect/timeout almost
continuously. Sometimes it appears to stop in the same spot, other times
not. There doesnt appear to be any reason why certain files would cause a
problem (i.e., they are not open at the time).

Any idea what i can check? I have tried everything... all sorts of settings
in dsm.sys and no settings. There are not any errors reported on the system
itself. just "session lost" on the client and "session terminated" on the
server. Ive been working with IBM TSM Support for quite sometime and they
just keep wanting more traces and "upgrade to the latest client."

Im at my wits end.

Re: Quick expiration question

[Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)]

So is there no way to keep a nodes data (both active and inactive) from
expiring??



-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quick expiration question


Files that do not have an active version do not get rebound if you set them
to a new policy domain management class.  In fact, we have had to create
dummy files and run a backup with a special management class to get this
kind of data to rebind.

I really want a command that I can say rebind to a management class anything
with a specific mask  and date and lock the rebound entries from a client
rebind so that specific backup objects can be managed when business
exceptions come up after the fact.  The traditional full/incremental backup,
you would just change the retention of the tapes.  With what I am suggesting
you get exactly what you want, only the items changed and controlled under
adminstrator management.  Level of authority would be Policy Domain.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quick expiration question


In light of this, what would be the best way to protect a node's data from
expiring at all??  To keep from both active and inactive versions expiring??
If we rename the node and filespace, would the time based retention rules
eventually get the data?? Or since the new (renamed) node name never has a
backup, we are ok.  Perhaps moving the node to a policy domain with
unlimited retention is the only way to protect both active and inactive
files??


Just trying to understand this more


Regards,

Matt Adams
Tivoli Storage Manager Team
Hermitage Site Tech
Deloitte and Touche USA LLP



-Original Message-
From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quick expiration question


>Just a quickie. When an inremental backup runs, some files get expired.
>Does this mean that they are 'marked' for expiration, but only get
>deleted from the database when the Expire Inventory job is run?

File expiration candidates processing based upon versions (number of same
file) is performed during client Backups (in contrast to time-based
retention rules, which are processed during a later, separate Expiration).

  Richard Sims, BU
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Re: Error during "delete volhistory"

[Paul Ripke]

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:18 PM, Raghu S wrote:

Hi

There is no


del volhist type=backupset command


See other posts - it's undocumented, but does exist.


use >del backupset   command to delete backup
sets.You can use preview option also.


Sorry, backupset expired, I believe. It just didn't remove the volume
entries from the volhistory table. I tried re-defining the backupset,
but couldn't as the tapes were in use.

Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
Unix/OpenVMS/DBA
101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
-- Koos van den Hout

Re: Error during "delete volhistory"

[Paul Ripke]

On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:30 AM, Mark Stapleton wrote:

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:18, Raghu S wrote:

There is no


del volhist type=backupset command


While type=backupset is not listed as an option, it does work. It is a
holdover from version 4.1 days. There was a bug in the 4.2 days that
prevented some backupsets from being deleted with the DEL BACKUPSET
command; you could delete them with

del volh type=backupset volume= todate=

which is also undocumented, I believe.


That's correct. I've used it in the past to delete single-volume
backupsets successfully. In this case, it fails with the error in
my original post. I figure I'll have to raise this with Tivoli
directly.

Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
Unix/OpenVMS/DBA
101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
-- Koos van den Hout

Very Puzzling Sessions lost

[Conko, Steven]

We have some very strange session lost errors showing up on our client.
First the particulars:

Server is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V4.2.2
Client is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V5.1.5.5 (upgraded several times from V4.2.2
at TSM Support request to deal with this problem)

Client and server are on separate 100 Mb full duplex subnets.

There are other AIX 4.3.3 ML 10 clients on the same subnet as the failing
client that do not get any errors. network option (no) settings are the same
on both clients. dsm options have been modified on the failing client to
reflect those on the successful client in troubleshooting to ensure
differing options are not causing a problem.

The client having the problem will start a backup (incremental or archive,
scheduled or manual) and suddenly "freeze" for several minutes before
severing the socket connection and will proceed to reconnect/timeout almost
continuously. Sometimes it appears to stop in the same spot, other times
not. There doesnt appear to be any reason why certain files would cause a
problem (i.e., they are not open at the time).

Any idea what i can check? I have tried everything... all sorts of settings
in dsm.sys and no settings. There are not any errors reported on the system
itself. just "session lost" on the client and "session terminated" on the
server. Ive been working with IBM TSM Support for quite sometime and they
just keep wanting more traces and "upgrade to the latest client."

