TSM Journal Messages

[Magura, Curtis]

Client 5.1.1
Win NT4 SP6

Server 5.1.1.4
AIX 4.3.3 ML10

We are working through the error messages we are getting from the Journal
service one at a time. Can't seem to find any information on this message at
all. Anyone have a link to anything that would give more information on
exactly what this means or for that matter any of the errors logged in this
file. This is from the jbberror.log log on the client.

12/16/2002 09:57:45 NpWrite: Error 232 writing to named pipe --> (There
are probably more than a hundred of there in the log).
12/16/2002 09:57:45 NpOpen: Named pipe error connecting to server INVALID
HANDLE.
NpOpen: call failed with return code:2 pipe name \\.\pipe\jnl265
12/16/2002 09:57:47 JbbMonitorThread(): DB Access thread, tid 148 ended with
return code -190.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203

Re: Journal errors

[Magura, Curtis]

.frustration on:

Can't help you Gill but I feel your pain. Working through very similar
issues with the Journal feature. We have 5-6 clients that are in the 5
million file range and constantly a problem for us. While it's easy for some
to say just split up the workload on to two or more clients, others don't
look favorably on the cost of additional hardware and labor to run yet
another server. Certainly I don't understand all of the underlying
complexities to make the Journal do what it does but it just appears that
the Journal service doesn't deliver very well at what you think would be the
prime candidates... Large numbers of objects will very few of them changing
on a daily basis. In our case it's around 25-30K changed per day per client.


We run with drives sized at around 55 GB and as a result have 20+ drives on
each server. We have never been able to Journal more than 10 drives at a
time and then, as you are finding, we have issues with the 10 that are
Journaled. Service stops, or we can't stop it, shows not running in the
Services panel but when you try to start it says it is already running.
and on and on.

Clients are 5.1.1. See the same thing on both Win2k Sp2, Sp3 and NT4 Sp6.

.frustration off:

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Journal errors


I'm still trying to get journaling to work on this node. With almost 5
million files now it's getting to the point of rediculous if you ask me.
Below are some errors that are in the jbberror.log and I was wondering if
anyone can help decipher them for me. What settings might I change in the
ini file that would help.

Sure I'll call support again, but it's been painfully obvious to me that
testing on this option does not compare to my real world situation.

12/15/2002 09:52:26 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Notification buffer overrun
for monitored FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:26 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Reallocating 0x0780
byte notification buffer.

12/15/2002 09:52:27 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Journal DB will be
restarted for FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:29 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Notification buffer overrun
for monitored FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:29 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Reallocating 0x0900
byte notification buffer.

12/15/2002 09:52:29 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Journal DB will be
restarted for FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:32 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Notification buffer overrun
for monitored FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:32 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Reallocating 0x0acc
byte notification buffer.

12/15/2002 09:52:33 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Journal DB will be
restarted for FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:38 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Notification buffer overrun
for monitored FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:38 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Reallocating 0x0cf5c28e
byte notification buffer.

12/15/2002 09:52:39 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Journal DB will be
restarted for FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:41 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Notification buffer overrun
for monitored FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:41 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Reallocating 0x0f8d4fdd
byte notification buffer.

12/15/2002 09:52:43 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): Journal DB will be
restarted for FS 'G:\'.

12/15/2002 09:52:45 psFsMonitorThread(tid 1184): The maximum number of
buffer overun restarts for JFS 'G:\' exceeded,monitor thread terminating.

12/15/2002 09:52:46 JbbMonitorThread(): FS Monitor thread, tid 1184 ended
with return code 122.

Thanks,
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: Tivoli monitoring visa TEC

[Magura, Curtis]

At the TSM server side setup up:

TECHOST  and posssibly TECPORT depending on your environment. Both
set in dsmserv.opt. Issue the command q enabled tivoli on the TSM server to
display messages that are being forwarded to the TEC server. To add an event
issue the command  ENABLE EVENTS TIVOLI xxx  where xxx equals the
message number. (example ANR2578).

Can't speak to the TEC side and what is required. That's another group. We
just started adding selected messages over the past couple of weeks. Works
great - Automated notification of things that are important to you.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tivoli monitoring visa TEC


Hi All ,

We want to be able to send events from TSM to Tivoli Event Console (TEC).
What is needed to send these events to TEC?

Thank You

SD

Re: tsmjbbd.exe default location

[Magura, Curtis]

Matthew - Same dir as all of the other client components.. assuming you
took default install path:

c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Large, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 5:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tsmjbbd.exe default location


All,

I'm trying to design a Journal based backup solution, without ever having
used it! no problem.. there's loads of docs, but none of them document where
the tsmjbbd.exe file is installed.

can someone who used the default settings please tell me where it resides as
I need to place the tsmjbbd.ini file in the same directory.

Many thanks,

Matthew Large
TSM Infrastructure Engineer
Lavington Street
Int: 7430 4995
Ext: +44 207 902 4995




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Re: SystemObjects

[Magura, Curtis]

You beat me to it Bruce! I get the same thing as younothing. Was just
about reading to send the same note to the list. Based on the growth of our
database I'm pretty sure that we have the problem. Was hoping to use this to
show before and after results. We are currently at 5.1.1.4 and will be going
to 5.1.5.x. Support has suggested 5.1.5.4.

Pretty quiet day with the upcoming holidays so I'm off to adsm.org to see
some of the previous conversations on this thread.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Bruce Kamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SystemObjects


When I use the command show versions api-sql "system objects" from my TSM
server it returns no data!  Am I using the wrong syntax?

Re: System Object backup problem

[Magura, Curtis]

Bruce - Started seeing this on one client about a week ago. Difference is
Server is at 5.1.1.1 client is at 5.1.1.0. Machine was backing up without
incident. Only thing that I have been able to track down that changed is the
Intel support folks removed some Dell Disk Array drivers. I found that if I
go through the GUI and backup each piece of the System Object separately we
die on the system files. All of the other pieces of the system object backup
fine if I do them individually ???

Any one have any thoughts?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Bruce Kamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System Object backup problem


Environment:
TSM Server 5.1.1.6 on AIX 4.3.3 ML10
Client: 5.1.5.9 on Win 2k SP2

I am getting the following error when it tries to backup the system object:

01/30/2003 20:32:24 ANS1228E Sending of object 'C:' failed
01/30/2003 20:32:24 ANS1931E An error saving one or more eventlogs.

Has anybody seen this before?

Thanks,

--

Bruce Kamp
Midrange Systems Analyst II
Memorial Healthcare System
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P: (954) 987-2020 x4597
F: (954) 985-1404
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Re: System Object backup problem

[Magura, Curtis]

Thanks Andy. I'm in the process of going through our internal change control
process to start a client upgrade cycle across the company. I've been
watching the list to see what folks are saying about 5.1.5.9. From a quick
read of the APARS they sound pretty close to what we are seeing although I
don't see a Dr. Watson. Hope to start the upgrades next week once approved
internally.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System Object backup problem


Get the latest client code (5.1.5.9). There are two crash problems fixed
at the 5.1.5.x level, IC33354 and IC34160. This will most likely address
what you are seeing.

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)

Re: System Object backup problem

[Magura, Curtis]

Sorry about that. Poor choice of words. If I run manually the window (GUI or
cmdline) will just close. System does stay up and running.

>From dsmerror last night:
01/29/2003 21:29:54 ANS4005E Error processing 'SYSTEM OBJECT': file not
found

Just ran the command (backup sysfiles) and this was logged in dsmerror:
01/31/2003 07:41:14 Boot path was not found.Assumed boot
path as C:\

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System Object backup problem


Curt, I may have read your earlier post incorrectly; when you said
something about "die on the sysfiles", I was thinking "crash". Can you
elaborate on what you mean by "die"?

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)

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




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Subject:Re: System Object backup problem



Thanks Andy. I'm in the process of going through our internal change
control
process to start a client upgrade cycle across the company. I've been
watching the list to see what folks are saying about 5.1.5.9. From a quick
read of the APARS they sound pretty close to what we are seeing although I
don't see a Dr. Watson. Hope to start the upgrades next week once approved
internally.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System Object backup problem


Get the latest client code (5.1.5.9). There are two crash problems fixed
at the 5.1.5.x level, IC33354 and IC34160. This will most likely address
what you are seeing.

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)

Re: Archive errors

[Magura, Curtis]

Geoff,

As I recall you have been struggling with the Journal feature. Any chance
the messages you are seeing are related to the Journal and not the Archive?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Archive errors


Been trying to get this archive going and for whatever reason I don't
understand the error from the error log. From what I recall this used to
work fine when it was on a 4.2 level on the client.

Client is NT4 SP6
TSM version 5.1.5.2

DSM.OPT is as follows: Some of the names have been changes to protect the
innocent.

LANGAMENG
COMMmethod  TCPIP
TCPServeraddress  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
TCPPort   1500
COMPRESSION  YES
COMPRESSALWAYS NO
NODEname  node02
REPLACE   PROMPT
SUBDIR   Y
tcpbuffsize  32
tcpwindowsize  63
passwordaccess  generate
resourceutilization 3
changingretries  2
maxcmdretries  2
queryschedperiod 24
Retryperiod  15
Schedmode  prompted
SCHEDLOGNAME  C:\Logs\dsmsched.log
ERRORLOGNAME   C:\Logs\dsmerror.log
SCHEDLOGRETENTION  7 D
ERRORLOGRETENTION  7 D
tapeprompt  no

I see the following errors in the dsmerror.log.

02/03/2003 07:29:14 mpDestroy: Memory Pool #18 doesn't exist
02/03/2003 07:30:13 NpOpen: Named pipe error connecting to server WaitOnPipe
failed.
NpOpen: call failed with return code:121 pipe name \\.\pipe\jnl


The command the server is running on the client is as follows:

SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\IBM\ADSM\baclient
SET DSM_CONFIG=C:\Program Files\IBM\ADSM\baclient\dsm.opt
SET DSM_DIR=C:\Program Files\IBM\ADSM\baclient
SET DSM_LOG=c:\logs
cd C:\Program Files\IBM\ADSM\baclient
dsmc archive -subdir=yes -archmc=incr-mgt g:\ITS-Library\ g:\SAIC SYSTEMS
-description="Monthly Archive kept for 6 months"

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: Archive errors

[Magura, Curtis]

Geoff,

I would agree I don't think there is a tie to the Archive but perhaps some
insight to possible Journaling issues if you still have them?? We have
similar pipe messages along with a message ==> NpPeek: Nodata logged in the
dsmerror file daily. Unfortunately no message number so nothing to look up
to even get a clue as to what it means. The timestamp is during our
production backup window so I'm assuming that it's tied to the pipe messages
and that they are tied to the Journal. Getting ready to start client
upgrades. After that if we continue to see the same messages its Support
Center time.

Of course none of this has anything to do with helping your problem!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Archive errors


Curt,

I thought it odd to see these messages too. I can see these messages further
up the log and I have also seen the error messages on another server with
Journaling. It just so happens this computer does have Journaling on it, but
I am logged on via Timbuktu running the archive command I created from a
command prompt. So why then would these messages show up since it's an
archive? Why would Journaling be invoked and why the Named Pipe errors? For
that matter why the Named Pipe errors during a regular incremental backup?

Re: journal errors - return code 121 \\.\pipe\jnl

[Magura, Curtis]

Don't have good news other to say that I still see the message at 5.1.5.9 of
the client talking to 5.1.5.4 server. Haven't had time to call the support
center yet. Working a different call with the support center related to
cleanup backupgroups on one of the servers that just went to 5.1.5.4!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: chris rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: journal errors - return code 121 \\.\pipe\jnl


Hi All

I'm getting the following from a new client that is running journaling.
TSM Client is 5.1.5.2, server is 5.1.5.4.

10-02-2002 09:20:05 NpOpen : Named pipe error connecting to server
WaitOnPipe failed.
NpOpen: call failed with return code:121 pipe name \\.\pipe\jnl


I see there was a similar thread last week ( G.Gill and C.Magura )and
wondered if you guys got any further with it.  We have a few clients at the
above levels using journaling but only 1 seems to be giving the pipe
problem.

TIA

Chris










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Re: journal errors - return code 121 \\.\pipe\jnl

[Magura, Curtis]

Pete,

What about the message - 02/11/2003 04:02:14 NpPeek: No data. ?

We are also seeing this daily in dsmserror on the same clients. Is there a
connection?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Pete Tanenhaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: journal errors - return code 121 \\.\pipe\jnl


This error occurs when the journal daemon process attempts to send a
response on a named pipe provided by
a backup client process and the pipe no longer exists or isn't valid.

This can happen if the backup process/session ends or closes the pipe
before the journal daemon
sends or is finished sending the response or in some cases when the journal
daemon is shutting down and
cleaning up resources.

By itself the error is innocuous but I understand it is annoying to see
error messages in the log which can't
be explained.

Hope this helps 


Pete Tanenhaus
Tivoli Storage Solutions Software Development
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tieline: 320.8778, external: 607.754.4213

"Those who refuse to challenge authority are condemned to conform to it"

-- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San Jose/IBM on
02/11/2003 09:14 AM -----------

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Don't have good news other to say that I still see the message at 5.1.5.9
of
the client talking to 5.1.5.4 server. Haven't had time to call the support
center yet. Working a different call with the support center related to
cleanup backupgroups on one of the servers that just went to 5.1.5.4!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: chris rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: journal errors - return code 121 \\.\pipe\jnl


Hi All

I'm getting the following from a new client that is running journaling.
TSM Client is 5.1.5.2, server is 5.1.5.4.

10-02-2002 09:20:05 NpOpen : Named pipe error connecting to server
WaitOnPipe failed.
NpOpen: call failed with return code:121 pipe name \\.\pipe\jnl


I see there was a similar thread last week ( G.Gill and C.Magura )and
wondered if you guys got any further with it.  We have a few clients at the
above levels using journaling but only 1 seems to be giving the pipe
problem.

TIA

Chris










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Re: journal errors - return code 121 \\.\pipe\jnl

[Magura, Curtis]

Pete, think you said it all with the statement below! Very confusing in the
current state to decide if there is a problem or not.

"That being said, I think development (myself) needs to look at  the np
error logging on both sides and try to eliminate logging messages which
aren't really errors, but in some situations it's difficult to determine if
an error condition is legitimate and should be logged or if it is innocuous
and can be ignored."

