SANErgy AIX question
Hello, Does anyone have expirence with Tivoli SANErgy filesharing? I would like to use it for TSM FILE deviceclasses. The SANErgy MDC would be an AIX 6.1 (the TSM server), another AIX 6.1 would be the client. I set up the NFS server on MDC, the LUN (on which the NFS-exported filesystem resides) can be seen on the client too, the owner is set on the MDC and can be seen on the client correctly. NFS mount is OK from the client, the problem is, when I fuse the volume, it is succesful, but the files can't be read or written. The file entry creates succesfully (0 byte long). I think, fs/NFS permissions are OK, because these operations work without SANErgy fusing. mount on the client: (...) tsmsrv /sanfs /sanfs nfs3 Dec 30 15:43 bg,intr,noac,rw # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig ver sanergyfsf_3.3.6.0 Thu Jan 15 19:55:47 EST 2009 # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig owner 0 rhdisk1 NO INFO 1 sanfs rhdisk2 NO INFO tsmsrv # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig fuse /sanfs Success # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig fuse OK|/sanfs,tsmsrv,/sanfs # echo --- /sanfs/aaa There is an input or output error. ksh: /sanfs/aaa: 0403-005 Cannot create the specified file. # ls -l /sanfs/aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody system 0 Jan 03 21:20 /sanfs/aaa # cat /sanfs/test cat: 0652-050 Cannot open /sanfs/test. The same issue with SANErgy perf tool. The documentations are a bit old (A Practical Guide to Tivoli SANErgy was written in 2001, the Admin Guide (for v3.2) in 2002...), some commands do not exist in the documented format... Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Robert
Re: SANErgy AIX question
I believe GPFS is recommended over SANergy from IBM for this type of thing nowadays. At least that's what they were pushing at the last symposium Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet v...@freemail.hu Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 01/03/2011 03:43 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject [ADSM-L] SANErgy AIX question Hello, Does anyone have expirence with Tivoli SANErgy filesharing? I would like to use it for TSM FILE deviceclasses. The SANErgy MDC would be an AIX 6.1 (the TSM server), another AIX 6.1 would be the client. I set up the NFS server on MDC, the LUN (on which the NFS-exported filesystem resides) can be seen on the client too, the owner is set on the MDC and can be seen on the client correctly. NFS mount is OK from the client, the problem is, when I fuse the volume, it is succesful, but the files can't be read or written. The file entry creates succesfully (0 byte long). I think, fs/NFS permissions are OK, because these operations work without SANErgy fusing. mount on the client: (...) tsmsrv /sanfs /sanfs nfs3 Dec 30 15:43 bg,intr,noac,rw # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig ver sanergyfsf_3.3.6.0 Thu Jan 15 19:55:47 EST 2009 # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig owner 0 rhdisk1 NO INFO 1 sanfs rhdisk2 NO INFO tsmsrv # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig fuse /sanfs Success # /usr/SANergy/SANergyconfig fuse OK|/sanfs,tsmsrv,/sanfs # echo --- /sanfs/aaa There is an input or output error. ksh: /sanfs/aaa: 0403-005 Cannot create the specified file. # ls -l /sanfs/aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody system 0 Jan 03 21:20 /sanfs/aaa # cat /sanfs/test cat: 0652-050 Cannot open /sanfs/test. The same issue with SANErgy perf tool. The documentations are a bit old (A Practical Guide to Tivoli SANErgy was written in 2001, the Admin Guide (for v3.2) in 2002...), some commands do not exist in the documented format... Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Robert This message and any attachments (the message) is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, Inc.