Im at my wits end.

Re: WINNT 4.0 SP5 PDC wasn't backing up the software hive in the registry

[Lisa Cabanas]

Sal--
yes, the hard drive had died, so last known good wasn't an option, no I
couldn't restore it back to a bootable state AT ALL because the software
registry key did not exist anymore (and I had no way of recreating it), and
the drive wasn't mirrored. (bad, bad, bad)

What we did end up doing was rebuilding from scratch, promoted a BDC to
PDC, replicated, demoted and promoted.  The users didn't see a problem (it
died after COB and was restored before anyone needed to print (it was where
all the print queues where, too))  --it was just a long night for us.

My question is WHY weren't there any inactive software keys available from
TSM???  That's what I can't figure out.

-lisa



Sal Mangiapane
 cc:
Sent by: Subject: Re: WINNT 4.0 SP5 PDC wasn't 
backing up the software hive in
"ADSM: Dist   the registry
Stor Manager"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IST.EDU>


01/16/2003
08:11 PM
Please respond
to salm





Sounds like it may have been a hardware (disk) drive failure where the
registry is found.

Maybe the registry hive was not available.  This would also explain why it
wouldn't reboot.


Does the PDC even get to the 'last good menu' option?  If so, try it.

Can you restore from the 1/10 backups?

Other things to consider:

Are the disk drives mirrored?  If yes, maybe you could try booting from the
other drive by updating boot.ini

Do you have a BDC?  Promote it to PDC and recreate this server from scratch
as a BDC and restore from TSM.


Thanks and God bless,

sal

Sal Mangiapane

Servant Technology, Inc
RR 1 Box 435
FOMBELL, PA 16123

Office: 724-758-3981
Mobile: 724-263-6569
FAX:724-752-7372
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Lisa Cabanas
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: WINNT 4.0 SP5 PDC wasn't backing up the software hive in the
> registry
>
>
> Good morning, all,
>
> I am trying to figure this one out, and I need help (it was a long
night).
> Last night one of our PDC bit the dust, and I was attempting to rebuild
the
> client on identical hardware (and dissimilar hardware, too).
>
> It didn't work (it's always worked before).  What I determined to be the
> problem was that there were NO software registry hives backed up for that
> client at all.  The rest of them were there, and it was like it should be
> (1 active and 4 inactive versions).  I have an AIX 4.3.3 ML10 with
4.2.1.9
> server code and the client code was at 4.2.1.20.
>
> The PDC's last successful backup was on 1/10 and stopped backing up 1/11,
> due to
>
> ANS4036E An error occurred saving the registry key.
>
> ANS1512E Scheduled event 'NT_2230' failed.  Return code = 4.
>
>
> It did this 1/11 thru yesterday, when our OPS staff notified me that
there
> was a problem.  After it would return the error code, it would set up for
> the next night's backup.  Unfortunately, there were major network
problems
> over the weekend, and they were told they didn't need to weed out the
> "real" errors/failures from the ones that were caused by connectivity, so
> this didn't get caught until yesterday.) When I got on to the server,
there
> were messages about the password in the registry (which I thought was the
> problem with the registry), so I did a dsmcutil updatepw, and stopped and
> restarted the scheduler.
>
> I tried to force a back up, and then got this error msg:
>
> 01/15/2003 12:47:21PM ANS4023E Error processing '\\d5n01\c$': file
> input/output error
>
> And I asked if the server could be rebooted- and it never came back up.
>
> Why was the reg key gone?  There should have been *at least* inactive
> copies, if the registry error registered with TSM as a "deletion" (3 vers
> if deleted).
>
> Any body have any ideas what when wrong?  I know I don't, and I need to
be
> able to explain my failure restoring the PDC with TSM (I have done bare
> metals before, but my boss doesn't particularly care for me, and this
> failure is a real opportunity for him-- no body cares about the backups,
> they just care about the restores-- and when it works it is unremarkable,
> but when it doesn't it's almost catastrophic).
>
> any help would be appreciated!!
>
> -lisa
>

Re: database reorganisation

[Cook, Dwight E]

If you want to remove a DB volume because you aren't using that much space
based on the Pct. Util., 
but you can't because the max reduction isn't large enough.