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Pete Tanenhaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: journal errors - return code 121 \\.\pipe\jnl


Np errors in the backup client errorlog indicate the opposite condition,
that is the backup client
is trying to read a response sent from the journal daemon which isn't
available at the moment
the read is being done.

This error can happen if the journal daemon ends (obviously a problem) or
(I believe) if the
response the backup client is looking for from the journal daemon is still
in progress, meaning
that the journal daemon hasn't finished processing/sending it.

In most cases the response is ready when the backup client goes to read it,
but if it isn't
the backup client will keep trying to read the response until it either
arrives or a timeout occurs
(don't know the exact wait time of the top of my head).

That being said, I think development (myself) needs to look at  the np
error logging on both sides
and try to eliminate logging messages which aren't really errors, but in
some situations it's difficult
to determine if an error condition is legitimate and should be logged or if
it is innocuous and can be ignored.

Hope this helps ..

Pete Tanenhaus
Tivoli Storage Solutions Software Development
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tieline: 320.8778, external: 607.754.4213

Once Last Journal Question to Pete

[Magura, Curtis]

Pete,

Since we've been trading notes on the Journal Service this morning once last
question please. Is there a documented limit to the number of drives that
can added to the Journal service? I can't seem to get more than 10-11 drives
configured. After that the Journal service will fail to start. I've poked
around in the manuals a bit but haven't found anything that states there is
a limit. We've got a couple of fileservers pushing 20 drives.

Can you help clear this last question up?

Client 5.1.5.9 on both NT 4 and Win2K.
Server 5.1.5.4 on AIX.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203

Re: Once Last Journal Question to Pete

[Magura, Curtis]

Thank you sirgood info!

I wish I could get all of the drives but I'll take 15 drivesI'll give
support a call sometime in the next few days.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Pete Tanenhaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Once Last Journal Question to Pete


The limit is 255 but apar IC35394 was opened against a problem which causes
the journal daemon to crash
when configured with more than 15 drives (15 is ok, 16 or more crashes).

The fix for this should be included in the next ptf but you might want to
check with support to be sure.

Hope this helps 

Pete Tanenhaus
Tivoli Storage Solutions Software Development
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tieline: 320.8778, external: 607.754.4213

"Those who refuse to challenge authority are condemned to conform to it"

-- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San Jose/IBM on
02/11/2003 01:13 PM -----------

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12:59:55 PM

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Subject:Once Last Journal Question to Pete



Pete,

Since we've been trading notes on the Journal Service this morning once
last
question please. Is there a documented limit to the number of drives that
can added to the Journal service? I can't seem to get more than 10-11
drives
configured. After that the Journal service will fail to start. I've poked
around in the manuals a bit but haven't found anything that states there is
a limit. We've got a couple of fileservers pushing 20 drives.

Can you help clear this last question up?

Client 5.1.5.9 on both NT 4 and Win2K.
Server 5.1.5.4 on AIX.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
 321-235-1203

Re: Very strange reply from server

[Magura, Curtis]

We are 5.1.5.4 on AIX and I have seen this a hand full of times after
various commands. Just like you next command worked just fine.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203



-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Very strange reply from server


This is a strange one, not sure I've seen anything like it before. This
morning I saw reclamation still running and tried to cancel it. Check out
the command and reply back. I sent the command a second time and it did
take. Just one of those things
 
I'm on TSM client 5.1.5.9 on Win2K, server is TSM 5.1.6.2
 
tsm: ADSM>cancel pr 916
ANR1702W Skipping 'ÅI1^|²A]ÄIÜ' - unable to resolve to a valid server name.
ANR1700E Unable to resolve 'ÅI1^|²A]ÄIÜ' to any server(s).
ANS8001I Return code 11.
 
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

 

Client install on Solaris 2.6

[Magura, Curtis]

We been upgrading all of our clients over the past few weeks...both Intel
and Unix. Just installed on a Solaris 2.6 machine. Trying tin install client
level 5.1.5.14.

Install went clean. Didn't see anything unusual but:

# dsmc

ld.so.1: dsmc: fatal: relocation error: file dsmc: symbol
__1cG__CrunSregister_e
xit_code6FpG_v_v_: referenced symbol not found

Killed


What the heck did I miss?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203

Re: License Pricing

[Magura, Curtis]

Think that's true Wanda. We are getting ready to stand up two more TSM
servers and the cost of getting those two servers up and running went way
down. Looks like two of them will be cheaper than one using the previous
prices. We will "re-using" some of the client licenses that we already own
as we are moving some workload from existing TSM servers. The catch will be
converting all of current licenses. Haven't done all of that math yet to
compare to what we have paid to get where we are.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: License Pricing


Doesn't the new licensing scheme result in 1) higher prices for clients, but
2) lower prices for the server.

So that if you are just buying client licenses you get hurt.  

But if you are setting up a new TSM server you don't have that big up front
charge for the server end.

So if you plan to back up a just a small number of clients, you may actually
come out cheaper?

Can anyone confirm this (possibly erroneous) opinion?
Tivoli certainly doesn't make it easy to understand.





-Original Message-
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: License Pricing


Yes, I just purchased a single processor license, it was $528 or so USD.
The ones
I purchased just before year end were about $218USD.  

Unless new customers are coming in with huge discounts, I think that TSM is
now
priced out of the market.

As a consultant (in a former life) I would be seriously considering taking
my customers
to other products, if I could find one that fits.

I love the TSM concept, but economics is what rules.  And there is not
enough difference
in the technological differences to make up the economic ones at this point.

> -Original Message-
> From: Cahill, Ricky [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:46 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  License Pricing
> 
> Just got a quote back for some Win2k licenses and was rather surprised at
> the massive increase in price, ok I've not bought a license for a couple
> of
> years but this is bonkers..
> 
> single processor server £391.98 + vat per server
> dual processor server   £783.96 + vat per server
> quad processor server   £1567.92 + vat per server
> 
> Anyone know if a license bought prior to this stupid per cpu idea is valid
> for one server or one cpu??
> 
> 
>..Rikk
> 
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Re: File scan takes ages during backup

[Magura, Curtis]

>From the tsmjbbd.ini file where the client is installed:

;   NotifyFilter
;
;   Specifies what types of filesystem activity to monitor for
;   a journaled filesystem.
;
;   Multiple activities may be monitored by combining (logical OR)
;   values.
;
;   The default value is 0x117 (File and Dir name changes,
;   last write changes, attribute changes, size changes, and
;   security changes).
;
;
;   Notification Type  Filter Value
;
; File name changes, including create,   0x0001
; delete and rename
;
; Dir name changes, including create,0x0002
; delete, and rename
;
; Attribute changes  0x0004
;
; Size changes, notification is deferred 0x0008
; until cache is flushed
;
; Last written time changes, notification0x0010
; is defered until cache is flushed
;
; Last access time changes   0x0020
;
; Creation time changes  0x0040
;
; Security changes   0x0100

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Richard Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: File scan takes ages during backup

Al

You asked Geoff, but I'll reply :)

> Did IBM say why the notifyfilter parameter was significant? I'm
> curious what that controls.

If I remember correctly, IBM said that it controls exactly which events get
notified to the journal service. If your journal buffer is filling up, you
want to cut out unnecessary events. But I can't remember where they define
which bit corresponds to which event.

Richard Foster
Norsk Hydro asa

Re: AW: TSM on AIX and 3494 library problem...

[Magura, Curtis]

How about q path? Are they all showing online?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Przemyslaw Maciuszko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AW: TSM on AIX and 3494 library problem...

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:14:29PM +0200, Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH
wrote:

> are all drives online?

Yes.

> does another application use the drives?

No. Drives with mounts in 'idle' status, are not being used by any processes
or sessions.

> how is the mount retention parameter of the dev-class set?

I think standard (60 minutes)

> do you have other information from the 3494 interface?

No. No errors on library :(


-- 
Przemysław Maciuszko
Agora SA

Fun Facts to Know for the 5.2.0.1 Client

[Magura, Curtis]

Downloaded and installed the 5.2.0.1 client yesterday afternoon. Install was
on an Intel XP SP1 machine. This may or may not be a standard component on a
corporate machine but like some other folks on the list I use my personal
machine as one of the early test beds for new versions. I have Zone Alarm
Pro version 4.01 installed. The TSM install went fine. During the install I
selected the Open File and Image support features via the custom install as
that was I was interested in seeing. After reboot Zone Alarm will not stay
up. I did leave it down when it prompted for a restart long enough to go
into the TSM GUI and look around. Found that since Zone Alarm doesn't
initialize correctly now my network connections were not working and I
wasn't able to connect to the TSM server.



Went back and removed version 5.2 rebooted the system and Zone Alarm came up
fine along with full network connectivity again. Re-installed 5.1.6.0
version of TSM and Zone Alarm is still running fine. So just a heads up for
anyone that may have Zone Alarm installed and thinking of going to 5.2 it
would appear that something between TSM 5.2 and Zone Alarm Pro 4.1 don't get
along very well.



Haven't opened a PMR at this point as I was just going to run on my machine
and thought I could slip it on in 5 minutes. Figure we are still a couple of
months away from starting what I would call the real 5.2 deployment and at
this point I don't have anytime to fool with.



Curt Magura

Lockheed Martin EIS

Orlando Fla.

321-235-1203

Re: TSM reporting tool

[Magura, Curtis]

You will have an additional service running assuming you want to automate
the reports other than that nothing else required as I recall.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM reporting tool

For people that have the beta of the Tivoli Reporting tool:

Is is a stand alone product or does it require other  Tivoli software
to run?

Re: Fun Facts to Know for the 5.2.0.1 Client

[Magura, Curtis]

All valid points Andy. I had a few minutes to kill before a meeting so I
tried your suggestion and installed 5.2.0.1 and this time didn't select the
Open File or Image Support features.

TSM installed fine as expected. Within about 30 seconds got the same message
from Zone Alarm that says the True Vector Engine has stopped and asks if you
want to restart it. So I went ahead and removed 5.2 for now.

The only difference that I noted was the original install (with the OFS and
Image support) asked for a reboot so I got the Zone Alarm messages during
the start of the machine. This time no reboot was requested and as mentioned
it took about 30 seconds to detect that something wasn't right.

As you suggest I'll pursue this through a PMR when I can spare some time and
it very well may be a Zone Alarm issue although it is working fine with
5.1.x TSM client levels. I was really looking to get some "burn time" on 5.2
using my machine until we started the more formal 5.2 upgrades on production
level machines.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fun Facts to Know for the 5.2.0.1 Client

Not to deny any responsibility (if any) on the part of TSM, but standard
troubleshooting steps are to start with the component that exhibits the
problem, which from your description is Zone Alarm. If Zone Alarm support
needs info from us, open a PMR and we will be happy to work with you and
your Zone Alarm support engineer. But we will almost certainly be unable
to diagnose the problem that Zone Alarm is having.

With that said, is there anything in the Windows event log that might
indicate what the problem is?

I would suspect -- perhaps a good guess at best -- that the problem lies
with the tsmlvsa.sys filter that is installed with the image backup and/or
open file support features. Try installing 5.2.0.1 without those features
and see if that makes any difference.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




"Magura, Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
07/02/2003 04:04
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Fun Facts to Know for the 5.2.0.1 Client



Downloaded and installed the 5.2.0.1 client yesterday afternoon. Install
was
on an Intel XP SP1 machine. This may or may not be a standard component on
a
corporate machine but like some other folks on the list I use my personal
machine as one of the early test beds for new versions. I have Zone Alarm
Pro version 4.01 installed. The TSM install went fine. During the install
I
selected the Open File and Image support features via the custom install
as
that was I was interested in seeing. After reboot Zone Alarm will not stay
up. I did leave it down when it prompted for a restart long enough to go
into the TSM GUI and look around. Found that since Zone Alarm doesn't
initialize correctly now my network connections were not working and I
wasn't able to connect to the TSM server.



Went back and removed version 5.2 rebooted the system and Zone Alarm came
up
fine along with full network connectivity again. Re-installed 5.1.6.0
version of TSM and Zone Alarm is still running fine. So just a heads up
for
anyone that may have Zone Alarm installed and thinking of going to 5.2 it
would appear that something between TSM 5.2 and Zone Alarm Pro 4.1 don't
get
along very well.



Haven't opened a PMR at this point as I was just going to run on my
machine
and thought I could slip it on in 5 minutes. Figure we are still a couple
of
months away from starting what I would call the real 5.2 deployment and at
this point I don't have anytime to fool with.



Curt Magura

Lockheed Martin EIS

Orlando Fla.

321-235-1203

Re: TSM reporting tool

[Magura, Curtis]

>From what I was told this will come with a future version of the product.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM reporting tool

Will this be a separately priced product or delivered with TSM?

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/02/03 08:55AM >>>
You will have an additional service running assuming you want to
automate
the reports other than that nothing else required as I recall.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM reporting tool

For people that have the beta of the Tivoli Reporting tool:

Is is a stand alone product or does it require other  Tivoli software
to run?

Re: Fun Facts to Know for the 5.2.0.1 Client

[Magura, Curtis]

Well. Got to give credit where credit is due. Absolutely fantastic
support by Andy. Wouldn't it be nice if all vendors have an Andy or two on
staff.

In case you didn't follow this thread I posted to the list more or less as
an FYI that after I installed 5.2.0.1 that Zone Alarm started acting up on
my machine. Andy suggested one thing which I tried and the results where the
same. After that Andy followed up with the post below.

Sure enough that took care of the issue. Everything is up and running both
5.2.0.1 and Zone Alarm Pro 4.0.1.

In the event you are a Zone Alarm user and follow the instructions in the
link below be aware that all settings are lost following the process
mentioned. The newer versions of Zone Alarm have a backup and restore
feature. I was able to restore (not TSM but Zone Alarm restore function) all
of the config info)

THANKS Andy for all or your help not only to me but to everyone on this
list!!!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fun Facts to Know for the 5.2.0.1 Client

I can spell "Zone Alarm", and that is really the extent of my knowledge on
this product. With that said, I did a little poking around on their web
site, and came across this article:
http://65.200.195.204/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/corruptlogs.html.

Don't know whether that will help, but it's worth a shot...

Let me know how you make out with this.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

Re: TSM 5.2.3 and library compatibility.