AIX question
Hi Everyone, This is more a AIX question then a TSM question. But I wonder if their is any command such cat /proc/scsi/scsi in AIX or cat /var/log/messages |grep -i LTO The reason why I'm asking is beause one of my tape drives it totally gone from the AIX environment. I run cfgmgr -v to auto-detect it and then when I run lsdev -Cc tape I did see all drives but one of the RMT was in Defind mode or something similar. So I try to remove the RMTx Device node and run cfgmgr -v again but now can't I find it anymore. I have try to remove all my Device Nodes for Tape and Library and reintall the drivers but still. I don't see my drive anymore. If I run q san I don't see it in TSM either. Any suggestions what's going on? I'm going to see if I can get access to the SAN Switch and the library (TS3500) via IP. But so far I don't have any access so everything that can help me in AIX to be 100% sure it is a Switch or Library problem should help. I look in errpt also and I see a Adapter Problem but I can't see what it is. Any good switches to get a better explanation of a error in errpt? Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson
Re: AIX question
Hi Christian, On AIX you can indeed use lsdev -Cctape to see your tape devices. My best guess to what you describe is that the path from the drive to the host is failing. So have a look a the library and all SAN components to see if you can see the drive there. Also is your TSM server a standalone machine (e.g. Full SMP or separate box) or is it an LPAR. If it's an LPAR does it use a VIO Server? What version of AIX and (Atape) drivers are on the TSM Server? Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: 09 July 2009 10:04 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AIX question Hi Everyone, This is more a AIX question then a TSM question. But I wonder if their is any command such cat /proc/scsi/scsi in AIX or cat /var/log/messages |grep -i LTO The reason why I'm asking is beause one of my tape drives it totally gone from the AIX environment. I run cfgmgr -v to auto-detect it and then when I run lsdev -Cc tape I did see all drives but one of the RMT was in Defind mode or something similar. So I try to remove the RMTx Device node and run cfgmgr -v again but now can't I find it anymore. I have try to remove all my Device Nodes for Tape and Library and reintall the drivers but still. I don't see my drive anymore. If I run q san I don't see it in TSM either. Any suggestions what's going on? I'm going to see if I can get access to the SAN Switch and the library (TS3500) via IP. But so far I don't have any access so everything that can help me in AIX to be 100% sure it is a Switch or Library problem should help. I look in errpt also and I see a Adapter Problem but I can't see what it is. Any good switches to get a better explanation of a error in errpt? Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson
Re: AIX question
Sounds like AIX has lost the drive, so duff drive, zoning etc... You could do a cfgmgr -vl (name of fcs port the tape is down) to do a quicker cfgmgr. errpt -a will give you more info. Have we got multiple drives down the same HBA? i.e. is the hba cable good? Steven Steven Langdale Global Information Services EAME SAN/Storage Planning and Implementation ( Phone : +44 (0)1733 584175 ( Mob: +44 (0)7876 216782 ü Conference: +44 (0)208 609 7400 Code: 331817 + Email: steven.langd...@cat.com Christian Svensson christian.svens...@cristie.se Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 09/07/2009 09:04 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] AIX question Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 08/08/2009 Hi Everyone, This is more a AIX question then a TSM question. But I wonder if their is any command such cat /proc/scsi/scsi in AIX or cat /var/log/messages |grep -i LTO The reason why I'm asking is beause one of my tape drives it totally gone from the AIX environment. I run cfgmgr -v to auto-detect it and then when I run lsdev -Cc tape I did see all drives but one of the RMT was in Defind mode or something similar. So I try to remove the RMTx Device node and run cfgmgr -v again but now can't I find it anymore. I have try to remove all my Device Nodes for Tape and Library and reintall the drivers but still. I don't see my drive anymore. If I run q san I don't see it in TSM either. Any suggestions what's going on? I'm going to see if I can get access to the SAN Switch and the library (TS3500) via IP. But so far I don't have any access so everything that can help me in AIX to be 100% sure it is a Switch or Library problem should help. I look in errpt also and I see a Adapter Problem but I can't see what it is. Any good switches to get a better explanation of a error in errpt? Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson
Re: AIX question
Log onto your san switch and see if you see the tape drive connected on the switch port it's attached to. Rick Christian Svensson Christian.Svenss To o...@cristie.seADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: ADSM:cc Dist Stor Manager Subject ads...@vm.marist AIX question .EDU 07/09/2009 04:04 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ads...@vm.marist .EDU Hi Everyone, This is more a AIX question then a TSM question. But I wonder if their is any command such cat /proc/scsi/scsi in AIX or cat /var/log/messages |grep -i LTO The reason why I'm asking is beause one of my tape drives it totally gone from the AIX environment. I run cfgmgr -v to auto-detect it and then when I run lsdev -Cc tape I did see all drives but one of the RMT was in Defind mode or something similar. So I try to remove the RMTx Device node and run cfgmgr -v again but now can't I find it anymore. I have try to remove all my Device Nodes for Tape and Library and reintall the drivers but still. I don't see my drive anymore. If I run q san I don't see it in TSM either. Any suggestions what's going on? I'm going to see if I can get access to the SAN Switch and the library (TS3500) via IP. But so far I don't have any access so everything that can help me in AIX to be 100% sure it is a Switch or Library problem should help. I look in errpt also and I see a Adapter Problem but I can't see what it is. Any good switches to get a better explanation of a error in errpt? Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