Be it good or bad, I can't say but we've had 10 TSM servers (most are going
on 7 years old now) and the only place I've ever unloaded & loaded the TSM
data base has been in our test environment... just to see what goes on...
 (our TSM db's are between 8 GB & 32 GB's)

Dwight 



-Original Message-
From: Francois Chevallier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: database reorganisation


What are the best criteria to know if it's time to reorganize the tsm
database (by unloaddb /loaddbb)
Sincerly

François Chevallier
Parc Club du Moulin à Vent
33 av G Levy
69200 - Vénissieux - France
tél : 04 37 90 40 56

Exclude.dir question

[Jim Kirkman]

> I'm trying to ensure I don't get redundant backups of folders as our
> server group migrates data to a new environment. They want to add .old
> extensions to folders on the 'old' boxes. I was thinking of the
> following:

exclude.dir  "*:\*.old

this is in two different Netware environments.

whaddya think?


--
Jim Kirkman
AIS - Systems
UNC-Chapel Hill
966-5884

Re: AIX, TSM, IP Routing...

[Cook, Dwight E]

Daniel,
this is all just ~network routing~.
We have, for example, an AIX 4.3.3 ML09~ish (I don't know if any maint. has
gone on lately) with 3 NIC's (2-100Mb & 1-Gb).
They are each on a different subnet.
~default~ routing takes subnet traffic out the interface attached to that
subnet and uses the "default gateway" for subnet traffic not on any subnet
attached directly to a/the server.
a.b.129.x traffic will go out an a.b.129.z subnet interface
a.b.55.x traffic will go out an a.b.55.z subnet interface
a.b.12.x traffic will go out an a.b.12.z subnet interface

Now, I would guess you probably don't have a whole bunch of different
subnets within your organization (or at least served by your tsm server) so
you may set up routes on your tsm server like...
Say you have 6 subnets with 3 being as mentioned above and the other 3 being
a.b.C, a.b.D, & a.b.E
So all traffic on the same subnets as your tsm server are OK already
Now just put subnet routes on your tsm server to direct traffic as required.
(I believe this would be the proper syntax)
if a.b.C nodes have best route out the a.b.129.z interface issue
route -v -net a.b.C  a.b.129.z
if a.b.D nodes have the best route out the a.b.55.z interface issue
route -v -net a.b.D a.b.55.z
and if a.b.E nodes have the best route out the a.b.12.z interface, issue
route -v -net a.b.E a.b.12.z

hope this helps...

Dwight



-Original Message-
From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:


Hi

This is perhaps more of a communication question rather than a storage
management question, but I will still ask, considering some of you out
there should have encountered this problem.

One of our customers have a P-Series 610 running AIX ML 4.3.3.09. It's
equipped with 2 100Mbs Ethernet adapters and one GB adapter. Previously,
they all were located on the same subnet. Now, we've move the GB adapter
into a separate subnet.

The configuraiton looks like this:

1st 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.1/24 default gateway 192.168.1.254
2nd 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.2/24
1st Gigabit Ethernet = 192.168.5.1/24

This has become a problem. Everytime a client connects to the TSM server,
it responds from the adapter which have the default gateway set. The
customer is running spanning tree, which means that it wont allow the TSM
server to receive data on one adapter, and respond from another. However, I
haven't found a way to have the TSM server respond from the same adapter on
which the client connected. In my opinion, this can only be solved in to
ways; either having a default gateway for each adapter, or, setting some
kind of option, telling the TSM server to awalys respond on the same
adapter on which it received the data.

BUT, the first alternative doesnt work. AIX 4.3.3.09, in contrary to 5L,
wont let me set multiple default gateways, specifying one for each adapter.
In AIX 5L, I have the option, when setting static routes, of binding the
static route to a specific adapter. When trying to add a second default
gateway on AIX 4.3.3.09, it only tells me that there is already a default
gateway.

The second alternative, however, seems theoretically impossible. The AIX
server shouldnt be able to respond to a client, connection from a different
subnet, from the adapter on which it received the initial client session.
This is because the adapter dont have a default gateway, and therefore
shouldn't be able to find it's way to the client, located on a different
subnet.

This problem still existed when we had all adapters running on the same IP
subnet. The GB adapter could recieve data initiated from the clients, but
the respones always went through the first 100Mbs ethernet adapter, which
had the default gateway.

Is there anybody out there running an AIX server with multiple adapters,
which have multiple subnets, and has been able to have the AIX respond to
the client on the same adapter on which the client initially started the IP
session?