[Magura, Curtis]

Larry,

Close but not exactly the levels you are asking about. We were running
with a 5.2.2.5 master and two other servers (another 5.2.2.5 and a
5.1.5.4) sharing without problems.

We are now at 5.3.1.0 on the master and have a 5.3.1.0 and the old
5.1.5.4 machine sharing We are working on shutting down the 5.1.5.4
box but still waiting on some old backup data to expire off.

The combination worked fine for us.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mcnutt, Larry E.
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:46 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.2.3 and library compatability.

Hello TSMrs,

We are running two AIX TSM servers at 5.1.7.0. - tsm1 and tsm2. They
share a
3494 library, and tsm1 is the library master.  We plan to upgrade tsm1
initially to 5.2.3.0, and in a few weeks upgrade tsm2.  This seems to be
a
valid combination with the library master at 5.2.3 and the library
client at
5.1.7 according to the readme file.  We are not able to test this prior
to
actually doing the upgrade, so it would be comforting to hear if anyone
has
actually had a similar situation.

>From the readme-



* $$2 Added library sharing compatibility
*




Version 5.2.2 Servers acting as a library manager are now backwards
compatible
with version 5.1 and 4.2 servers acting as a library client.  Version
5.2.2
servers acting as library clients remain incompatible with version 5.1
and
4.2
servers acting as library managers. When upgrading multiple servers
participating in library sharing to version 5.2, the servers acting as
library
managers must be upgraded first to maintain compatibility among the
servers.

Thanks,
Larry McNutt
The Timken Company

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Re: Long pause in the middle of an NT backup.

[Magura, Curtis]

Not dependent upon the server platform We are hosted on AIX as well
and have been using the journal feature for a couple of years with our
Intel clients.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Bill Fitzgerald
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Long pause in the middle of an NT backup.

I was under the impression that Journalized backups only work if both
client and server are windows. That journalizing was not possible with
an AIX TSM server.

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/8/04 12:42:25 PM >>>
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Anderson, Matt
>I'm experiencing behavior on some NT nodes where, in the middle of a
>scheduled backup, there will be a long pause where no activity seems
to
>occur. It would appear to occur after the backup of one drive
>finishes, but
>before the next one starts. For example, see this log excerpt from
this
>morning:
>
>06/08/2004 01:30:46 ANS1898I * Processed 1,911,000 files *
>06/08/2004 01:30:47 ANS1898I * Processed 1,916,000 files *
>06/08/2004 01:30:49 ANS1898I * Processed 1,916,500 files *
>06/08/2004 01:31:50 Normal File-->   141,971,832
>\\my-server\f$\PerforceETC\Logs\Log.txt  Changed
>06/08/2004 01:32:34 Retry # 1  Normal File-->   141,971,832
>\\my-server\f$\PerforceETC\Logs\Log.txt [Sent]
>06/08/2004 01:32:34 Successful incremental backup of '\\my-server\f$'
>
>06/08/2004 07:56:10 ANS1898I * Processed 1,917,000 files *
>06/08/2004 07:56:13 ANS1898I * Processed 1,917,500 files *
>06/08/2004 07:56:15 ANS1898I * Processed 1,918,000 files *
>06/08/2004 07:56:17 ANS1898I * Processed 1,918,500 files *
>
>There's almost 6.5 hours where no activity was logged in the
>dsmsched.log.
>There is a (possibly) corresponding message in the dsmerror.log:
>
>06/08/2004 01:30:48 win32NpWrite(): Error 233 writing to named pipe
>
>The client is Windows 2000 running TSM client version 5.2.2.5
>The TSM server is AIX 5.2 running TSM server version 5.2.2.2

What's (probably) happening is that TSM is doing a scan of directories
of the drive it's about to backup. If the upcoming drive is as large
as
the one described in your log excerpt above, that's almost assuredly
it.

Take a look at the TSM Journaling service described in the Window
client
manual. The use of that should greatly alleviate the delay in backups
(and an even greater delay with large-scale restores).

--
Mark Stapleton

Re: Library capacity

[Magura, Curtis]

Issue the following from your H50.

mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -qL

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Library capacity


Hello all,

My current setup, H50, 3494LIB, 4 3590's, 7133 D40, is beginning to come to
a point where I need more capacity, or so I feel. I would like for the
company to order the next section of library, 2 3494's, memory for the
computer, DASD and a few other bits now, but I found out yesterday it won't
happen till Q4. Now I believe I may have a problem with this but without a
way for me to estimate how much the system will grow in relation to what I
have available I can't very well push them to order sooner.

With all the knowledge I have at my disposal, and I don't mean my own,
that's where you all come in, I'm looking for some commands within AIX or
TSM to get the information I need. Is there a way to find out how many slots
the 3494 has, total, used and available? Sure I could start counting...no,
forget that idea Commands for this would help greatly.

Now with that figured out I'm looking to see if there is a way to figure out
how many tapes are used each day, for onsite and offsite, as opposed to how
many tapes are reclaimed/returned. If I could run this each day for a month
and maybe backdate it if possible, I might come up with an idea when we
would hit the wall. Taking into account the library is shared with MVS,
which has 2 drives of it's own, I would have to factor in their info if I
could get it.

I have Exchange and another group who want access now, which would put an
additional load on what I already have. So keeping in mind those could get
implemented before I get more space, I could very well run out even quicker
than expected. My own feeling is, even without the additional computers,
I'll run out of space before Q4.

Thanks for the help,

Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
Computer Systems Group
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

Re: Possible Bill-Back methods

[Magura, Curtis]

We bill out for a few clients that we backup for another internal division.

Real high level:

Total amount of capacity / total$ for the hardware (including maint charges)
+ total$ for the software + total$ for the media + labor$ + $$ amount of
square footage we consume in the datacenter for the hardware to sit there =
our rate charged per GB stored per month to each client that wants the
service.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305



-Original Message-
From: Blaine Gilbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Possible Bill-Back methods

Hello all,

I currently in the process of creating a bill-back matrix for my off-site
clients.  I am curious to see if there are "industry standards" for a
formula that I can use.  Below are some of the questions in particular.

1.  Do you charge per GB of total storage?  If so, what is a good price to
charge?
2.  Do you charge for Network use / transfer time.
3.  I am also planning on putting in a support fee for restores and misc.
work.

Any discussion on this would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Blaine

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup of Remote Sites

[Magura, Curtis]

Works for us We back up 20-25 small NT based nodes scattered around the
Washington D.C. area to a larger site in Gaithersburg Md. They are all T1
connections. We run with client compression on and overall average about 1
GB per hour on a single T1. Again not something you would want to do for a
larger node but for a small office with one or two servers it beats dealing
with a local backups and ensuring that someone is doing the tape
mount/unmount work reliably.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: David Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Backup of Remote Sites


I have a question for all of the *SM/Network experts
out there.  We have a central office that we just
started using TSM at.  We also have several remote
offices that are connected to central office via
dedicated lines.  Theses sites currently are running
their own backups via NTBackup.  We are concerned that
these backups are unreliable/not offsite/not being done.
The dedicated lines are mostly 256Kbs lines but a few
are smaller.  Is it a good idea to try to back up these
sites across the WAN using *SM?  We realize that the first
backup would take a while, but after we suffer through that,
the amount of changed data would be small.  Is it a good
idea in this case to turn on client compression?  Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

--David Nash
  Systems Administrator
  The GSI Group

Re: 3590-B1A to 3590-E1A

[Magura, Curtis]

Not true we have a mix of both "J" and "K" tapes in the same 3494. Not a
problem. Both will coexist just fine.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Tyree, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3590-B1A to 3590-E1A


We will be doing an update to our tape drives around the end of the
month. I've looked over the older messages concerning this and all I saw was
a dilemma about microcode levels. The messages were dated the last part of
1999, so I would image that the microcode has been updated since then.
Here's the situation, we are running (1) 3494 library with (2)
3590-B1A drives attached to an IBM Netfinity 7000 M10 server running WinNT4
SP5, TSM version 3.7.2.
We currently have about 250 "J" tapes on hand and we will have those
used up in about 60-90 days. That's why we are going with the newer drives.
We understand that they have 256 tracks on the new drives as opposed to the
128 tracks on the older ones. Thus doubling our tape capacity.
Now the question, we have been told that the new drives will read
and write to our current "J" tapes just fine. They will read the 128 tracks
and then as we do our tape reclamations it will then write to the tape on
256 tracks. As we cycle in the older tapes in for reclaiming they all become
256 track at some point. We generally have about 5-6 tapes a day go offsite
and about that many returning each day as well. Is this correct??
I also understand the E1A drives will work the best if we go to the
newer "K" tapes, however you can't have "J" and "K" tapes in the library at
the same time for some reason.


David Tyree
Microcomputer Specialist
South Georgia Medical Center
229.333.1155

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Re: ADSM client for Solaris 2.5.1

[Magura, Curtis]

Anyone out there still have access to a client that will support Solaris
2.5? We have some machines that can't be upgraded to a current Solaris
version and all we have in-house are the clients that support Solaris 2.5.1
or higher.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md. 
301-240-6305



-Original Message-
From: Chibois, Herve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ADSM client for Solaris 2.5.1


Oups !!

I'm afraid you will be stuck with an old 3.1 client

ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/adsm/fixes/v3r1/sol25

rv

> -Message d'origine-
> De : Rosli Anggon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoyé : mercredi 18 avril 2001 06:34
> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : ADSM client for Solaris 2.5.1
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm planing to do backup one of our SUN workstation running solaris
> 2.5.1 OS.
> Appreciate if some one could tell me where can I down the ADSM client
> this OS.
> 
> Thank You in Advance.
> Rosli
> 

Re: Sams Vantage??

[Magura, Curtis]

Interesting... What version of SAMS are you running? We also run it and
would agree that at times the syntax is "clunky" to get the data that you
want. We haven't experienced the blue screen or lock up problems.

We use it for almost all of daily metrics and reporting to customers and
management. Also use it to collect disk utilization and capacity information
on all of the file servers. We monitor servers all across the country and
from one pane of glass can display not only the status of our TSM
environments but also the status of the storage that TSM is backing up.

We are currently at 5.5.1 and in the process of upgrading to 6.x. Between
our records and theirs we seem to be out of sync on what our customer number
is. As soon as we get that corrected we should get the new version. Did look
at the Tivoli module but doesn't look like it will get the disk numbers we
are after. We have another group working with the Tivoli Endpoint clients
and the data that it can gather. So far it looks like a combination of the
Endpoint stuff and the SAMS stuff gives us the data that we are looking for.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305



-Original Message-
From: Stephen Mackereth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sams Vantage??


Hi Joe,

We run it but its not very good.
it not as good as TDS (Tivoli Decision Support) for TSM, which can be
configured to retrieve different information from the TSM Server.

we have outstanding issues with sams where it will just lock up, blue screen
or
stop collecting information from TSM, when it finds something in the act log
it can't handle.

we are about to turn it off.

> Regards
>
> Stephen Mackereth
> Senior UNIX Consultant / Senior Storage Administrator (TSM)
> ITS Unix Systems Support
> Coles Myer Ltd.


-Original Message-
From: Joseph Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 April 2001 22:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sams Vantage??


Is anyone using this product ? And are you happy with it?? please advise,
thanks




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Re: 500GB Backup

[Magura, Curtis]

Due to a temporary lack of disk we had to start writing backups from one of
our large NT file servers directly to tape. we have two large NT file
servers backing up at the same time. One going to SSA disk pool the other to
a pool that is writing directly to 2 3590E1A's. TSM Server is hosted on a
RISC/6000 H70. Both client machines backup up around 75-80 GB per night on
average. They are both Compaq 6500's connected to IBM ESS for disk.

In most cases the machine backing up directly to tape out performs the
machine backing up to the disk pool. This is just comparing Total Elapsed
Time and nothing else.

Imagine that!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 11:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 500GB Backup


We have 3590EA1 drives using Ultra Scsi connection that write at 14MB/s
which I believe is faster than the SSA disks write speed.  I think the the
3590EA1 will write at 40MB/s if using compression.  I don't see my tape
drives writing faster than my disk.

-Original Message-
From: Burton, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 9:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 500GB Backup


Tape direct is a heck of a lot faster than disk

Robert Burton
Open System Storage Analyst
Royal Bank of Canada
315 Front St West
Toronto, On, M5V 3A4
416-348-3849
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 500GB Backup


Why would I send the data to tape first writing to disk is faster.

-Original Message-
From: Vibhute, Bandu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 3:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 500GB Backup


What I understood from your setup is as follows.

You are doing cold backup everyday using TSM disk pools. Your backup time is
6 hrs for 500 Gig and you will be backing up 1TB in next few months. Your
TSM server has only one SSA Adapter.

If you could do following changes in your setup, You should be able to
reduce backup window time.

1. Schedule backup with multiple threads using Gigabit Fiber Channel
Interface.
2. Configure Copy group to send backup data directly to tapes( Don't use
disk group)

-Bandu

-Original Message-
From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 500GB Backup


The amount of data is the same everday 500GB full backup.  I'm using one SSA
card in the tsm system.  I could get Gig cards if I have proof that I'm
maxing out the current 100mb cards in the system and I don't seem to be
doing that.  The tsm server is plugged into the same switch has the backup
server and on the same ip subnet.  Also, the database files that I'm backing
up are just oracle dump files.  The tsm serve is also running aix 4.3.3.

-Original Message-
From: Vibhute, Bandu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 500GB Backup


We are backing up 2 servers of capacity 1.2 TB everyday. We have shark
system and flash copy is implemented on shark. Without client interference
we backup 1.2 Gig to TSM. It's running with 6 drives. No LAN/Free. But it's
Client/Free backup. To restore we have placed Gbit Interfaces in Client and
TSM Server.

You need to give more information of your server and database.

Are you doing incremental or full backup and which database you have?
If incremental how much data is changed everyday?

Can you afford GBit interface between data server and TSM? ( IT needs 2
adapter and 1 switch)
How many drives your library have? How many SSA adapters are installed in
server?