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Hi, Thanks for your all help. I only have VPN access to the server only. I hope to get access to everything tomorrow so look around. But I do get following error in errpt. When I google on that it tell me to double check the FC cable. Will do that when I got a chance. LABEL: FCA_ERR2 IDENTIFIER: D666A8C7 Date/Time: Thu Jul 9 21:34:16 Sweden 2009 Sequence Number: 137 Machine Id: 00013152D700 Node Id: p141 Class: H Type:TEMP WPAR:Global Resource Name: fcs0 Resource Class: adapter Resource Type: df1000fa Location:U787F.001.DPM0DM7-P1-C5-T1 VPD: Part Number.80P4543 EC LevelA Serial Number...1B51703BCD Manufacturer001B Customer Card ID Number.280B FRU Number.. 80P4544 Device Specific.(ZM)3 Network Address.1000C9466D94 ROS Level and ID02881914 Device Specific.(Z0)1001206D Device Specific.(Z1) Device Specific.(Z2) Device Specific.(Z3)03000909 Device Specific.(Z4)FF801315 Device Specific.(Z5)02881914 Device Specific.(Z6)06831914 Device Specific.(Z7)07831914 Device Specific.(Z8)2000C9466D94 Device Specific.(Z9)TS1.90A4 Device Specific.(ZA)T1D1.90A4 Device Specific.(ZB)T2D1.90A4 Device Specific.(ZC) Description ADAPTER ERROR Recommended Actions PERFORM PROBLEM DETERMINATION PROCEDURES Thanks everyone for your help. Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] f#246;r Richard van Denzel [rden...@tdmi.nl] Skickat: den 9 juli 2009 11:33 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Re: AIX question Hi Christian, On AIX you can indeed use lsdev -Cctape to see your tape devices. My best guess to what you describe is that the path from the drive to the host is failing. So have a look a the library and all SAN components to see if you can see the drive there. Also is your TSM server a standalone machine (e.g. Full SMP or separate box) or is it an LPAR. If it's an LPAR does it use a VIO Server? What version of AIX and (Atape) drivers are on the TSM Server? Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: 09 July 2009 10:04 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AIX question Hi Everyone, This is more a AIX question then a TSM question. But I wonder if their is any command such cat /proc/scsi/scsi in AIX or cat /var/log/messages |grep -i LTO The reason why I'm asking is beause one of my tape drives it totally gone from the AIX environment. I run cfgmgr -v to auto-detect it and then when I run lsdev -Cc tape I did see all drives but one of the RMT was in Defind mode or something similar. So I try to remove the RMTx Device node and run cfgmgr -v again but now can't I find it anymore. I have try to remove all my Device Nodes for Tape and Library and reintall the drivers but still. I don't see my drive anymore. If I run q san I don't see it in TSM either. Any suggestions what's going on? I'm going to see if I can get access to the SAN Switch and the library (TS3500) via IP. But so far I don't have any access so everything that can help me in AIX to be 100% sure it is a Switch or Library problem should help. I look in errpt also and I see a Adapter Problem but I can't see what it is. Any good switches to get a better explanation of a error in errpt? Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson
Off topic AIX question
Sorry for the off topic question but since a lot of folks use AIX I have a question. I was wondering if someone knows what log type files might be growing on /usr that I can delete or prune to free up some space. Since this server is only used for TSM nobody would be on the system except me. Are there other files elsewhere that would also need attention? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off topic AIX question
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Gill, Geoffrey L. might have said: Sorry for the off topic question but since a lot of folks use AIX I have a question. I was wondering if someone knows what log type files might be growing on /usr that I can delete or prune to free up some space. Since this server is only used for TSM nobody would be on the system except me. Are there other files elsewhere that would also need attention? Start at /usr executing the command 'du -s * | sort -n'. Go into each directory that seems larger than it should and execute the command again until you find the files. Mike
Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)
what is larrd and where to get it ? thanks - Original Message - From: Tom Kauffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:12 PM Subject: Re: AIX question (off topic possibly) Big Brother with the larrd add-in works nicely. See http://bb4.com/ Or contact me directly . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question (off topic possibly) Hi all, This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running during different periods of processing. With that said.. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally or remotely, on an AIX computer running 5.1 or 5.2, that can show the health or usage of the computer resources. Tools like topas are nice but I would like to see a graphical interpretation of these types of things if possible. It would be nice if it was a free tool, but it does not have to be. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)