Perhaps I'm not a communication expert, but to me, this seems like a fairly
simple problem.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman
---
Daniel Sparrman
Exist i Stockholm AB
Propellervdgen 6B
183 62 HDGERNDS
 Vdxel: 08 - 754 98 00
Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51

RES: AIX With 3 Network Adapters (Was: No Subject)

[Paul van Dongen]

Daniel, 

  Since it's not possible to have multiple default gateways, you could
probably define explicit routes to each of your subnets using the
appropriate ip address/gateway for each of the adapters


-- 
Paul Gondim van Dongen
Engenheiro de Sistemas
MCSE
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage Manager
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
Fone: 55 81 3225-0353


-Mensagem original-
De: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Enviada em: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:29
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: 


Hi

Thanks for the respone.

Yes, all clients are located in different subnets. Some of the clients are
connected through the same IP subnet, but most of them are on different
subnets.

Running only the GB adapter wont be enough. There is approx. 150 TSM
clients, and they are located on 6 different subnets.

The problem is that if we use the default gateway on the GB adapter(or any
other adapter), the switch will flood. This is because the switch is using
"Spanning Tree". What it reallys means is, that if a client connects to the
TSM server on one of the two 100Mbs ethernet adapters, and the TSM server
responds on the GB adapter(which have the default gateway), the Cisco switch
wont like it, as it keeps track of the mac-address within the packet. When
the TSM server responds, it will respond with the mac-address of the GB
adapter, instead of the original mac-address from the 100Mbs Ethernet
adapter. This causes the switch to get schizofrenic, as it sends one packet
to one mac-address, but recieves a respone from another mac-address...

This is solved in AIX 5L, which have the possibility to have multiple
default gateways bound to different network interfaces. This means that if
you have three adapters, you can have 3 different default gateways, one for
each adapter.

The question was if somebody has been able to solve this on a lower level of
AIX, such as ML 4.3.3.09.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman


---
Daniel Sparrman
Exist i Stockholm AB
Propellervägen 6B
183 62 HÄGERNÄS
 Växel: 08 - 754 98 00
Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51

[no subject]

[Daniel Sparrman]

Hi

Thanks for the respone.

Yes, all clients are located in different subnets. Some of the clients are
connected through the same IP subnet, but most of them are on different
subnets.

Running only the GB adapter wont be enough. There is approx. 150 TSM
clients, and they are located on 6 different subnets.

The problem is that if we use the default gateway on the GB adapter(or any
other adapter), the switch will flood. This is because the switch is using
"Spanning Tree". What it reallys means is, that if a client connects to the
TSM server on one of the two 100Mbs ethernet adapters, and the TSM server
responds on the GB adapter(which have the default gateway), the Cisco
switch wont like it, as it keeps track of the mac-address within the
packet. When the TSM server responds, it will respond with the mac-address
of the GB adapter, instead of the original mac-address from the 100Mbs
Ethernet adapter. This causes the switch to get schizofrenic, as it sends
one packet to one mac-address, but recieves a respone from another
mac-address...

This is solved in AIX 5L, which have the possibility to have multiple
default gateways bound to different network interfaces. This means that if
you have three adapters, you can have 3 different default gateways, one for
each adapter.

The question was if somebody has been able to solve this on a lower level
of AIX, such as ML 4.3.3.09.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman


---
Daniel Sparrman
Exist i Stockholm AB
Propellervägen 6B
183 62 HÄGERNÄS
 Växel: 08 - 754 98 00
Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51

Re: Oracle scheduler fails if started in background

[Lawrie Scott - Persetel Q Vector]

Not sure But the response of Completed comes from the fact that the script
is completed. I get a completed status from my TDP's as long as the script
completes, even if no tablespaces were backed up.

Lawrie

-Original Message-
From: Kolbeinn Josepsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 January 2003 01:21
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Oracle scheduler fails if started in background


Hi everyone,

We have strange behavior on TDP Oracle backup (TSM scheduled), we installed
exactly same configuration on another Solaris box where the scheduled
backup (in backround) completed sucessfully, as far as I know the only
difference is Solaris version 8.

All comments are welcome.