Thank you,
Bandu Vibhute,
Bestfoods Baking Company,
55 Paradise Lane, Bay Shore, NY, 11706
Voice: 631-951-5212, Cell: 516-702-0323


-Original Message-
From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 500GB Backup
Importance: High


Hi
If I am correct IBM offers LAN free backup which is faster .But need to
purchase additional s/w.
pinni



-Original Message-
From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 500GB Backup


I need to backup a 500GB database and my current setup is my tsm server is
on the same ip subnet has the database server.  Tsm is connected to 500GB of
SSA storage with 5 RAID5 sets with two 50GB tsm volumes on each raid set.
My though put to the disk only seems to be 9000 kB/s.  Which doesn't seem
very high to me. My backup time is about 6 hours.  Does anyone have any
better senarios for backing up this amount of data in the smallest amount of
time soon.  I am going to be backing up a 1Tb per day and I need to get me
backup times to the lowest.  Does anyone have any suggestion

Re: Network Appliance

[Magura, Curtis]

We are using a NetApp on one of our Sun machines out in Colorado Springs.
Solaris sees the NetApp as NFS data. We have the various filesystems coded
in DSM.SYS. Would be nice if there was native support rather than putting
the data on the network twice.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network Appliance


We recently brought in a Network Appliance, so we are new to this. Since you
can't install any software on the Network Appliance, a direct TSM backup is
out of the question. Our intention is to run a TSM command schedule from
another server to perform the TSM backup.

The TSM command schedule command will map a network drive, invoke DSMC
incremental on the newly mapped network drive and then remove the drive
mapping. At least, in theory it should work. Any other thoughts?

John G. Talafous  IS Technical Principal
The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support
P.O. Box 6927 Data Management
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390
Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.timken.com


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network Appliance


Is anyone familiar with Network Appliance products and can TSM back them up
directly or any other way?
Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

Re: Network Appliance

[Magura, Curtis]

John,

 I'm not the NetApp expert. Actually one of the folks at another location
manages that box. As I understand it the Netapp will present the data as
exported NFS filesystems to any NFS client that wants to mount it. On the
Intel side it makes the data available in CIFS format so clients can "net
use" to the box. There are some various permission schemes in place to
protect the data from unauthorized use.

 We have both Intel and Unix boxes accessing the device. If you would like I
can send you a contact offline for more details. Might be some other folks
on the list that are little more versed in the actual NetApp nuts-n-bolts
than I am.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network Appliance


Curtis,
  You mention you are using the NetApp on a Sun machine. What do you mean by
this? How is your NetApp configured? (Network mapping or hard-wired or
whatever?)
  We will be using our NetApp with WindowsNT and Citrix servers.

TIA,
John G. Talafous
Information Systems Technical Principal
Global Software Support - Data Management
telephone:  (330)-471-3390
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ctnvm.inside.tkr/~talafous/
http://www.cis.corp.inside.tkr/networkstorage/




-Original Message-----
From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network Appliance


We are using a NetApp on one of our Sun machines out in Colorado Springs.
Solaris sees the NetApp as NFS data. We have the various filesystems coded
in DSM.SYS. Would be nice if there was native support rather than putting
the data on the network twice.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network Appliance


We recently brought in a Network Appliance, so we are new to this. Since you
can't install any software on the Network Appliance, a direct TSM backup is
out of the question. Our intention is to run a TSM command schedule from
another server to perform the TSM backup.

The TSM command schedule command will map a network drive, invoke DSMC
incremental on the newly mapped network drive and then remove the drive
mapping. At least, in theory it should work. Any other thoughts?

John G. Talafous  IS Technical Principal
The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support
P.O. Box 6927 Data Management
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390
Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.timken.com


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network Appliance


Is anyone familiar with Network Appliance products and can TSM back them up
directly or any other way?
Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

TDP for SQL Question

[Magura, Curtis]

We are looking into starting to use TDP for SQL. Question from our DBA's:

When configuring the SQL Server backups is it possible to configure a backup
that will backup ALL the SQL Server databases (master, msdb, and user
created) with one command such that if additional databases are added to SQL
Server they are automatically backed up?  OR does TDP have to be configured
every time a new database is added in SQL Server?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: Offsite Storage of Tapes

[Magura, Curtis]

Can't offer much other than we used to use 3570 tapes and Arcus and did the
exact same thing. Good news no problems that we can attribute to that.

We have moved to 3590 carts and no longer have the concern.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Offsite Storage of Tapes


I have a different kind of question about the offsite storage/transport of
tapes for our IBM 3575 library.  We use Arcus Data Security for this.  At
present the tapes are put in an open case and we use foam pieces (really!)
as filler so tapes won't bang around much.

Our local Arcus site says they can't find that there is a case made for
these tapes or an "insert" for some of their cases that has slots for
individual tapes.  I know other tapes have this "custom" type of case of
insert.

Does anyone out there using 3575 tapes and Arcus have any better answer and
can you provide me details for my local office - Part Numbers or something.

Thanks,


David B. Longo
System Administrator
Health First, Inc.
3300 Fiske Blvd.
Rockledge, FL 32955-4305
PH  321.434.5536
Pager  321.634.8230
Fax:321.434.5525
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Re: IBM ESS Model 2105-F20

[Magura, Curtis]

See a few folks are using ESS. So are we.

Does anyone know of a good forum to discuss ESS subjects. We have some
questions regarding VPATH's and HACMP.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Caffey, Jeff L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FW: IBM ESS Model 2105-F20


Ruud,

I'd look at the Fibre Channel Adapter on the ESS.  It could be functioning
just well enough to allow a stable link to your SAN (therefore your paths
will look good), but it may not be seeing the DASD inside the ESS.   FCAs
are hard to troubleshoot because a loop back test isn't a very reliable
test.  All it tells you is that light is traveling successfully around the
loop - it doesn't prove that actual communications are occurring.
Good luck on this one, and please let me know what you find out!
Thank you,
Jeff Caffey
Enterprise Systems Programmer
(AIX & Storage Administrator)
Pier 1 imports, Inc.  -  Information Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: (817) 252-6222
Fax:   (817) 252-7299

-Original Message-
From:   Van Ruler, Ruud R SSI-ISES-31 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Tuesday, June 12, 2001 8:08 AM
To: Caffey, Jeff L.; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject:RE: IBM ESS Model 2105-F20

it seemed Jeff did not get this email the first time therefor i had to sent
it again:

thanks Becky, Jeff
However, I think this is not the answer I was looking for because the
problem still exists:
On this server we could see some, but not all, of the disks on each path.
Furthermore, when a disk was missing, it was not visible down any path and
this was not fixed by running cfgmgr more times.
any ideas ?
thanks in advance
Ruud van Ruler,  Shell Services International BV - ISES/31 Our Central Data
Storage Management home page:
http://sww2.shell.com/cdsm/
> Room 1B/G01
> Dokter van Zeelandstraat 1, 2285 BD Leidschendam NL
Tel : +31 (0)70 - 3034644, Fax 4011, Mobile +31 (0)6-55127646
Email Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
R.vanRuler


-Original Message-
From:   Caffey, Jeff L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   11 June 2001 19:47
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: IBM ESS Model 2105-F20


Ruud,
Becky is right, but here's a way you can do it that seems to me to be a
little less disruptive.

Use the "-l" option and the name of the adapter on the end of your command.
Do this once for each device, then one plain config-manager to put the
vpaths into AIX's ODM...

Example if you have three paths:
cfgmgr -l fcs0
cfgmgr -l fcs1
cfgmgr -l fcs2
cfgmgr
This way, cfgmgr only runs once (for the specified device each time) and is
much faster if you have many devices on a high-end server.
Thank you,
Jeff Caffey
Enterprise Systems Programmer
(AIX & Storage Administrator)
Pier 1 imports, Inc.  -  Information Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: (817) 252-6222
Fax:   (817) 252-7299

-Original Message-
From:   Davidson, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Monday, June 11, 2001 10:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: IBM ESS Model 2105-F20

If you have more then one path going to data then you need to run cfgmgr for
each path.  For example if you have 3 paths then you often need to run
cfgmgr 3 times to get all of the paths.
Becky

-Original Message-
From:   Van Ruler, Ruud R SSI-ISES-31
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Monday, June 11, 2001 10:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:IBM ESS Model 2105-F20


Guys
this is not really a TSM matter but perhaps someone could help me out here:
At the moment we have a concerning situation on a ESS. When we change
ESS-ports for an AIX-server without touching the assigned LUN's of the
server, only a Hba-swap on the ESS, our customers complain about the
availability of the disks from the servers point of view. They say that
after we performed this action and they have deleted the disks, rebooted the
server and ran config-manager, they still have missing disks (some disks are
visible, but not all of them), note that before the Hba-swap, the server
could see all its disks.
When they boot the server again a couple of days later, all the disks are
visible again without us performing any actions on the ESS or the switches.

any ideas ???
thanks

Ruud van Ruler,  Shell Services International BV - ISES/31 Our Central Data
Storage Management home page:
http://sww2.shell.com/cdsm/
> Room 1B/G01
> Dokter van Zeelandstraat 1, 2285 BD Leidschendam NL
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Email Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: TSM tapes out of Sink with Library manager

[Magura, Curtis]

Give this a shot..

mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI > /tmp/3494.inv

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From:   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM tapes out of Sink with Library manager


I was wondering if anyone has encountered this situation.

Environment: two TSM servers running on RS6000 v 3.7.4
Sharing the Same 3494 library

It appears that the library manager database is out of sync.
I run a checkin scratch of a range of vol sers and TSM says it can't check
in about ten because they are not scratches.
When I attempt to use the mtlib command to eject the tapes library manager
says they are not in the library?
Does anyone have a way to get the inventory from the library and put it to
a file so I can compare it with what TSM thinks it has in the library?

Re: Moving from single length to extended length 3590 cartridge t apes.

[Magura, Curtis]

I would agree. We are using both J and K carts in the same library, same
stgpool same devclass...etc. IBM installed the MES to the 3494 and the 3590
E1A's. We installed a newer version of drivers(atape 5.1.3.0, atldd 4.0.8.0)
on AIX (4.3.3,TSM 3.7.3). Used TSM to label the new tapes and check them in.


Everything is working.

Per TSM (q vol) the most we have been able to put on a tape so far is a
little over 81GB.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg Md.

-Original Message-
From: bbullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 1:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Moving from single length to extended length 3590 cartridge
t apes.


Woah, woah woah, I think you are talking 2 different things here.

I believe the question being asked is "Can the single length 3590
tapes (denoted by a 'j' on them) co-exist in a library with the new extended
length tapes (denoted by a 'k' on them)?" I believe that the answer is yes,
as long as your tape drives are the 3590E drives. The 3590E tape drives will
know the length of the tape when it mounts it (because of the little colored
tabs below the label) and write it correctly. The 3590E writes out 256
tracks regardless of the tape length.

I believe that the question you have answered is, "How do I go about
upgrading my 3590B or 3590Ultra drives to the 3590E drives and use the same
tapes?" In this case, there is a difference in the number of tracks it is
writing and the procedure that is described below is valid.

We have upgraded to the 3590E drives but have yet to put in any of
the extended length tapes to test this theory, so I'm not 100% sure of this,
but that is the way IBM has explained it to us.

Thanks,
Ben
Micron Technology

> -Original Message-
> From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 1:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Moving from single length to extended length
> 3590 cartridge
> tapes.
>
>
> Yes you can, but you need to upgrade to at least 3.1.2.50. We
> needed to do
> so. Lower levels will not be able to use the extended length feature.
> But when you use both tape lengths at the same time you have to do the
> following first, or else you will end up having many
> read/write errors. This
> is because the difference in number of tracks.
>
> 1. update all single length tapes to access=reado
> 2. move alle data of all single length tapes to scratch tapes.
> 3. update all tapes back to access=readw
>
> The tape drives will not be able write 256 tracks on a 128
> tracks tape.
>
>
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Irene
> Braun
> Verzonden: dinsdag 29 augustus 2000 20:00
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Moving from single length to extended length 3590 cartridge
> tapes.
>
>
> We are currently using single length 3590 cartridge tapes and
> would like
> to move to using extended length tapes.  We are running ADSM
> 3.1.2.40 on
> AIX.
> Can the two different tape length types co-exist in ADSM and
> if so how can
> this be accomplished?  Does it entail defining a second
> virtual library with
> a separate device class etc.  Would it be simple to manage?  Is there
> any
> online documentation discussing this procedure?
> Thanks,  Irene
> EMAIL:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

Automate NT Event Log Backups ??

[Magura, Curtis]

Just stumbled into the fact that we aren't backing up the NT event logs on a
regular basis. Silly me thought it was part of the scheduled incrementals.
Played around this morning with the backup and restore event log commands
and they work fine. How are other folks scheduling these commands?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

NT Event Logs

[Magura, Curtis]

Asked this in the hast of the moment yesterday and didn't see any responses.
Let me try one more time.

We discovered that we are not backing up the NT event logs as part of the
daily scheduled incremental backups. We have issued the backup event and
restore event commands and they work just fine. What we are looking for is
input on what other sites are doing in relation to backing up the NT event
logs. It's not obvious how to automate this. Looked through the options
available in DSM.OPT and didn't see anything. Thought about setting up a
command schedule to do this daily.

Finding it hard to believe this is done as part of the everyday incr. backup
process more or less similar to the NT registry

Thought ideas?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: SAMS:Vantage ADSM edition

[Magura, Curtis]

Irene,

We are using Sams Vantage. I would agree with the mixed reviews. Some nice
stuff but a times a little cumbersome. We are also using the "other"
(Network Edition) features of the product to monitor disk capacity and
usage. So from a single pain of glass we are monitoring all of our major
file servers (both NT and UNIX) at 5 different locations across the country
and at the same time reporting on the TSM activities that are occurring on
those clients. The clients are spread across two TSM servers and once again
a mix of NT and UNIX.

We haven't taken advantage of all of the features that the product
offers.no time! For the day to day status it gives us all the
information that we have been after.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Irene Braun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SAMS:Vantage ADSM edition


Has anyone out there used SAMS:Vantage to help obtain at a glance
information about all ADSM activity?  I'm just wondering how users
feel about the product.  Is it proving to be a very useful tool
or is it overkill?  We are currently evaluating the product and
have some mixed views.  Thanks in advance.

