Re: What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting
Hi Nicholas, The 3584 can send snmp traps, this is configured via the specialist gui. I wrote a few scripts to query TSM, ie number of drives offline, number of paths offline Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 7:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting Hello All, Thanks for your help!! We are running TSM 5.3.4 with a IBM 3584 library. Our library has not exactly been the Pinnacle of MTBF. All the drives have been replaced, some more than once and the medium changer has been replaced twice. All of this since April 2007. The medium changer died this past Friday night and no one caught it until the next day. Our DBA has made a big stink about monitoring TSM and alerting when something is wrong. The DBA and another admin think they can write some code to do this alerting on the 8493E message in the activity log. My question is: What tools are you folks using to monitor TSM and alert you to any problems. Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: Moving drives between logical libraries in 3584
Hi David, You might have to stop start TSM. I had to when I added some more drives to our 3584. Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Monday, 7 May 2007 23:22 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Moving drives between logical libraries in 3584 I moved a drive from one logical library to another in a 3584. TSM is running on aix. lsdev -Cctape shows the drive. When I try to define the path to tsm, I'm getting the following error: tsm: ULTSMdefine path ultsm drive506 srct=server destt=drive library=3584 autod etect=yes device=/dev/rmt19 online=yes ANR8972E DEFINE PATH: Unable to find the element number for drive DRIVE506 in library 3584. ANS8001I Return code 15. Any ideas?
Re: backup storage question
Hi Paul, It will carry on from where it left off. Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dudley Sent: Monday, 16 April 2007 17:09 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] backup storage question I am currently making a copy of our archive storage pool tapes to send offsite using the command: backup stg ARCTAPEPOOL ARCCPYPOOL wait=yes My question is - if I have to cancel this process part way through, when I restart it will it pick up from where it left off or will it start from the beginning again? Regards Paul Paul Dudley ANL IT Operations Dept. ANL Container Line [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANL - CELEBRATING 50 YEARS ANL DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any file attached is confidential, and intended solely to the named addressees. Any unauthorised dissemination or use is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail from your system. Please do not copy, use or make reference to it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any person.
Re: Expanding the UNIX filesystem (TSM)
Hi Srinath, Try chfs -a size=+size increased byG filesystem mount point So something like chfs -a size=+50G /apps/tsm Will increase the /apps/tsm filesystem by 50Gb (if there is enough space in the Volume Group.) Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gopinathan, Srinath Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:33 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Expanding the UNIX filesystem (TSM) Hi, I am getting an error stating that The percentage of available space in the file system /apps/tsm/file is low (0.04769113860967792 percent). Hence, we allocated 100GB of space to the Unix server where /apps/tsm/ is located. Now the Unix server team is not able to expand the filesystem as that filesystem is 99% full. Is there any way of expanding the filesystem? Regards, Srinath G This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by the Cable Wireless e-mail security system - powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive managed e-mail security service, visit http://www.cw.com/uk/emailprotection/ The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. It is intended only for the recipient(s) named above. If you are not named above as a recipient, you must not read, copy, disclose, forward or otherwise use the information contained in this email. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender (whose contact details are above) immediately by reply e-mail and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies.
Re: Expanding the UNIX filesystem (TSM)
Yes OK I should have said that But then again AIX is the REAL UNIX! :) Mmmm AIX -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Booth Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:45 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Expanding the UNIX filesystem (TSM) On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:41:11PM +1100, Stephen Mackereth wrote: Hi Srinath, Try chfs -a size=+size increased byG filesystem mount point So something like chfs -a size=+50G /apps/tsm Will increase the /apps/tsm filesystem by 50Gb (if there is enough space in the Volume Group.) AND... Assuming it is AIX. What OS are you running Srinath? bob
Re: Highest session number
Its probably not the highest 3,375,434 Server restart 08/08/2006 Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerald Michalak Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:04 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Highest session number I've had a TSM server running for a while, the last session number I saw was: 1,385,881 What's the highest this will go before crashing the server? Gerald Michalak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sql request
Hi Geoff, Try this. Select client_schedules.schedule_name,client_schedules.action,client_schedules.star ttime,associations.node_name - from client_schedules,associations Regards, Stephen -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:25 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] sql request I was wondering if someone had a sql statement for this. I would like to query the server to dump out the backup schedule name, action, start time and the clients associated with each schedule. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sql request
Hi Geoff, Oops! I tested on our small tsm server and it worked (accidently) Try this instead. select client_schedules.schedule_name,client_schedules.action,client_schedules.star ttime,associations.node_name - from client_schedules,associations where client_schedules.schedule_name=associations.schedule_name Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:12 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] sql request Thanks Stephen. When I run this it seems to show that every client I have is assigned to every schedule on the server, and I know that is not the case. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Mackereth Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: sql request Hi Geoff, Try this. Select client_schedules.schedule_name,client_schedules.action,client_schedules. star ttime,associations.node_name - from client_schedules,associations Regards, Stephen -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:25 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] sql request I was wondering if someone had a sql statement for this. I would like to query the server to dump out the backup schedule name, action, start time and the clients associated with each schedule. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reconcile volumes
Hi Christoph,
on the source server try 'audit vol {virtual_vol_name}'
this fixed all the errors I had with the same configuration.