TSM Server 5.1.5.2 on W2K platform
TSM BA Client 5.1.5.0 and TDPO 5.1.5 on Solaris 2.6

 If we start the scheduler in foreground, the backup completes whithout
error. We use this command:
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc sched -se=tsm1_sched

If we start the scheduler in background, the backup fails, but Q EVENTS
says Completed, RMAN dos not start (no records in the RMAN Log). We use the
"at" command to start the scheduler in background:

at now
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc sched -se=tsm1_sched
"ctrl-D"

Following are records from actlog, schedlog and  q events, when backup
fails (shedule started in background). Also the dsm.sys file.

actlog:

  08-01-2003 04:20:00 for node E450_ORA completed
  successfully at 08-01-2003 04:58:51.
08-01-2003 04:58:51  ANR0403I Session 1401 ended for node E450_ORA (SUN

dsmsched.log:

Executing scheduled command now.
01/08/03   04:58:39 Node Name: E450_ORA
01/08/03   04:58:39 Session established with server TSM1: Windows
01/08/03   04:58:39   Server Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.2
01/08/03   04:58:39   Server date/time: 01/08/03   04:58:51  Last access:
01/08/03   03:27:51

01/08/03   04:58:39
Executing Operating System command or script:
   /u01/app/oracle/local/bin/hotrman.sh
01/08/03   04:58:39 Finished command.  Return code is: 1
01/08/03   04:58:39 ANS1909E The scheduled command failed.
01/08/03   04:58:39 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAYLY_ORA' failed.  Return
code = 1.
01/08/03   04:58:39 Sending results for scheduled event 'DAYLY_ORA'.
01/08/03   04:58:39 Results sent to server for scheduled event 'DAYLY_ORA'.

q event:

08-01-2003 04:20:00  08-01-2003 04:58:51  DAYLY_ORA
E450_ORA  Completed

dsm.sys:

SERVERNAME  tsm1_ba
   nodename   e450
   commmethod TCPIP
   tcpport1500
   tcpserveraddress   tsm1.zzz.is
   tcpbuffsize32
   tcpnodelay yes
   tcpwindowsize  1023
   largecommbuffers   yes
   schedlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ba/dsmsched.log
   schedlogretention  10,d
   errorlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ba/dsmerror.log
   errorlogretention  10,d
   passwordaccess generate

SERVERNAME  tsm1_ora
   nodename   e450_ora
   commmethod TCPIP
   tcpport1500
   tcpserveraddress   tsm1.zzz.is
   tcpbuffsize32
   tcpnodelay yes
   tcpwindowsize  1023
   largecommbuffers   yes
   schedlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmsched.log
   schedlogretention  10,d
   errorlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmerror.log
   errorlogretention  10,d
   passwordaccess prompt

SERVERNAME  tsm1_sched
   nodename   e450_ora
   commmethod TCPIP
   tcpport1500
   tcpserveraddress   tsm1.zzz.is
   tcpbuffsize32
   tcpnodelay yes
   tcpwindowsize  1023
   largecommbuffers   yes
   schedlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmsched.log
   schedlogretention  10,d
   errorlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmerror.log
   errorlogretention  10,d
   passwordaccess generate

Best regards,
Kolbeinn Josepsson 7 Systems Engineer
www.nyherji.is

Oracle scheduler fails if started in background

[Kolbeinn Josepsson]

Hi everyone,

We have strange behavior on TDP Oracle backup (TSM scheduled), we installed
exactly same configuration on another Solaris box where the scheduled
backup (in backround) completed sucessfully, as far as I know the only
difference is Solaris version 8.

All comments are welcome.

TSM Server 5.1.5.2 on W2K platform
TSM BA Client 5.1.5.0 and TDPO 5.1.5 on Solaris 2.6

 If we start the scheduler in foreground, the backup completes whithout
error. We use this command:
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc sched -se=tsm1_sched

If we start the scheduler in background, the backup fails, but Q EVENTS
says Completed, RMAN dos not start (no records in the RMAN Log). We use the
"at" command to start the scheduler in background:

at now
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc sched -se=tsm1_sched
"ctrl-D"

Following are records from actlog, schedlog and  q events, when backup
fails (shedule started in background). Also the dsm.sys file.

actlog:

  08-01-2003 04:20:00 for node E450_ORA completed
  successfully at 08-01-2003 04:58:51.
08-01-2003 04:58:51  ANR0403I Session 1401 ended for node E450_ORA (SUN

dsmsched.log:

Executing scheduled command now.
01/08/03   04:58:39 Node Name: E450_ORA
01/08/03   04:58:39 Session established with server TSM1: Windows
01/08/03   04:58:39   Server Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.2
01/08/03   04:58:39   Server date/time: 01/08/03   04:58:51  Last access:
01/08/03   03:27:51