Irene Braun
EMAIL:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ATAPE drivers

[Magura, Curtis]

ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/devdrvr/AIX/

Enjoy


Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 6:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATAPE drivers


Hi *SM-ers!
I successfully installed the new TSM 3.7.4 server on an AIX box. The readme
states that one has to use the most current ATAPE drivers, but it does not
mention a download site.
Does anybody know the correct URL for downloading these drivers?
Thanks in advance for your reply!
Kindest regards,
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4.1.2 Server on NT

[Magura, Curtis]

Has anyone downloaded the latest server for NT 4.1.2.0 and been able to
install? Tried it on two different machines and it stops within a minute and
is looking for 139MB of additional space. File downloaded -
TSM4120_Server.exe.

Both machines have more that that amount of free disk space. We were hoping
to install this version to clean up the end of tape problem along with x'B8'
blue screens. Both appear to be fixed per the readme. To bad we can't get it
installed!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: 4.1.2 Server on NT

[Magura, Curtis]

Specifying a full path with drive letter as Mike suggests during the install
corrected the problem for us on a test box.


Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Mike Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 9:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 4.1.2 Server on NT


Steve and Curt,

TSM4120_Server.exe is a self-extracting Installshield package for the web
package.   When unpacked the package is about 146MB.

Please try providing a full path on the "Location to Save Files" page of
the Installshield package for the web wizard.

By default this path shows

  TSM_images\TSM412_Server_E2

Try giving it an explicit path like:

   C:\TSM_images\TSM412_Server_E2

It looks like package for the web has problems calculating free space if
the drive letter is not provided.

Sorry for any inconvienience...

Steve Bennett writes:
 > I just downloaded the fix and also have the same problem. Tivoli are you
 > listening?
 >
 > "Magura, Curtis" wrote:
 > >
 > > Has anyone downloaded the latest server for NT 4.1.2.0 and been able
to
 > > install? Tried it on two different machines and it stops within a
minute and
 > > is looking for 139MB of additional space. File downloaded -
 > > TSM4120_Server.exe.
 > >
 > > Both machines have more that that amount of free disk space. We were
hoping
 > > to install this version to clean up the end of tape problem along with
x'B8'
 > > blue screens. Both appear to be fixed per the readme. To bad we can't
get it
 > > installed!
 > >
 > > Curt Magura
 > > Lockheed Martin EIS
 > > Gaithersburg, Md.
 > > 301-240-6305
 >
 > --
 >
 > Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
 > State of Alaska, Information Technology Group, Technical Services
 > Section

Regards,

Mike Collins
Tivoli Storage Manager Development
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Re: Time line reporting

[Magura, Curtis]

Saw the thread a day or so ago about various reporting tools. We are using
SAMS Vantage. Changed from Strling Software to sometime last year. Haven't
checked in awhile but I get the felling that it be going or already out of
support. We are using on a couple of 4.x servers. Worked with 3.x also.

For a sample of the data collected for an admin task open the attached with
your favorite spreadsheet. Similar data is available for backup, archives,
etc.

Various canned reports available within SAMS, create your own or export it
to a file and crunch away.

Does require a seperate NT based machine to run the SAMS server on. We also
use it to collect various disk metrics from both NT and Unix servers. Gives
us a "single pane of glass" for all of the storage related metrics.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md. 
301-240-6305




-Original Message-
From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Time line reporting


Hello, very intersted too. 
For now, I manually report ACTUAL start and end time of every backup/archive
in an MS-Project sheet, 1 server = 1 task for MSProject. Hope to find better
tool with Tivoli Decision Support for Storage Management in V4.1.

René Lambelet
Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
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> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Hicks [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:13 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Time line reporting
> 
> I'd like to export the times that I have both backup and admin schedules
> running to be able to better optimize the schedules. Any tips on exporting
> this to another program. Just the times and their duration.
> 
> Steve



"Name","ADSM Server Name","Start Time","Process 
ID","Type","Bytes","Objects","State","Rate","End 
Time","Duration","Errors","Source","Target","Last Update"
"02-27-2001_23:28:13_667","gassrv01","2/27/01 11:28PM",667,"MIGRATION","56.81 
GB",10797,"COMPLETED",11537154,"2/28/01 0:56AM","01:28:08",0,"GBNF02","","2/28/01 
8:01AM"

Re: TSM Operation Reporting Email notification

[Magura, Curtis]

I was using the HTML version of the reports and they have stopped
showing up in my Inbox also. The reports are created and I can manually
e-mail them by right-clicking and using the send option. I was playing
around with the option to keep multiple web page versions of the reports
about the same time that the e-mail based version quit showing up. Can't
say there is a connection other then I was trying various combinations
of things.

I did have multiple web page links showing up on the default.htm page. I
was trying different things and changing run times. Now only one web
version shows up.

This is on the driver7 version.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Joe Howell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM Operation Reporting Email notification

I seem to have the same problem, only I'm trying to send the HTML report
rather than text.  I hadn't reported it yet because I wasn't sure that I
wasn't the problem. :-)

Are you running driver 7?

Remco Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,

I've setup TSM Operational Reporting to send me a text version of a
daily
report. Unfortunately, this mail never arrives. Other mail, like
notification of a missed schedule does arrive, and also, the 'send
email'
option for the report works. I do see the text verion of the report in
the
working dir of TSM operation reporting, so I know it is generated.

Has anybody managed to set this up?

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didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams


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Shelter Insurance Companies
Columbia, MO

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Encryption Question

[Magura, Curtis]

Solaris 2.8 / Client 5.1.5.14



We have one node that the customer has requested that we use the
encryption feature on. Two questions:

1) Once the key has been set does it ever change like the client
password? We are using the save option for the key. From the manual --
The encryption key password is saved to the TSM.PWD file in encrypted
format.

2) If we lose the TSM.PWD file for whatever reason best I can tell
there is no way to restore data to the client. If the key never changes
that we could copy that file somewhere else and copy it back in the
event that it was lost. If it changes on some interval then obviously
the copy of that file will also need to be refreshed. Thoughts on
how to use this feature and at the same time ensure that you don't lose
the key and as a result access to all of the clients data.



Curt Magura

Lockheed Martin EIS

Orlando Fla.

321-235-1203

Re: Expiration problem with TSM 5.1.1.1 on AIX 4.3.3

[Magura, Curtis]

Yep - seeing the same thing. We have three servers. Two are the same config
you mentioned. The thrid one is hosted on win2k. Also seeing the same
symptoms. Please post back to the list results of the PMR.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 4:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Expiration problem with TSM 5.1.1.1 on AIX 4.3.3


Hello,
after one day I got the first more severe problem. I started expiration and
afterward migration for a storage pool. Later I started migration for
another storage pool. Aftwards I noticed that the expiration and the other
migration processes have stopped advancing their counters. Cancelling the
processes doesn't help. For the expiration I get ANR0819I Cancel in
progress. For the last migration process the cancel was accepted, but there
was no effect. Everything else (Backup sessions, admin commands) seems to
work.Colleagues from a neighbour university have this problem as well. They
say after one hour they get an error message and the processes resume work.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a circumvention for this?

I created PMR 88563, branch 070, country 724.
Best regards
Gerhard
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Regional Computing Center tel.   ++49/711/685 5806
University of Stuttgart   fax:   ++49/711/682357
Allmandring 30a
D 70550
Stuttgart
Germany

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

[Magura, Curtis]

Look's like XP is reported as 5.01.

tsm: GASSRV01>q node angelor-xp f=d

 Node Name: ANGELOR-XP
  Platform: WinNT
   Client OS Level: 5.01
Client Version: Version 5, Release 1, Level 1.0

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?


W2K is known as NT 5.0 to TSM.  Do a "q node blah f=d"
for your client node on TSM server and see what it comes up
as.  Haven't  had any XP clients yet to see what it is known as.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/02 08:21PM >>>
> Hi Fred,
>
> I just took a v4.2.2.12 AIX server to v5.1.1.6 last Saturday.
> All I can say is 'not pretty'. This is due to the SYSTEM OBJECT
> problem. If you don't know what this is, you will soon if you
> have WinXP and Win2K clients backing up to v4 and pre v5.1.1.6
> servers.

Does this problem only occur with WinXP and Win2K clients?  What about
Win9x and WinNT?

Either I don't have any Win2K/WinXP clients, or TSM does not set the
platform to Win2k/WinXP?  Are these OS's also known by some version
number
of NT?

>
> The basic problem is that TSM isn't expiring anything in the
> SYSTEM OBJECTs filespace. Some of our clients had over 20GB
> in these filespaces! Needless to say, the database blew up
> while trying to find out what was going on.
>
> To see if you have this problem, you can type in
>
> show version  "SYSTEM OBJECT" namet=uni > file
>
> (only use namet=uni if the filespace is unicode). Then
> check through the file and look for the number of occurrences
> of a file, say ROUTE.EXE. A normal SYSTEM OBJECT filespace,
> with four versions, shouldn't be over a gig.
>
> The good news is that v5.1.1.6 does NOT have the SYSTEM
> OBJECT problem and the new server is doing very well.
>
> I am writing up the post mortem on the conversion and will
> post to the list later this week (at the request of Tivoli
> level 2).
>
> Gretchen Thiele
> Princeton University
>
>

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
HOD Service Coordinator
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
TSM/ADSM Administrator
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Re: how to add tape to library?

[Magura, Curtis]

Alexander,

Take a look at the label libv command with the checkin parameter. That
should do the trick.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how to add tape to library?


I am unable to add a new tape to the library, and I just can't figure out
what I'm doing wrong. Can someone give me some tips? We've got an IBM 3575
L18 tape library, runing adsm server 3.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 machine. Tape
library has 2 drives in it (/dev/rmt0, /dev/rmt1). We have one library
named ITG-3575. We've got several failed tapes in the libray and I must
replace them with new good ones. The new ones are coming right out of a
Magstar MP tape box which is brand spanking new. Here's the commands I
entered, and yes, ive moved all data off the tape first.

# move all data off the tape, the remove it.
adsm> checkout libvolume ITG-3575 xx checklabel=no
adsm> reply 001

# define new tape volume
adsm> define volume ITG-3575TAPE 311E98 ACCESS=READWrite

# put in the new tape volume
adsm> checkin libvolume ITG-3575 311E98 status=private
adsm> reply #

the first two stages seem to work, but when i try the third stage i get
the following error:

ANR8335I 015: Verifying label of 3570 volume 3121CF in drive TAPEDRIVE1
(/dev/rmt1).
ANR8353E 015: I/O error reading label of volume in drive TAPEDRIVE1
(/dev/rmt1).
ANR8786I 016: Remove 3570 volume from entry/exit port;   insert volume
3121CF R/W into entry/exit port of library ITG-3575 within 60 minute(s);
issue 'REPLY' along with the request ID when ready.

so i try it again and again and it tries verifying the tape in each of the
2 drives, but it never verifys so i just have to cancel the process. PAIN
IN THE ARS!!!

so, the messages manual says to make sure the tape is inserted correctly,
which it is, then make sure the volume has been labeled using the dsmlabel
command, which is wierd cause i though you only use that command on the
drives not on tapes???, and then it say to check if the DEVICE parameter
is correct on the DEFINE DRIVE command, which im pretty sure it is.

our library has been working for years, but ive just never needed to
replace tapes until now. so im pretty certain the drives work fine, i mean
we backup and restore data just fine, all the time. drives must be okay.
so i must be making some error in my commands to insert the new tape.

any ideas?

thanks in advance,

alex
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Re: Very long backup/So many files

[Magura, Curtis]

We have also see similar hangs both with the Journal and the timeouts in
general. Have idletime set to 60 minutes. Found that a stop and restart of
the Journal service would get the Journal going again but eventually
it(Journal service) hangs again. Also we have not been able to get past 10
drives using the Journal. On our largest servers we have 15+ drives so we
don't get everything out of the Journal that we could. When it works it is
great. Just doesn't appear to be quite ready for prime time yetor at
least for us.

Clients:
5.1.1 (NT4 SP6A and Win2K SP2 and SP3)
Compaq 6500 / 4 P3 XEON 500 MHz processors
2GB RAM
100 MB Full Duplex
SCSI Attached to ESS disk
4.5 - 5.5 million objects depending on which machine you ask about.
Average backup 120-130 GB a night per client.

Server
5.1.1.4
Etherchannel using 2*100mb NIC'S
RS/6000 H70 4*340MHz CPU 3 GB RAM
SSA based storage pool and database
3494/3590 for tapepools

We have pretty much the same setup in another data center except it's all GB
NIC's. See the same thing. Been watching the list to see how 5.1.1.6
looks. Plan is to get everything sync'd backup to the same level across all
of the machines and data centers. If that doesn't help then I guess it's
time to call the support center and dig deeper.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: William Rosette [mailto:Bill_Rosette@;PAPAJOHNS.COM]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Very long backup/So many files


We have had to turn our Journaling off of 2 NT servers, one an NT 4.0 box,
and the other a Win 2000 box.  Both are using 5.1.0.1 TSM clients.  The
reason we had to turn off was that the server would hang in the middle of
backing up.  Since turning off this has not been a problem.  We seem to
think that the memory on the client had something to do with the millions
of files that were trying to get journaled.  All other NT boxes do not have
any Journaling problems. These are the only 2 turned off.  And it is not
5.1's fault because we have some 5.1's running on other clients.

Thank You,
Bill Rosette
Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
WWJD



  "Mr. Lindsay
  Morris"  To:
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   Subject:  Re: Very long
backup/So many files
  Sent by: "ADSM:
  Dist Stor
  Manager"
  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  .EDU>


  10/25/2002 11:42
  AM
  Please respond to
  lmorris






Gee, I'd disagree...
this example has a small percentage: 12,000 files backed up out of 4
million - but it still took a long time because it had to walk through 4
million files to FIND those 12,000 that needed to be backed up.

The walk-through-4-million is exactly what the Journal-based backup
prevents.