nmon is what they are looking for it is free + it is done by IBM (but not officially supported). I used it on all AIX box a great tool. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/analyze_aix/ Christophe via Charlie Hurtubise Tecsys Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question (off topic possibly) Hi all, This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running during different periods of processing. With that said.. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally or remotely, on an AIX computer running 5.1 or 5.2, that can show the health or usage of the computer resources. Tools like topas are nice but I would like to see a graphical interpretation of these types of things if possible. It would be nice if it was a free tool, but it does not have to be. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975
Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)
From http://bb4.com/ select 'support' (http://bb4.com/support.html) and then 'Enhancements and Plugins' (http://www.deadcat.net/) then search on 'larrd'. Here's the short-form writeup: Create graphs of the information that BB collects so that you can see the trend of disk space usage or CPU utilisation etc etc. NB: this package requires Tobi Oetiker RRDTOOL http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/, perl and the rrd perl module. Check larrd.packetpushers.com or BB Community Doco for more information. This is an update to larrd-0.42 (backwards compatible). OS: UNIX Other I think it took me about three days to get everything tied together once I got started. I get 4 graphs (last 48 hours, last 12 days, last 48 days, and last 576 days) for cpu load, tcp/ip connection times, cpu utilization (system, user, wait, and idle states) and system call activity. The 576 day chart shows my SAP DB server has gone from roughly 10% system state to 17% system state over the last 18 months as workload has picked up; the 48-hour chart shows me that my TSM backup (gotta get back on topic somehow :-) runs for 2.5 hours at 50% system, 25% user and 15% wait (on a 4-way 660-6M1 - ouch!). Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: goran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIX question (off topic possibly) what is larrd and where to get it ? thanks - Original Message - From: Tom Kauffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:12 PM Subject: Re: AIX question (off topic possibly) Big Brother with the larrd add-in works nicely. See http://bb4.com/ Or contact me directly . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question (off topic possibly) Hi all, This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running during different periods of processing. With that said.. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally or remotely, on an AIX computer running 5.1 or 5.2, that can show the health or usage of the computer resources. Tools like topas are nice but I would like to see a graphical interpretation of these types of things if possible. It would be nice if it was a free tool, but it does not have to be. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
AIX question (off topic possibly)
Hi all, This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running during different periods of processing. With that said.. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally or remotely, on an AIX computer running 5.1 or 5.2, that can show the health or usage of the computer resources. Tools like topas are nice but I would like to see a graphical interpretation of these types of things if possible. It would be nice if it was a free tool, but it does not have to be. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975
Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)
snmp customization and mrtg ? R. -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question (off topic possibly) Hi all, This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running during different periods of processing. With that said.. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally or remotely, on an AIX computer running 5.1 or 5.2, that can show the health or usage of the computer resources. Tools like topas are nice but I would like to see a graphical interpretation of these types of things if possible. It would be nice if it was a free tool, but it does not have to be. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975
Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)
Big Brother with the larrd add-in works nicely. See http://bb4.com/ Or contact me directly . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question (off topic possibly) Hi all, This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running during different periods of processing. With that said.. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally or remotely, on an AIX computer running 5.1 or 5.2, that can show the health or usage of the computer resources. Tools like topas are nice but I would like to see a graphical interpretation of these types of things if possible. It would be nice if it was a free tool, but it does not have to be. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
AIX Question:
All- Please forgive me to ask this AIX question on TSM list : Can any one tell me what are the file sets for ISMP s/w for AIX5L. Or what additional Cd I need to install for this task. Thanks Balanand Pinni 23-H-4 SBC Services Inc OBC ,Stl MO * 314-206-5911 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 1- 800- 451- 6897
Re: AIX Question