I would set all your reclamation levels back to 100
on the copy pool and the tape pool before running the audit.
regards
Stephen M.
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From: Christoph Pilgram
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Sent: Monday, 7 May 2001 20:49
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: reconcile volumes
Hy all,
Background : 2 AIX-Servers as TSM-Server (TSM 3.7.4). Each server sends its
copy-pool date via Server-to-Server to a storage-pool on the other server
(seq access primary pool -- Magstar-Tape). I have a reclamation threshold
at 80% on the seq acc stg pool and a threshold of 90% for the
copy-pool-volumes on the originating server.
My question about 'reconcile volumes' :
every day before backing up my TSM-database I run a reconcile volumes with
fix=yes on both of my TSM-servers.
I get warnings like the following for about 40 Volumes :
05/07/01 05:48:43 ANR4359W RECONCILE VOLUMES: Volume BC0ADSM2.BFS.973060068
not valid, the size of the volume on target server does not match the size
on the source server.
05/07/01 05:48:44 ANR4361W RECONCILE VOLUMES: Volume BC0ADSM2.BFS.975652121
not valid, the target server has reported damage to all or part of the
volume.
The job completes with the following messages :
05/07/01 05:48:46 ANR4345I RECONCILE VOLUMES completed for device class
BC02DEVCL; (process ID 363); 3501 volumes inspected, 38 invalid volumes
found, 0 volumes deleted.
05/07/01 05:48:46 ANR4336W RECONCILE VOLUMES process ended, process ID 363.
05/07/01 05:48:46 ANR0987I Process 363 for RECONCILE VOLUMES (REPAIR)
running in the BACKGROUND processed 3501 items with a completion state of
SUCCESS at 05:48:46.
Many of the volumes (not all) bring the same message on next day.
How do I get rid of these messages, what do they exactly mean and how can I
make the copy-pool-data rebuild ?
Thanks
Christoph
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Re: Manually inactivate NT files
Hi Shawn,
Why don't you leave it alone for some period of time
like 3 months (if you not short on space) and then
delete the filespaces the node permanently.
This depends on
1. how the backup copygroup is defined.
2. how long after the client has gone, are you required to restore anything.
q filesp {node_name}
del filesp {node_name} {filespace_name from above command}
rem node {node_name}
Regards
Stephen Mackereth
Senior UNIX Consultant / Senior Storage Administrator (TSM)
ITS Unix Systems Support
Coles Myer Ltd.
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From: Shawn Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 9 March 2001 13:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Manually "inactivate" NT files
I wanted to get an idea of what people do when
clients are taken offline permanently.
Ideally, we would run the backup client one last time excluding everything
(so the files will follow the Management Class setting for Inactive files)
However, we are commonly told a client is offline after the fact. So we
cannot
run the client one last time.
On unix, it seems (although I haven't done this yet) that is would just be
a matter
of reconfiguring my workstation to "imitate" the removed node, and running
an incremental (with exlusion settings) and it will expire everything.
On NT however, the filesspace name is named after the UNC name
(i.e \\ntserver\c$) So when I reconfigure my workstation, it creates a new
filespace
with my workstations unc name.