-
Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com 
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Gianluca Mariani1
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Very long backup/So many files
>
>
> if the percentage of changed files to be backed up from a client is >5%
> then traditional incremental is preferrable.
> no other big discriminating points.
>
> Cordiali saluti
> Gianluca Mariani
> Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma
> Via Sciangai 53, Roma
>  phones : +39(0)659664598
>+393351270554 (mobile)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> --
>
> "The people of Krikkit,are, well, you know, they're just a bunch of real
> sweet guys, you know, who just happen to want to kill everybody. Hell, I
> feel the same way some mornings..."
>
>
>
>  Jon Evans
>IBURTON.COM>
To
>  Sent by: "ADSM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Dist Stor
cc
>  Manager"
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bcc
>  ST.EDU>
>
Subject
> Re: Very long backup/So many files
>  25/10/2002
>  16.54
>
>
>  Please respond
>  to "ADSM: Dist
>   Stor Manager"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Can anyone please explain the disadvantages of using journal-based
backup?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Gianluca Mariani1 [mailto:gianluca_mariani@;IT.IBM.COM]
> Sent: 25 October 2002 15:47
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Very long backup/So many files
>
> what platform are you running(OS on client and server)?
> code levels(client & server)?
> is journaled backup in use?
> how is the client connected to the server (what network)?
>
> Cordiali 

Re: TSM 5.1.5.1 backups last night

[Magura, Curtis]

Geoffrey,

Any chance that expiration is running during this time? We saw some similar
messages ( ANR0538I A resource waiter has been aborted ) with 5.1.1.1. Ended
up at 5.1.1.4 for now which cleared that up. Been watching your comments and
others before going to the latest and greatest 5.X.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
Office 321-235-1203
Pager 888-525-8095


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL@;SAIC.COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM 5.1.5.1 backups last night


For all of those interested in following how this version is doing I'd like
to pass on some things I found in my backups last night.

1.I had a missed backup that I found had the scheduler stopped. So
I'm not sure why I see this in the log for it.

10/31/2002 01:41:51  ANR0406I Session 7978 started for node 
  (WinNT) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(2857)).

10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 79.  Reason
32.
10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR0480W Session 7973 for node  (WinNT)
  terminated - connection with client severed.

10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 81.  Reason
32.
10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 61.  Reason
32.
10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR0480W Session 7978 for node  (WinNT)
  terminated - connection with client severed.

10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 79.  Reason
32.
10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR0480W Session 7974 for node  (WinNT)
  terminated - connection with client severed.

10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 61.  Reason
32.
10/31/2002 01:42:03  ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 81.  Reason
32.

2.There were 7 failed backups, and from what I can tell, all show
this error in the actlog.
10/30/2002 23:52:14  ANR0538I A resource waiter has been aborted.

10/30/2002 23:52:14  ANR0918E Inventory Query Backup for node XXX

  terminated - lock conflict.

3. All 7 did send data and show this in the log but also show the error
code below after the backup report.
10/31/2002 00:06:10  ANR2579E Schedule CLIENT_M-F in domain NT_DOM for
node
   failed (return code 4).


4.I had a missed backup that started shows this in the log, then
reported missed.
10/30/2002 22:00:40  ANR0406I Session 7113 started for node 
(SUN
SOLARIS) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (58130)).
10/30/2002 22:56:07  ANR0406I Session 7505 started for node 
(SUN
  SOLARIS) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (58207)).

10/31/2002 00:03:52  ANR0482W Session 7505 for node  (SUN

  SOLARIS) terminated - idle for more than 60
minutes.

5.There was yet one more that reported missed, that had the
scheduler running, did not answer up, but then shows this in the log. By the
way this schedule runs from 8PM to 10PM.

10/30/2002 20:00:28  ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact
client
   using type 1 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1501).

10/30/2002 20:00:28  ANR8214E Session open with xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx failed
due to
  connection refusal.

AND LOTS IN BETWEEN

10/30/2002 21:59:53  ANR8214E Session open with xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx failed
due to
  connection refusal.

10/30/2002 22:00:01  ANR2578W Schedule NOTES_M-F in domain NOTES_DOM for
node
   has missed its scheduled start up window.
10/30/2002 22:04:24  ANR0406I Session 7284 started for node 
  (WinNT) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (4156)).

10/30/2002 22:04:24  ANR2507I Schedule NOTES_M-F for domain NOTES_DOM
started
  at 10/29/02 20:00:00 for node  completed
  successfully at 10/30/02 22:04:24.

10/30/2002 22:04:24  ANR0403I Session 7284 ended for node 
  (WinNT).

10/30/2002 22:04:24  ANR0406I Session 7285 started for node 
  (WinNT) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (4158)).

10/30/2002 22:04:24  ANR0403I Session 7285 ended for node 
  (WinNT).

10/30/2002 22:04:24  ANR0406I Session 7286 started for node 
  (WinNT) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (4159)).

10/30/2002 22:04:26  ANR0403I Session 7286 ended for node 
  (WinNT).

10/30/2002 22:04:26  ANR0406I Session 7287 started for node 
  (WinNT) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 5(4161)).

10/30/2002 22:04:26  ANR0403I Session 7287 ended for node 
  (WinNT).

10/30/2002 22:04:26  ANR0406I Session 

Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool

[Magura, Curtis]

This one has caught us a couple of times since moving to V5. We have a
series of "q" commands that we run daily and then e-mail the results. Just
added "q path" to the report that used do only do a "q drive" earlier this
week.

tsm: GASSRV01>q drive

Library Name Drive Name   Device Type On-Line
  --- ---
GBG3494  DRIVE1   3590Yes
GBG3494  DRIVE2   3590Yes
GBG3494  DRIVE3   3590Yes
GBG3494  DRIVE4   3590Yes
GBG3494  DRIVE5   3590Yes
GBG3494  DRIVE6   3590Yes

tsm: GASSRV01>q path

Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line
NameType
--- --- --- --- ---
GASSRV01SERVER  GBG3494 LIBRARY Yes
GASSRV01SERVER  DRIVE1  DRIVE   Yes
GASSRV01SERVER  DRIVE2  DRIVE   Yes
GASSRV01SERVER  DRIVE3  DRIVE   Yes
GASSRV01SERVER  DRIVE4  DRIVE   Yes
GASSRV01SERVER  DRIVE5  DRIVE   Yes
GASSRV01SERVER  DRIVE6  DRIVE   Yes

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:stapleto@;BERBEE.COM]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
Davidson, Becky
> One of your drives is offline.  Try bringing that back online and see how
> things go.  You only have 2 drives and if the other is busy then it will
> fail.

Don't forget that, now with version 5.x, you have to check the PATH as well
as the drive.

Run Q PATH and see if that shows anything offline.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE

Restore of Intel Cluster

[Magura, Curtis]

We just went through a bare metal restore of a member of an Intel Cluster.
We have recently been working through some test cases of restoring Win2K
clients and in the testing we have done so far everything has tested out
okay. This is the first time we needed to do this on a member of a cluster.
The bad part is this is the real deal not a testShame on us!

The basic restore worked just fine and the machine is back up. The problem
that we are having is that the machine can't rejoin the cluster. If there is
anything regarding any additional steps in the TSM manuals sure can't find
it! Can anyone point us to any additional steps regarding getting this
machine to re-join the cluster?

Client Win2K Advanced Server
TSM Client 5.1.1
TSM Server 5.1.1.1 (AIX 4.3.3)

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203

Re: Journaling

[Magura, Curtis]

Geoffrey,

Similar to what we see. In our case just plain old SCSI connected devices so
I can take out all of the various SAN questions from your example. When it
(journaling) works it's great! But we have nights where the backup will
fail. If we stop the TSM Journal Service and restart it the backup will run.
There are times when the Journaling Service won't stop or gets and error
when it is trying to stop. Also have had it stop successfully and then when
trying to restart it will fail stating the service is already active when
based on the Services GUI it isn't running. This is on 5.1.1 NT4 SP6
clients. I haven't taken this to support yet. It's on my list just looking
for time to collect some additional data and open a call!

We have three Intel file servers that are similar in size.
4.5 - 5 million files spread over 20 different drives. Different issue is
that we can only setup the Journal on 10 drives or so. After that we get an
error.
Typically 120-130 GB per night backed up per client.
Journaling on - right around 8 hours - If we could Journal all of the drives
I would expect this time to go down even more.
Journaling off - 12 + hours.

Server - AIX 4.3.3 ML10 / TSM 5.1.1.4

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
321-235-1203


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL@;SAIC.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Journaling


This journaling thing, when working, is definitely a help. I must say though
that in this specific case it has been mighty strange. I set this up back in
October and it did not kick in on this SAN disk with the 4+ million files
right away. But there was an entry on 11/2 that pointed to a completion, I
could tell from the amount of files inspected and the entry "using journal
on g$". Then all of a sudden for about a week it stopped.

I called support, sent all the files and was told it doesn't work with SAN
attached storage. After some emails from all of you I decided to re-open
this ticket, which I did. In the mean time I've been looking at the logs and
for the past 2 backups it's now working again. Don't ask me how.

I'm going to respond to support accordingly when they call me, and send them
all the files I have, again. I'd like to see if they can find a reason for
the 6 day break if possible. I'd also like to know, when in the log I sent
them it clearly shows it was working on the 2nd, why they'd tell me it's not
supported on SAN attached disk.

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154


> -Original Message-
> From: Chris Murphy [mailto:cmurphy@;IDL.STATE.ID.US]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Journaling
>
> Geoff,
>
> Clients: NT4 SP6 and Win2k SP2/3 - TSM client 5.1.1.0
> TSM Server: Win2k SP3 - V5.1.1.0
>
> FWIW, we currently have 3 servers that fit within Zlatko's #4 category.
> Between all the servers there is about 4+ million files and about 1TB of
> data on an HP disk array.  Journaling  is on and works great.  We average
> about 1-5% changed files each night and backups typically take about 15-45
> minutes for all 3 servers!
>
> And I believe Zlatko is correct on his categorizing.  Windows "sees" disk
of
> type #1,2,3,4&5 as local.  (#5 is a bit of a special case however...)  It
> cannot tell the difference between a DASD SCSI/RAID disk, and a
SAN-attached
> FC array.  Windows "speaks" SCSI to the SAN disks the same as it does to
> DASD's and the HBA simply handles the FC encapsulation and transport
(since
> FC really just does exactly that: encapsulates the SCSI commands).  OS
> has/needs no knowledge of it.  I would call up support again, as it SHOULD
> work.
>
> My two bits...
>
> Chris Murphy
> IT Network Analyst
> ID Dept. of Lands
> Office: (208) 334-0293
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM 4.2.1

[Magura, Curtis]

Well Have to say we are running at 4.2.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 and a smaller
Win2K box. The AIX box has a 3494 and 3590 drives. We did not see any of the
problems mentioned. We have upgraded a bunch of clients and did see slower
performance on the overall system. Did see a flurry of comments on this a
week or so ago but not mentioned since. Any other comments on overall 4.2.x
client performance?

Not endorsing 4.2.1 just passing on what we have seen so far.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1


On 22-Oct-01 Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:

> For all those who are thinking of upgrading to 4.2.1, my opinion is
> don't. I have been up on it for 10 days and have already experienced 3
> crashes. I also have a tape problem that I'm told was supposed to have
> been fixed. I have 2 PMR's open, both at level 2. I'm on AIX 4.3.3 and
> not sure if other platforms have had similar problems.

Re: TSM 4.2.1

[Magura, Curtis]

Maybe I should run out and but a lottery ticket!!

Looks okay -

[root@gassrv01]/tsm/macros$ mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -q C -s 0193| wc -l
 259

tsm: GASSRV01>select library_name, status,count(*) from libvolumes group by
libr
ary_name,status

LIBRARY_NAME   STATUS  Unnamed[3]
-- -- ---
GBG3494Private548
GBG3494Scratch259

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1


On 22-Oct-01 Magura, Curtis wrote:
> Well Have to say we are running at 4.2.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 and a
> smaller Win2K box. The AIX box has a 3494 and 3590 drives. We did not
> see any of the problems mentioned.

You are a lucky person;-)

But try a  "select volume_name from libvolumes where status='Scratch'" and
count your TSM-scratch volumes, and do a "mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -q C -s
012E|wc -l" and see if they are in sync (012E if you defined your library
with PRIVATECATegory 300 en SCRATCHCATegory 301, otherwise take a look with
"mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -q A" to find your categories).

Cheers,
Henk.

Re: TDP for SQL Server remote control?

[Magura, Curtis]

You can use a product like Timbuktu or if you're running Win2K the Terminal
Server components. Either one will allow remote access to the desktop of
another machine.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Jeff Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TDP for SQL Server remote control?


Has anyone figured out a method for accessing the TDP for SQL server
interfaces, GUI or CLI, from a workstation over a network/LAN?  We are
trying the TDP on a test server and our DBA would prefer to work with the
GUI interface from their desk versus walking to the SQL server machine in
our computer room. I wasn't sure if there was a way I could map a drive,
set the right environment variables, etc so they could use the TDP GUI
and/or CLI remotely.  Any ideas?

Thanks
Jeff Connor
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp

4.2.1.7 Server and DRM

[Magura, Curtis]

Installed the 4.2.1.7 server yesterday on AIX 4.3.3 server. Going through
and checking/verifying all of license info is back and working correctly. We
are failing on the DRM license which we really did purchase. Don't seem to
have the DRM.lic file to correct this. We went from 4.1.x.x to 4.2.0 to
4.2.0.1 to 4.2.1.7. Somewhere in all of that it appears we have lost the
file. Was I supposed to install something "extra". Understand this is a
feature that you need to purchase. Does it now come on a separate CD?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM

[Magura, Curtis]

Did the trick.

Thanks!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Richard Cowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM


> -Original Message-
> From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM
>
>
> We are failing on the DRM license which we really did purchase. Don't
> seem to have the DRM.lic file to correct this. We went from 4.1.x.x to
> 4.2.0 to 4.2.0.1 to 4.2.1.7. Somewhere in all of that it appears we
> have lost the file...

Known problem:

Solution, uninstall tivoli.xxx.license.xxx, then reinstall. Worked for me.

Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM

[Magura, Curtis]

See my reply back to the list yesterday. I was able to re-install the
license rte and cert stuff from the 4.2.0 CD and all is well again. Did see
the DRM.lic info in the cert file but wasn't sure how to extract it without
going through installp again.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 7:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM


Just talked to the support center about this.  The .LIC files are only on
the 4.2.0 CD based on what I could determine.  Still researching.

-Original Message-
From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM


Installed the 4.2.1.7 server yesterday on AIX 4.3.3 server. Going through
and checking/verifying all of license info is back and working correctly. We
are failing on the DRM license which we really did purchase. Don't seem to
have the DRM.lic file to correct this. We went from 4.1.x.x to 4.2.0 to
4.2.0.1 to 4.2.1.7. Somewhere in all of that it appears we have lost the
file. Was I supposed to install something "extra". Understand this is a
feature that you need to purchase. Does it now come on a separate CD?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: TSM client 4.1.2.12 W2K

[Magura, Curtis]

We also went from 4.1.2.12 to 4.2.0 without problems. When we went to
4.2.1.15 we started seeing problems that a memory address was unreadable.
Haven't called support yet. Even though 4.2.0 isn't where we want to be we
backed those machines down to that level so we have something that will run
until the problem can be worked.