Hi TSMers, Miles, the answer to your question is the same reason, that Rene has given, it more for splitting traffic but in our case we have put the application traffic on the normal 10/100mb card and the backup traffic on the gigabit card. Thanks again guys for all your answers, it has definately come in handy. One last question, when I backup data on the gigabit card it backups up 1gb per minute and my restores are 1gb per 5 minutes... do any of you guys have an idea as to how I can improve the restore ratePlease note that we do not have a san and this is why we have opted to go for the two lans.. Thanks again in advance for all your help. Regards. Lindy -Original Message- From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 September 2003 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIX Question Miles, in fact this what we do here, except we have more than one gbit adapter on each tsm server, a way of dividing traffic and defining direct connections to different vlan's (less hops), best regards, rene -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,8. September 2003 17:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIX Question Hi there, I have a related question: what is the benefit to using two interfaces? Why not just use the gigabit card, for all TSM traffic? Is it better to keep the high-speed backups on the giga bit interface and keep the scheduler traffic on its own? It seems like a lot of extra work and confusion. Consequently, I have a very similar setup, and I'm always interested in ways to make the backups run faster. Thanks Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-Sep-03 6:15:05 AM Hi there, I guess you already got the right answer from Rene. Just add another entry to dsm.sys with tcpserveraddress pointing to the ip address of the GB card. The scheduler will be started with the default entry and handle connections through the 10/100MBit network while you will need to start your backup client either with the option -se=gbit_address or with using an alternative dsm.opt file employing the -optfile=dsm_gbit_address.opt option. Also, do not forget to define or modify your schedules appropriately by setting the option field for the relevant schedules to one of the above. CYA Lars On 08.09.2003 12:17:26 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
AIX Question
Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
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Lindy, we configured an en1 adapter with own ip address and DNS entry. In the client dsm.sys we use tcpserveraddress own_ip_address. You might have to add a proper static route, your network guys wil halp you for sure. Yours René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central Support Center SD/ESN Av. Nestlé 55 CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) tél +41 (0)21 924 35 43 fax +41 (0)21 924 13 69 local K4-104 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Lindy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,8. September 2003 12:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
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Hi there, I guess you already got the right answer from Rene. Just add another entry to dsm.sys with tcpserveraddress pointing to the ip address of the GB card. The scheduler will be started with the default entry and handle connections through the 10/100MBit network while you will need to start your backup client either with the option -se=gbit_address or with using an alternative dsm.opt file employing the -optfile=dsm_gbit_address.opt option. Also, do not forget to define or modify your schedules appropriately by setting the option field for the relevant schedules to one of the above. CYA Lars On 08.09.2003 12:17:26 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
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Lindy, This is what exactly I have done in my case at my work place. You need to tune network settings too! Yes we can specify second host name address for second Giga Card. What I have seen is while using smitty for N/W configuration it somehow does not allow to have same Hostname for two NIC Cards. At the same time /etc/hosts gets updated with same host name for two ips. This is what you can do .You can create DNS entry any how for the server .And edit /etc/hosts accordingly. Use ifconfig to change hostname on second card. Still if you problem e mail me directly. Thanks Balanand Pinni -Original Message- From: Crawford, Lindy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
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Hi there, I have a related question: what is the benefit to using two interfaces? Why not just use the gigabit card, for all TSM traffic? Is it better to keep the high-speed backups on the giga bit interface and keep the scheduler traffic on its own? It seems like a lot of extra work and confusion. Consequently, I have a very similar setup, and I'm always interested in ways to make the backups run faster. Thanks Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-Sep-03 6:15:05 AM Hi there, I guess you already got the right answer from Rene. Just add another entry to dsm.sys with tcpserveraddress pointing to the ip address of the GB card. The scheduler will be started with the default entry and handle connections through the 10/100MBit network while you will need to start your backup client either with the option -se=gbit_address or with using an alternative dsm.opt file employing the -optfile=dsm_gbit_address.opt option. Also, do not forget to define or modify your schedules appropriately by setting the option field for the relevant schedules to one of the above. CYA Lars On 08.09.2003 12:17:26 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