01/08/03   04:58:39
Executing Operating System command or script:
   /u01/app/oracle/local/bin/hotrman.sh
01/08/03   04:58:39 Finished command.  Return code is: 1
01/08/03   04:58:39 ANS1909E The scheduled command failed.
01/08/03   04:58:39 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAYLY_ORA' failed.  Return
code = 1.
01/08/03   04:58:39 Sending results for scheduled event 'DAYLY_ORA'.
01/08/03   04:58:39 Results sent to server for scheduled event 'DAYLY_ORA'.

q event:

08-01-2003 04:20:00  08-01-2003 04:58:51  DAYLY_ORA
E450_ORA  Completed

dsm.sys:

SERVERNAME  tsm1_ba
   nodename   e450
   commmethod TCPIP
   tcpport1500
   tcpserveraddress   tsm1.zzz.is
   tcpbuffsize32
   tcpnodelay yes
   tcpwindowsize  1023
   largecommbuffers   yes
   schedlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ba/dsmsched.log
   schedlogretention  10,d
   errorlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ba/dsmerror.log
   errorlogretention  10,d
   passwordaccess generate

SERVERNAME  tsm1_ora
   nodename   e450_ora
   commmethod TCPIP
   tcpport1500
   tcpserveraddress   tsm1.zzz.is
   tcpbuffsize32
   tcpnodelay yes
   tcpwindowsize  1023
   largecommbuffers   yes
   schedlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmsched.log
   schedlogretention  10,d
   errorlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmerror.log
   errorlogretention  10,d
   passwordaccess prompt

SERVERNAME  tsm1_sched
   nodename   e450_ora
   commmethod TCPIP
   tcpport1500
   tcpserveraddress   tsm1.zzz.is
   tcpbuffsize32
   tcpnodelay yes
   tcpwindowsize  1023
   largecommbuffers   yes
   schedlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmsched.log
   schedlogretention  10,d
   errorlogname   /var/log/tivoli/ora/dsmerror.log
   errorlogretention  10,d
   passwordaccess generate

Best regards,
Kolbeinn Josepsson 7 Systems Engineer
www.nyherji.is

Re: database reorganisation

[Henrik Wahlstedt]

I´m not 100% sure,
but If maxium reduction size is less than (assigned capacity of your db -
substrakt (assigned capacity of your db * multiplied with pct. utilized)).
It would indicate that you have some 'empty' space in your db.

Or after  you have deleted large filespaces/nodes.

I look forward to read all answers if I´m completly wrong :-)

//Henrik




   
  
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What are the best criteria to know if it's time to reorganize the tsm
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Sincerly

François Chevallier
Parc Club du Moulin à Vent
33 av G Levy
69200 - Vénissieux - France
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Re: AIX connections, multiple adapters

[Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC]

Daniel,

will you please send me

- ip address of the client
- output of "netstat -rn", "netstat -in", "ifconfig -a".

I have a colleague here who should be able to send you the needed routes,

yours,

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-Original Message-
From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday 17 January 2003 07:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 


Hi

This is perhaps more of a communication question rather than a storage
management question, but I will still ask, considering some of you out
there should have encountered this problem.

One of our customers have a P-Series 610 running AIX ML 4.3.3.09. It's
equipped with 2 100Mbs Ethernet adapters and one GB adapter. Previously,
they all were located on the same subnet. Now, we've move the GB adapter
into a separate subnet.

The configuraiton looks like this:

1st 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.1/24 default gateway 192.168.1.254
2nd 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.2/24
1st Gigabit Ethernet = 192.168.5.1/24

This has become a problem. Everytime a client connects to the TSM server,
it responds from the adapter which have the default gateway set. The
customer is running spanning tree, which means that it wont allow the TSM
server to receive data on one adapter, and respond from another. However, I
haven't found a way to have the TSM server respond from the same adapter on
which the client connected. In my opinion, this can only be solved in to
ways; either having a default gateway for each adapter, or, setting some
kind of option, telling the TSM server to awalys respond on the same
adapter on which it received the data.

BUT, the first alternative doesnt work. AIX 4.3.3.09, in contrary to 5L,
wont let me set multiple default gateways, specifying one for each adapter.
In AIX 5L, I have the option, when setting static routes, of binding the
static route to a specific adapter. When trying to add a second default
gateway on AIX 4.3.3.09, it only tells me that there is already a default
gateway.