Server is 4.2.1.7 (AIX)
Clients are Win2K SP2

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM client 4.1.2.12 W2K


Had no problem installing client 4.2.0.0 on to that type of config. Was also
at the time running server 4.1.0.3 (NT) and using the 4.2.0.0 client without
problems.

You probably already know this, but for citrix you need to install using
add/remove programs...

Joe Cascanette
The Cumis Group Limited

-Original Message-
From: Brian L. Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM client 4.1.2.12 W2K


 Does anyone have experience running the TSM 4.1.2.12 client on a W2K box
which also runs CITRIX? My client support group is having some difficulty
installing this client version on this platform.

 Any help would be appreciated.

 Thanks,
Brian



Brian L. Nick
Systems Technician - Storage Solutions
The Phoenix Companies Inc.
100 Bright Meadow Blvd
Enfield CT. 06082-1900

E-MAIL:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PHONE:   (860)403-2281

Re: can't see drive E in tsm client.

[Magura, Curtis]

Can't speak to the fiber part but we are running NT4 and Win2k file servers
with nothing but "ESS Drives". TSM works just fine. At this point we are all
SCSI attached.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Ofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't see drive E in tsm client.


Hi All,

I have connected a Windows2 file server to an ESS box throw fiber cable.
I have a new drive in the file server e:\. I would like to backup the drive
with the TSM client. but there is no drive E:\ in the backup\restore client.
do I need additional software for that file server to be able to backup a
drive  that is an ESS drive ?. as far as the TSM client it's another drive
on that file server. no?

I have a TSM server ver 4.1.4 and a TSM client cer 4.1.

Thanks.
Ofer Ccc.

Re: TSM 4.2.1 Journal Settings

[Magura, Curtis]

Pete -

Is there a limit to the number of drives that can be journaled? It's been a
few weeks since I tried so I don't have the exact error message but I'd say
somewhere around 10-12 and I wasn't able to add any more drives. We are
going after good sized file servers15+ drives at 50GB each per server. I
would think that is the type of environment where the journal would really
shine.

We have had limited success so far with the Journal service. When it works,
it's great, but not a lot of confidence in it yet. The other issue that we
have had is running with the system account. Just floods the NT event logs.
Changed to running as the local admin account and the messages clear up.
>From what I found in one of the Redbooks it implied that system account
should work.

Thoughts?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Pete Tanenhaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM 4.2.1 Journal Settings


There isn't any enforced limit to the NotifyBuffer setting but for
practical purposes it shouldn't be bigger
than 4 meg.

The file system monitor portion of the journal service records real time
file system change notifications
into a preallocated buffer (a requirement of the Microsoft API used to
monitor the file system) so there is
a finite limit to the volume of activity the monitor is capable of
processing.

Basically if the notifications arrive faster than the monitor can process
them the notification buffer will
overflow and the journal will be invalidated and a normal full incremental
will have to be performed
before Journal Based Backup can continue.

That having been said, our (TSM development and System Test) testing has
shown that most change
activity generated in a typical production environment can be journaled
with a reasonable size notification
buffer (4 meg or less).

We have written test programs  generating  very large amounts of change
activity in very
short windows in time which consistently overflow the notification buffer,
but we have come to
the conclusion that these programs do not really simulate the change
activity of a
typical production environment.

Copying or deleting very large directory trees may also generate enough
change activity
to overflow the buffer.

Journal Based Backup is most beneficial in environments with very large
file systems which
generate a small to moderate (5 to 25 percent) amount of change activity on
a regular basis.

Environments which generate very large amounts of change activity
(especially mass
copy and delete operations) in very short periods of time are probably not
going to
benefit from Journal Based Backup.

Hope this helps answer your questions and please post any further ones you
may have.


Pete Tanenhaus
Tivoli Storage Solutions Software Development
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tieline: 320.8778, external: 607.754.4213

"Those who refuse to challenge authority are condemned to conform to it"

-- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San Jose/IBM on
01/04/2002 04:39 PM ---

"Scott, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/04/2002 11:15:57 AM

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

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


To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:TSM 4.2.1 Journal Settings



Good Mornin' *SMer's,

Does anyone know what's the max setting for the NotifyBufferSize= in the
tsmjbbd.ini? We're running the Journal Service on a TSM 4.2.1 Win2k box
with
3.5GB of RAM. We have 2 filesystems besides the O/S that are about 280GB
apiece comprised of 2.3 million objects apiece. I tried a touch command on
25% of the filesystem to simulate change to the files to populate the
journal but received the following error during the file change process:

01/04/2002 10:07:00 psFsMonitorThread(tid 2688): Notification buffer
overrun
for monitored FS 'R:\'.

I tried changing the NotifyBufferSize= 0x320 but didn't work.

Anyone have any ideas or know the max setting?

Thanks,

Brian Scott
EDS - Enterprise Distributed Capabilities
MS 3278
Troy, MI 48098

* phone: 248-265-4596 (8-365)
* mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

[Magura, Curtis]

Client:
O/S - NT4 SP6A
TSM 4.2.1.20

Server:
AIX 4.3.3 ML6
TSM 4.2.1.7

We have one NT client the has degraded terribly over the past couple of
months. We are in the midst of upgrading clients to .20 and the hope was it
would help. No luck.

Here's the weird part. If I logon to the machine and run dsmc incr the
backup performance is about what we expect. Last night we backed up 155.56
GB in 09:05:16. This is an Intel file server with a tad over 4.8 million
files on it. If the TSM Scheduler Service starts the backup it takes more
than 24 hours to complete! And even more weird it used to run using the
scheduler just fine. Standard caveatsnobody has changed anything or
so they all say!!! Except of course the upgrade to the newer client that I
mentioned. I also deleted and recreated the TSM Scheduler Service No
difference. The machine is set give performance preference to background
tasks per right clicking on properties of My Computer.

I'm at a loss as to why the scheduler performance in unacceptable. Earlier
today I setup an "AT" job to start up the dsmc incr command to see how it
would run. Appears to be running at the same pace as if it was started via
the Scheduler service.

I'll take any help on this one!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

[Magura, Curtis]

Tried Wanda's idea last night. Backup completed in what we expect the normal
time to be. This is using my logon (admin auth on the local NT resource
domain) and opening a window with the command dsmc sched.

Not sure what this tells us though I'm thinking this is still in the
foreground vs. an NT service? Starting to get way over my NT skills at this
point!

I've asked some of the local Intel support folks about dispatching
priorities and if/where they can be set. Are any of the NT savvy folks on
the list aware of anyplace that can be set on NT4?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery


I have no clue; but one difference in running dsmc as yourself and via the
scheduler is that you are running under different accounts.

What happens if you run the scheduler under your own account?


-Original Message-----
From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery


Client:
O/S - NT4 SP6A
TSM 4.2.1.20

Server:
AIX 4.3.3 ML6
TSM 4.2.1.7

We have one NT client the has degraded terribly over the past couple of
months. We are in the midst of upgrading clients to .20 and the hope was it
would help. No luck.

Here's the weird part. If I logon to the machine and run dsmc incr the
backup performance is about what we expect. Last night we backed up 155.56
GB in 09:05:16. This is an Intel file server with a tad over 4.8 million
files on it. If the TSM Scheduler Service starts the backup it takes more
than 24 hours to complete! And even more weird it used to run using the
scheduler just fine. Standard caveatsnobody has changed anything or
so they all say!!! Except of course the upgrade to the newer client that I
mentioned. I also deleted and recreated the TSM Scheduler Service No
difference. The machine is set give performance preference to background
tasks per right clicking on properties of My Computer.

I'm at a loss as to why the scheduler performance in unacceptable. Earlier
today I setup an "AT" job to start up the dsmc incr command to see how it
would run. Appears to be running at the same pace as if it was started via
the Scheduler service.

I'll take any help on this one!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

[Magura, Curtis]

Robin - The problem was there before we upgraded so 4.2.1.20 didn't
createunfortunately it didn't help fix it either! We did an uninstall
before installing the newer version attempting to "refresh" everything.

Paul - "What Resourceutilization number are you using?"

That client is set to 5.


Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

[Magura, Curtis]

We are running with the default of no per the TSM Performance and Tuning
guide that I'm looking at.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Dirk Billerbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery


Hi Curtis,

do you have LARGECOMMBUFFERS set to YES in the dsm.opt? If so change it to
NO and try it once again.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
Dirk Billerbeck


Dirk Billerbeck
GE CompuNet Kiel
Enterprise Computing Solutions
Am Jaegersberg 20, 24161 Altenholz (Kiel), Germany
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Robin - The problem was there before we upgraded so 4.2.1.20 didn't
createunfortunately it didn't help fix it either! We did an uninstall
before installing the newer version attempting to "refresh" everything.

Paul - "What Resourceutilization number are you using?"

That client is set to 5.


Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

[Magura, Curtis]

Thanks Dirk.

TCPWindowsize is set to 63.
We do run with Shareddynamic but the retry count is set to one.

The part that just baffles me is that all of the various parameters that
have been suggested by the list are (or least should be) the same. It's the
same dsm.opt file, same disk, same processor, same NICetc. Only
difference that I know of is of course foreground vs. background which makes
me think it's a Windows issue as Wanda suggestedJust don't know where
else to look at this point.

I'll have to have another look at the network number. Maybe over the weekend
when I can afford to let it run all day. Usually I cancel the Scheduler
session and rerun interactively so we can get a current backup.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Dirk Billerbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery


Hi Curtis,

what is the value of the TCPWINDOWSIZE parameter in the dsm.opt? According
to Tivoli for Windows NT it shouldn't be greater than 63 (KB). Other values
aren't supported by NT and would cause the TSM client to use the default
value of 32.

And another thing you can look for (in the dsmsched.log): Do you have set
serialization (in the backup copy groups) set to Shared Static or Shared
Dynamic? If you have and there are many retries during the backup that could
explain the poor backup performance.

My last tip: look for the network data transfer rate of the scheduled client
backup. If it is low and the network transfer time is high it could mean
that you have some network problems (and not necesseraly with TSM). On the
other hand a high network data transfer rate would rather indicate a local
client problem.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
Dirk Billerbeck


Dirk Billerbeck
GE CompuNet Kiel
Enterprise Computing Solutions
Am Jaegersberg 20, 24161 Altenholz (Kiel), Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 117, Fax: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 190,
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We are running with the default of no per the TSM Performance and Tuning
guide that I'm looking at.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Dirk Billerbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery


Hi Curtis,

do you have LARGECOMMBUFFERS set to YES in the dsm.opt? If so change it to
NO and try it once again.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
Dirk Billerbeck


Dirk Billerbeck
GE CompuNet Kiel
Enterprise Computing Solutions
Am Jaegersberg 20, 24161 Altenholz (Kiel), Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 117, Fax: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 190,
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Robin - The problem was there before we upgraded so 4.2.1.20 didn't
createunfortunately it didn't help fix it either! We did an uninstall
before installing the newer version attempting to "refresh" everything.

Paul - "What Resourceutilization number are you using?"

That client is set to 5.


Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

FW: Antwort: Re: low bandwitdth and big files

[Magura, Curtis]

I'll throw in a slightly different twist. Maybe it has been in the thread
already but I missed it. We have the majority of clients running without
compression. We also provide backup services for some smaller satellite
sites where we do have client compression on. Same story Low bandwidth
connections.

In both cases the data all ends up at the same tape driveswhich of
course have compression active.

So is this a bad thing... Can't say, but I'm interested to hear comments
back. It seems to make sense to activate the compression on the clients as
required. At the same time it makes sense to have the hardware compression
active.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: low bandwitdth and big files


Nick,

I have client compression turned on also due to slow network (have no
choice). But no one has been able to answer the following questions
definitively:

1. Am I potentially doubling the size of certain files in the stg pool by
running multiple compression algorithms.?

2. By turning off DEVCLASS compression, is that effectively disabling
hardware compression performed by my tape device (IBM 3590 TAPE Device /
Cartridge)

3. If client compression and hardware compression are turned on, and
hardware compression isn't really buying me anything... won't the attempt at
hardware compression prevent streaming?  I think it will.

I'm looking for YES/NO answers with a valid explanation.  Anyone?

Regards, Joe


-Original Message-
From: Nicholas Cassimatis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: low bandwitdth and big files


A long while back, I had 36 boxes of the following config: Pentium 100's,
128MB RAM, 16Mbit Token Ring, running OS/2 2.11 with Lan Server 4, Notes
4.1, backing up mail files as flat files.  Turned client side compression
on, backup window went from 4 hours to 1.25 hours.  I cut the data sent over
the wire down by 66%, and got a corresponding reduction in the backup time.
My machines were effectively offline for the backup window, due to the
network being saturated, so the fact they were also CPU bound really didn't
matter.

It all depends on the config.  The worst you could do is to test a little,
see what happens.

Oh, my library was a 3494 with 2xB11 drives in it.  I kept utilizing the
same number of tapes, but the capacity at full went from around 28GB to
11GB, as would be expected.

Nick Cassimatis
Technical Team Lead
e-Business Backup/Recovery Services
919-363-8894   T/L 223-8965
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Today is the tomorrow of yesterday.

Background / Foreground Performance

[Magura, Curtis]

Started a thread last week regarding a problem we were having with an NT4
client not completing in a timely fashion if we contacted it via the TSM
Scheduler service. Got lots of ideas from the list on things to check but
have not been able to nail this down yet.

Surprise...Surprise - We now see it on 3 different TSM clients. They are all
NT4 SP6A 4.2.1.20. Two different TSM servers involved, both 4.2.1.20,  AIX
4.3.3. These are at two different locations so that along with the fact that
it does perform fine in the foreground, takes things like the network,
NIC's, and all of those other pieces along the way of getting the data from
the client to the server out of the picture. Or at least I think it does.
And we have 80-90 other clients that run just fineat the same level.

Still open to ideas anyone may have.Opening a call with Tivoli first
thing Thursday morning!