I see 2 ways to possibly solve this (both of which are a little cumbersome
and ugly
- rename my workstation to the name of the removed node
- rename the filespace on the server to fit my unc name
Is there any server command or any other way to do this?
shawn
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Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files
Hi Ben, we faced a simular problem to you, How to backup lots of little files without killing the TSM Server. we wrote a script to "tar up" all of the little files to a few large files this saves the TSM database and the time to backup and restore the files. we went from backing up 27,000 files which used to run for 2H 10M to backing up 381 files that takes around 40M. This solution may work for you depending on the type of hardware used to control the manufacturing machines. I wish you well in your problem resolution. Regards Stephen Mackereth Senior UNIX Consultant / Senior Storage Administrator (TSM) ITS Unix Systems Support Coles Myer Ltd. -Original Message- From: bbullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2001 9:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files Jeff, You hit the nail on the head of what is the biggest problem I face with TSM today. Excuse me for being long winded, but let me explain the boat I'm in, and how it relates to many small files. We have been using TSM for about 5 years at our company and have finally got everyone on our band wagon and away from the variety of backup solutions and media we had in the past. We now have 8 TSM servers running on AIX hosts (S80s) attached to 4 libraries with a total of 44 3590E tape drives. A nice beefy environment. The problem that keeps me awake at night now is that we now have manufacturing machines wanting to use TSM for their backups. In the past they have used small DLT libraries locally attached to the host, but that's labor intensive and they want to take advantage of our "enterprise backup solution". A great coup for my job security and TSM, as they now see the benefit of TSM. The problem with these hosts is that they generate many, many small files every day. Without going into any detail, each file is a test on a part that they may need to look at if the part ever fails. Each part gets many tests done to it through the manufacturing process, so many files are generated for each part. How many files? Well, I have one Solaris-based host that generates 500,000 new files a day in a deeply nested directory structure (about 10 levels deep with only about 5 files per directory). Before I am asked, "no, they are not able to change the directory of file structure on the host. It runs proprietary applications that can't be altered". They are currently keeping these files on the host for about 30 days and then deleting them. I have no problem moving the files to TSM on a nightly basis, we have a nice big network pipe and the files are small. The problem is with the TSM database growth, and the number of files per filesystem (stored in TSM). Unfortunately, the directories are not shown when you do a 'q occ' on a node, so there is actually a "hidden" number of database entries that are taking up space in my TSM database that are not readily apparent when looking at the output of "q node". One of my TSM databases is growing by about 1.5 GB a week, with no end in sight. We currently are keeping those files for 180 days, but they are now requesting that them be kept for 5 years (in case a part gets returned by a customer). This one nightmare host now has over 20 million files (and an unknown number of directories) across 10 filesystems. We have found from experience, that any more than about 500,000 files in any filesystem means a full filesystem restore would take many hours. Just to restore the directory structure seems to take a few hours at least. I have told the admins of this host that it is very much unrecoverable in it's current state, and would take on the order of days to restore the whole box. They are disappointed that an "enterprise backup solution" can't handle this number of files any better. They are willing to work with us to get a solution that will both cover the daily "disaster recovery" backup need for the host and the long term retentions they desire. I am pushing back and telling them that their desire to keep it all for 5 years is unreasonable, but thought I'd bounce it off you folks to see if there was some TSM solution that I was overlooking. There are 2 ways to control database growth: reduce the number of database entries, or reduce the retention time. Here is what I've looked into so far. 1. Cut the incremental backup retention down to 30 days and then generate a backup set every 30 days for long term retention. On paper it looks good. you don't have to move the data over the net again and there is only 1 database entry. Well, I'm not sure how many of you have tried this on a filesystem with many files, but I tried it twice on a filesystem with only 20,000 files and it took over 1 hour to complete. Doing the math it would take over 100 hours to do each of t
Re: Virtual volume - physical Volume
Hi Winfried, try this select statement. This will take a while for it to run - seeing to runs through on of the largest table in the database. local server (where the virtual volume is created) remote server (where the virtual volume is stored) (run on the remote server) select volume_name from contents where node_name='(*1)' and filespace_name='ADSM.SERVER' and file_name like '%(*2)%' *1 = the node_name of the local server on the remote server. *2 = can be just the 9 digit virtual volume serial number (from the local server). Regards Stephen Mackereth Senior UNIX Consultant / Senior Storage Administrator (TSM) ITS Unix Systems Support Coles Myer Ltd. -Original Message- From: Winfried Heilmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 24 January 2001 19:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtual volume - physical Volume Hi, does anybody know how I can find out on which physical volume a virtual volume ist stored. I have only the name of the virtual volume. Regards winfried This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses.