The second alternative, however, seems theoretically impossible. The AIX
server shouldnt be able to respond to a client, connection from a different
subnet, from the adapter on which it received the initial client session.
This is because the adapter dont have a default gateway, and therefore
shouldn't be able to find it's way to the client, located on a different
subnet.

This problem still existed when we had all adapters running on the same IP
subnet. The GB adapter could recieve data initiated from the clients, but
the respones always went through the first 100Mbs ethernet adapter, which
had the default gateway.

Is there anybody out there running an AIX server with multiple adapters,
which have multiple subnets, and has been able to have the AIX respond to
the client on the same adapter on which the client initially started the IP
session?

Perhaps I'm not a communication expert, but to me, this seems like a fairly
simple problem.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman
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Exist i Stockholm AB
Propellervägen 6B
183 62 HÄGERNÄS
 Växel: 08 - 754 98 00
Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51

Statistical data LANFREE

[Markus Veit]

Hi,
has anyone got any statistical info on how many GB/hour a LANFREE setup can
backup / restore with multiple mount points available to the storageagent.
It would be highly appreciated if you clould give me a short summary of your
setup, because we use different SAN technologies, such as Compaq, EMC, and would
like to implement LANFREE backup for these systems. The TSM servers run on 2
different platforms AIX and W2k.
Another question would be if anyone uses a LANFREE backup / restore solution
where 2 TSM servers are involved each sharing each others Library for copypool
backup?
Please only real figuers, which are actually observed in real life, no
theoretical numbers.
Thanks for your time.

Best Regards

Markus Veit

database reorganisation

[Francois Chevallier]

What are the best criteria to know if it's time to reorganize the tsm
database (by unloaddb /loaddbb)
Sincerly

François Chevallier
Parc Club du Moulin à Vent
33 av G Levy
69200 - Vénissieux - France
tél : 04 37 90 40 56

[no subject]

[Rodney clark]

Not really sure but you can force traffic via 1 interface by adding a
interface route.
Are the clients in a local subnet or are they behind the router ?
If behind the router why not simply use the gigabit adapter ? and remove the
10/100 adapters

-Original Message-
From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday 17 January 2003 07:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 


Hi

This is perhaps more of a communication question rather than a storage
management question, but I will still ask, considering some of you out
there should have encountered this problem.

One of our customers have a P-Series 610 running AIX ML 4.3.3.09. It's
equipped with 2 100Mbs Ethernet adapters and one GB adapter. Previously,
they all were located on the same subnet. Now, we've move the GB adapter
into a separate subnet.

The configuraiton looks like this:

1st 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.1/24 default gateway 192.168.1.254
2nd 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.2/24
1st Gigabit Ethernet = 192.168.5.1/24

This has become a problem. Everytime a client connects to the TSM server,
it responds from the adapter which have the default gateway set. The
customer is running spanning tree, which means that it wont allow the TSM
server to receive data on one adapter, and respond from another. However, I
haven't found a way to have the TSM server respond from the same adapter on
which the client connected. In my opinion, this can only be solved in to
ways; either having a default gateway for each adapter, or, setting some
kind of option, telling the TSM server to awalys respond on the same
adapter on which it received the data.

BUT, the first alternative doesnt work. AIX 4.3.3.09, in contrary to 5L,
wont let me set multiple default gateways, specifying one for each adapter.
In AIX 5L, I have the option, when setting static routes, of binding the
static route to a specific adapter. When trying to add a second default
gateway on AIX 4.3.3.09, it only tells me that there is already a default
gateway.

The second alternative, however, seems theoretically impossible. The AIX
server shouldnt be able to respond to a client, connection from a different
subnet, from the adapter on which it received the initial client session.
This is because the adapter dont have a default gateway, and therefore
shouldn't be able to find it's way to the client, located on a different
subnet.

This problem still existed when we had all adapters running on the same IP
subnet. The GB adapter could recieve data initiated from the clients, but
the respones always went through the first 100Mbs ethernet adapter, which
had the default gateway.

Is there anybody out there running an AIX server with multiple adapters,
which have multiple subnets, and has been able to have the AIX respond to
the client on the same adapter on which the client initially started the IP
session?

Perhaps I'm not a communication expert, but to me, this seems like a fairly
simple problem.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman
---
Daniel Sparrman
Exist i Stockholm AB
Propellervägen 6B
183 62 HÄGERNÄS
 Växel: 08 - 754 98 00
Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51