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: Select Stmts. in TSM

[Magura, Curtis]

Hey Wanda,

If this does what I think it does check out the Tivoli supplied script
fsnobackup. You can pass in any number you want to find filespaces with old
backup dates.

Example run fsnobackup 183. Results in seconds. Won't give you the amount of
space but you will see the old stuff if you're looking to do some
housekeeping.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Select Stmts. in TSM


Here is a script that does a join;  it's just std SQL syntax.

/* Show filespaces not backed up in 6 months w/space on server */
/* This query runs a long time; suggest writing output to a file */
/* Also strongly recommend running in commadelimited mode*/

select oc.node_name, oc.filespace_name as filespace, -
physical_mb as "mbytes  " , stgpool_name as stgpool, -
date(fs.backup_start) as bkup_date -
from occupancy oc, filespaces fs -
where oc.node_name=fs.node_name -
and oc.filespace_name=fs.filespace_name -
and cast((current_timestamp-backup_start)days as integer)>=183 - order by
stgpool_name, oc.node_name, oc.filespace_name

You can't do an "outer join" (whatever that is... I'm just learning this
stuff...)


Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott
Adams/Dilbert






-Original Message-
From: Peppers, Holly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Select Stmts. in TSM


Has anybody tried to do a join in the TSM tables?  I went looking thru the
help utility and the manuals, but did not see the syntax of how to do this.
Let me know please.  Thanks.

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Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida
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Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

[Magura, Curtis]

Guten Tag,

Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
Bis einschließlich 01.04.02 bin ich im Urlaub.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Andreas Willkomm

Purge Summary Table

[Magura, Curtis]

I plan to call the support center in a bit but thought I'd throw this out to
the experts and see if anyone has any thoughts.

TSM Server 4.2.1.7 on AIX 4.3.3 ML6.

The time source that we use for our machines got set to the year 2021
recently (that's another whole story!). As a result we have a record in the
summary table from 2021. We are in the process of setting up TDS reporting
and it turns out that is uses the summary table as part of the input. The
command below gets issues when you run the TDS loader.

03/28/2002 06:52:29  ANR2017I Administrator ISMBATCH issued command: DEFINE
CURSOR C3330188 SQL="SELECT * from SUMMARY where END_TIME >= '2021-08-18
06:02:19' order by END_TIME"

As a result a majority of the cubes that get built as part of TDS are empty.
We have been running with the summaryretention set to 30. I reset it to 0
hoping it would reset the table. No luck. Started and stopped TSM while it
was set to 0...still no luck.

Looking for a way to purge the record from the database. Here's the
offending record:

START_TIME: 2021-08-18 06:00:06.00
END_TIME: 2021-08-18 06:02:19.00
ACTIVITY: STGPOOL BACKUP
NUMBER: 440
ENTITY: BACKUPPOOL -> OFFSITE
COMMMETH:
ADDRESS:
SCHEDULE_NAME: COPY_BACKUPPOOL_OFFSITE
EXAMINED: 162
AFFECTED: 162
FAILED: 0
BYTES: 28143616
IDLE: 0
MEDIAW: 62
PROCESSES: 1
SUCCESSFUL: YES
VOLUME_NAME:
DRIVE_NAME:
LIBRARY_NAME:
LAST_USE:

Thoughts?

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305

Re: Purge Summary Table

[Magura, Curtis]

Ended up going to level2 support and we were able to edit the records back
to 2002. Interesting process. I've been out for a couple of days but I see
that the next problem is that TDS has stored the last entry it was using in
the summary table...So it is still issuing the query for records after 2021.

Kind of thought that might happen but it was to late last Friday to do
anything about it. Will be working with the folks that support the Oracle
database that is collecting all of the data in the morning. Hopefully it
won't take much to "fix" it.

Thanks for the different ideas.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Don France (TSMnews) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Purge Summary Table


Curtis,

Try setting summaryretention to 1, stop the server, change system date to 2
days later than the bad date, start dsmserv, ACCEPT DATE -- all of this with
sessions and schedules disabled, to prevent further records;  after purge
processing, stop the server, reset system date, start dsmserv, set retention
to desired interval, maybe 30 --- did you already do an ACCEPT DATE cmd
(after the accidental time-source problem)?

This sounds like you need a debug command to clear up;  did you get any help
from TSM Support folks?  I'd guess other folks have this problem, but might
not notice until they run an open-ended date on their query (like TDS does).

Regards,
Don

Don France
Technical Architect - Tivoli Storage Manager
Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.)
San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

- Original Message -----
From: "Magura, Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 5:28 AM
Subject: Purge Summary Table


> I plan to call the support center in a bit but thought I'd throw this out
to
> the experts and see if anyone has any thoughts.
>
> TSM Server 4.2.1.7 on AIX 4.3.3 ML6.
>
> The time source that we use for our machines got set to the year 2021
> recently (that's another whole story!). As a result we have a record in
the
> summary table from 2021. We are in the process of setting up TDS reporting
> and it turns out that is uses the summary table as part of the input. The
> command below gets issues when you run the TDS loader.
>
> 03/28/2002 06:52:29  ANR2017I Administrator ISMBATCH issued command:
DEFINE
> CURSOR C3330188 SQL="SELECT * from SUMMARY where END_TIME >= '2021-08-18
> 06:02:19' order by END_TIME"
>
> As a result a majority of the cubes that get built as part of TDS are
empty.
> We have been running with the summaryretention set to 30. I reset it to 0
> hoping it would reset the table. No luck. Started and stopped TSM while it
> was set to 0...still no luck.
>
> Looking for a way to purge the record from the database. Here's the
> offending record:
>
> START_TIME: 2021-08-18 06:00:06.00
> END_TIME: 2021-08-18 06:02:19.00
> ACTIVITY: STGPOOL BACKUP
> NUMBER: 440
> ENTITY: BACKUPPOOL -> OFFSITE
> COMMMETH:
> ADDRESS:
> SCHEDULE_NAME: COPY_BACKUPPOOL_OFFSITE
> EXAMINED: 162
> AFFECTED: 162
> FAILED: 0
> BYTES: 28143616
> IDLE: 0
> MEDIAW: 62
> PROCESSES: 1
> SUCCESSFUL: YES
> VOLUME_NAME:
> DRIVE_NAME:
> LIBRARY_NAME:
> LAST_USE:
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Curt Magura
> Lockheed Martin EIS
> Gaithersburg, Md.
> 301-240-6305

Re: latest client version for Windows

[Magura, Curtis]

We all know that 5.1.0.1 is the latestIs it the greatest? Time will tell
:)

Just downloaded and will be installing on a machine later today to play
around with it.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: latest client version for Windows


I am currently running 4.2.1.20 on most of my Windows servers, and have seen
a few messages about 4.2.1.30. Is this for another OS?. I looked at the ftp
site and it shows only 4.2.1.23 (patch for security problem).

I was planning to upgrade all my Window boxes and just want to make sure
that I am putting on the lastest and greatest...

Thanks

Joe

-Original Message-
From: Frank Kruse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Fri 4/12/2002 8:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: TSM db backup.



> Here is some additional information that may help in determining
my
> problem.  Thanks all.

Library:

tsm: TSM>q library f=d

  Library Name: DBTAPELIB
  Library Type: MANUAL
Device:
  Private Category:
  Scratch Category:
  External Manager:
Shared: No
   LanFree:
ObeyMountRetention:
   Primary Library Manager:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/22/02   12:28:40
--
Device Classes


tsm: TSM>q devc f=d

 Device Class Name: 8MMDB
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 0
   Device Type: 8MM
Format: DRIVE
 Est/Max Capacity (MB): 20,480.0
   Mount Limit: 1
  Mount Wait (min): 60
 Mount Retention (min): 10
  Label Prefix: TSMDBVOL
   Library: DBTAPELIB
 Directory:
   Server Name:
  Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/22/02   12:46:42

 Device Class Name: DBTRIGGER
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 0
   Device Type: FILE
Format: DRIVE
 Est/Max Capacity (MB): 4.0
   Mount Limit: 1
  Mount Wait (min):
 Mount Retention (min):
  Label Prefix:
   Library:
 Directory: /tsm/database/trigger
   Server Name:
  Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/05/02   09:42:53

 Device Class Name: DISK
Device Access Strategy: Random
Storage Pool Count: 3
   Device Type:
Format:
 Est/Max Capacity (MB):
   Mount Limit:
Mount Wait (min):
 Mount Retention (min):
  Label Prefix:
   Library:
 Directory:
   Server Name:
  Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
Last Update by (administrator):
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/04/02   12:35:15

-

Drives:


tsm: TSM>q drive f=d

Library Name: DBTAPELIB
  Drive Name: DBTAPEMT0
 Device Type: 8MM
 On-Line: Yes
  Device: /dev/mt0
 Element:
Allocated to:
  Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
   Last Update Date/Time: 03/22/02   14:04:12
Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE







> Frank,
>
> Have you checked to see if the tape was write-protected?
>
> Regards,
>
  

Re: latest client version for Windows

[Magura, Curtis]

Whoops Looks like Joe was talking about server vs. client levels.

Oh well - Still going to play with the new client later today.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: latest client version for Windows


We all know that 5.1.0.1 is the latestIs it the greatest? Time will tell
:)

Just downloaded and will be installing on a machine later today to play
around with it.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: latest client version for Windows


I am currently running 4.2.1.20 on most of my Windows servers, and have seen
a few messages about 4.2.1.30. Is this for another OS?. I looked at the ftp
site and it shows only 4.2.1.23 (patch for security problem).

I was planning to upgrade all my Window boxes and just want to make sure
that I am putting on the lastest and greatest...

Thanks

Joe

-Original Message-
From: Frank Kruse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Fri 4/12/2002 8:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: TSM db backup.



> Here is some additional information that may help in determining
my
> problem.  Thanks all.

Library:

tsm: TSM>q library f=d

  Library Name: DBTAPELIB
  Library Type: MANUAL
Device:
  Private Category:
  Scratch Category:
  External Manager:
Shared: No
   LanFree:
ObeyMountRetention:
   Primary Library Manager:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/22/02   12:28:40
--
Device Classes


tsm: TSM>q devc f=d

 Device Class Name: 8MMDB
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 0
   Device Type: 8MM
Format: DRIVE
 Est/Max Capacity (MB): 20,480.0
   Mount Limit: 1
  Mount Wait (min): 60
 Mount Retention (min): 10
  Label Prefix: TSMDBVOL
   Library: DBTAPELIB
 Directory:
   Server Name:
  Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/22/02   12:46:42

 Device Class Name: DBTRIGGER
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 0
   Device Type: FILE
Format: DRIVE
 Est/Max Capacity (MB): 4.0
   Mount Limit: 1
  Mount Wait (min):
 Mount Retention (min):
  Label Prefix:
   Library:
 Directory: /tsm/database/trigger
   Server Name:
  Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/05/02   09:42:53

 Device Class Name: DISK
Device Access Strategy: Random
Storage Pool Count: 3
   Device Type:
Format:
 Est/Max Capacity (MB):
   Mount Limit:
Mount Wait (min):
 Mount Retention (min):
  Label Prefix:
   Library:
 Directory:
   Server Name:
  Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
Last Update by (administrator):
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/04/02   12:35:15

-

Drives:


tsm: TSM>q drive f=d

Library Name: DBTAPELIB
  Drive Name: DBTAPEMT0
 Device Type: 8MM
 On-Line: Yes
  Device: /dev/mt0
 

Re: TSM Client 5.x

[Magura, Curtis]

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/clie
nt/v5r1/Windows/

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-PROD-ZH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM Client 5.x


i can't find the V5 Client on the Tivoli Page, does anyone have a
downloadadress.

thx
Joachim

Re: Tivoli Decision Support

[Magura, Curtis]

We have started to collect data from two systems. One has a 52GB db that is
85.3% full and the other has a 52GB db that is 45.3% full.

We had a problem at the first of the year where our timesource was wrong and
both systems got set to the year 2021. We did clean up the summary table but
found that the actlog still has some year 2021 entries left in it. So that
is causing a problem and two of the cubes still don't have current data in
them.

While I don't run the actual loader job or build the cubes I know that we
have seen erratic run times. Right know I'm attributing it the records with
the 2021 timestamp although I don't have any proof of that. On the list of
things to do this week is to clean up those records. For the summary table
there were only six records and with level2's help it was pretty simple to
edit the database using some commands they walked me through. For the actlog
there are a couple of hundred and it will be more of a pain. Most of the
records in the actlog are messages complaining about the date. Even though
we didn't accept the data change by the time I got in there were quite of
few of these messages logged:

08/18/2021 00:01:21  ANR0110E An unexpected system date has been detected;
the
  server is disabled. Use the ACCEPT DATE command to
  establish the current date as valid.

The loader creates the following select statement and never finds any
current data:

04/29/2002 06:27:56  ANR2017I Administrator ISMBATCH issued command: DEFINE
  CURSOR C34b480c SQL="SELECT DATE_TIME, MSGNO, MESSAGE,
  SEVERITY from ACTLOG where ORIGINATOR = 'SERVER' and
  DATE_TIME>= '2021-08-18 06:02:43' and (SEVERITY = 'E'
OR
  SEVERITY = 'S' OR SEVERITY = 'D' OR SEVERITY = 'W')"

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Hart, Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tivoli Decision Support


Is anyone running TDS for TSM that has a 50GB TSM DB?

Regards,

Charles Hart
Medtronic Storage Team

Re: Passwordaccess generate failing

[Magura, Curtis]

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


-Original Message-
From: Luscombe John (HS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Passwordaccess generate failing


Hi listers,

You'll have to forgive me, I'm a bit of a TSM novice.

We have TSM 4.2.something running under AIX. Our DB2 guy had a problem
moving a table from one client node to another. He did some reading that
suggested changing the password at the server to a known value, and
switching off passwordaccess generate at the client. I did this, no
problems, he was able to restore his tables.

The problem now is, how do I get it back to the way it was before? I've done
some reading through archives, but must be missing something.

When I have passwordaccess prompt, I can do a dsmc sched, and enter the
userid and password as set on the server, no problems. But as soon as I
switch on access generate and do a dsmc sched and enter the userid, then it
bombs immediately. I'm guessing what's happening is that the client is
sending the encrypted password back to the server which of course doesn't
match. But how do I get them back in sync.

Thanks for your help

Frustrated beginner.