Re: TDP for Oracle and passwordaccess generate
Hi Joel, The Documentation is correct. after you have registered the nodes in the TSM Server, You need to setup all the DSMO* variables in the current shell, and run the aobpswd utility. This will create a file with the encrypted password stored, this is how the TDPO connects into the TSM server. its all in the TDPO installation manual. Regards Stephen Mackereth Senior UNIX Consultant / Senior Storage Administrator (TSM) ITS Unix Systems Support Coles Myer Ltd. -Original Message- From: Joel Fuhrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 24 January 2001 10:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for Oracle and passwordaccess generate The TDP for Oracle Version 2.1 documentation says the PasswordAccess must be set to Prompted. Usually you want "PasswordAccess Generate" which is current setting for the Scheduler Service on this AIX host. Is "PasswordAccess Prompted" a true requirement or a just case of bad documentation. This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses.
Re: TDP for ORACLE restores
Hi Bruce, I believe that is all, Our DBAs have done this before. Have you got a problem ? Regards Stephen Mackereth -Original Message- From: Bruce Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 15 January 2001 20:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for ORACLE restores Sorry, a subject might help... -- Forwarded by Bruce Mitchell on 15/01/2001 09:47 --- From: Bruce Mitchell on 15/01/2001 09:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: I'm wondering if anyone has successfully restored using RMAN from a different TSM server. One of our DBA's is attempting to do this. Environment :- Oracle 8.1.6. TDP for Oracle V.2.1.9 (no we wont use V2.1.10 because it core dumps on any TSM client with cloptsets). TSM server version 4.1.2.0 Solaris 2.07 The scenario is as follows : - Location A contains TSM server xx . Oracle DB yy and DMSO_NODE zz So yy backs up to server xx , via TSM client zz ( using dsm.optora to point to server xx in the dsm.sys file) Location B contain TSM server aa. Oracle DB bb and DSMO_NODE cc aa backs up to server bb , via TSM client cc ( using dsm.optora to point to server cc in the dsm.sys file) To restore yy to Node in Location B, my intention for him (DBA) is to :- export DSMO_NODE=zz (as known in location A) export DSMI_CONFIG=/home/oracle/dsm.optorarest This opt file points to server xx (location A) in dsm.sys stanza. We've set up TDPO.zz password file. Will this work or, is there anything else required? We want to get a handle on this to perform cross server/cross client restores, as we have a local TSM server per tech suite (of which there are several), and DBA's want to restore Oracle DB's between locations for BCP purposes. LONDON Tel: +44(0) 207 547 4917 Fax+44(0) 207 650 7917 Mobile+44(0) 468 361-885 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses.
Re: TDP for Oracle v2.1
Hi Eric, Yes you can. just follow the installation instructions that come with the patch. regards Stephen Mackereth AIX / ADSM Administrator -Original Message- From: Eric Tang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 7 December 2000 22:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for Oracle v2.1 I have download fix on TDP Oracle v2110 (for hp AIX), as I am still waiting for the TDP Oracle v2.1 CD delivery, can I use the license file from TDP Oracle v1.1 CD together the v2110 download fix? Thanks in advance. Regards, Eric Tang This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses.
Re: Server to Server virtual volumes
Hi Frank, We are in a the middle of this situation. both servers (at different locations) were at 3.1.2.42 running on RS/6000 S7A. I have migrated 1 server to 3.7.3.8 (due to log replay error on startup) and the other 1 is still on 3.1.2.42 (about to be upgraded) but we've been running like this for about 3 weeks. Stephen Mackereth Coles-Myer Ltd. Unix Systems Support. -Original Message- From: McClean, Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2000 8:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server to Server virtual volumes Environment: Source and target servers are both RS6000 S/P high nodes at AIX 4.3.3 and communicating via SP switch. Files at the target server will be migrated from a disk pool off to tape. (STK Powderhorn Silo with SCSI attached 9840's) ( ACSLS on RS6000 590, Gresham E.L.M. and 9840 device driver on target server) Question: Can the source server be at TSM 3.7.3 and the target server be at ADSM 3.1.2.20 ?? Target server to be updated soon to TSM 3.7.3, but , in the meantime will this work Frank McClean [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses.