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Hi, I have NFS on Netapp Filer that is Local (network or private) NFS on Cisco SWITCH .I had on EMC previously, But to bring down the cost this was a better solution .You can share binaries too. Hope it helps to explain. But if you have GB as network both for storage and Applications that's fine but what is your Back bone that is running network on it also should be 1GB else you will not see the benefit. Balanand Pinni -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIX Question Hi there, I have a related question: what is the benefit to using two interfaces? Why not just use the gigabit card, for all TSM traffic? Is it better to keep the high-speed backups on the giga bit interface and keep the scheduler traffic on its own? It seems like a lot of extra work and confusion. Consequently, I have a very similar setup, and I'm always interested in ways to make the backups run faster. Thanks Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-Sep-03 6:15:05 AM Hi there, I guess you already got the right answer from Rene. Just add another entry to dsm.sys with tcpserveraddress pointing to the ip address of the GB card. The scheduler will be started with the default entry and handle connections through the 10/100MBit network while you will need to start your backup client either with the option -se=gbit_address or with using an alternative dsm.opt file employing the -optfile=dsm_gbit_address.opt option. Also, do not forget to define or modify your schedules appropriately by setting the option field for the relevant schedules to one of the above. CYA Lars On 08.09.2003 12:17:26 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
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Miles, in fact this what we do here, except we have more than one gbit adapter on each tsm server, a way of dividing traffic and defining direct connections to different vlan's (less hops), best regards, rene -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,8. September 2003 17:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIX Question Hi there, I have a related question: what is the benefit to using two interfaces? Why not just use the gigabit card, for all TSM traffic? Is it better to keep the high-speed backups on the giga bit interface and keep the scheduler traffic on its own? It seems like a lot of extra work and confusion. Consequently, I have a very similar setup, and I'm always interested in ways to make the backups run faster. Thanks Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-Sep-03 6:15:05 AM Hi there, I guess you already got the right answer from Rene. Just add another entry to dsm.sys with tcpserveraddress pointing to the ip address of the GB card. The scheduler will be started with the default entry and handle connections through the 10/100MBit network while you will need to start your backup client either with the option -se=gbit_address or with using an alternative dsm.opt file employing the -optfile=dsm_gbit_address.opt option. Also, do not forget to define or modify your schedules appropriately by setting the option field for the relevant schedules to one of the above. CYA Lars On 08.09.2003 12:17:26 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
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Hi, this is actually a good and valid question. Since I am a strong believer of KISS I actually do not see any obvious reason for separating the traffic even though TSM makes it possible to do so. The only reason I would figure is that the traffic should flow via two separate subnets with different requirements but thats network infrastructure so Lindy will have to answer this question. CYA Lars On 08.09.2003 17:10:55 Miles Purdy wrote: Hi there, I have a related question: what is the benefit to using two interfaces? Why not just use the gigabit card, for all TSM traffic? Is it better to keep the high-speed backups on the giga bit interface and keep the scheduler traffic on its own? It seems like a lot of extra work and confusion. Consequently, I have a very similar setup, and I'm always interested in ways to make the backups run faster. Thanks Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-Sep-03 6:15:05 AM Hi there, I guess you already got the right answer from Rene. Just add another entry to dsm.sys with tcpserveraddress pointing to the ip address of the GB card. The scheduler will be started with the default entry and handle connections through the 10/100MBit network while you will need to start your backup client either with the option -se=gbit_address or with using an alternative dsm.opt file employing the -optfile=dsm_gbit_address.opt option. Also, do not forget to define or modify your schedules appropriately by setting the option field for the relevant schedules to one of the above. CYA Lars On 08.09.2003 12:17:26 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hi TSMers, Sorry for doing this...but does any one know how to configure a gigabit card on AIX ...my scenario is as follows:- I want to use the gigabit card purely for tsm backups and for my nfs mounts..it is on a gigabit switch. I am using the en0 at present 10/100mb networkthe application will connect via this card but I need my backups and nfs mounts to connect via the gigabit card. Can you specify a second host name on the server for the gigabit card address ? Any ideas Lindy Crawford Information Technology Nedbank Corporate - Property Asset Finance *+27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and accordingly if you are not the intended recipient you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception corruption destruction loss late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. If verification of this email or any attachment is required please request a hard-copy version
AIX question ( du and df )
Hi all and thanks in advance for your answers.
My filesystem /var grow up rapidly and anormally and when I execute the command :
du -sk /var the result
is : 29653 ( ~ 29 M )
But when I execute the command df -kP , I find the result bellow :
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hd9var 262144138940 12320454%/var
It means thant about 138 M are used from /var but du -sk
gives only ~29 M, I don't know where is the difference (138.94 M - 29 M = 109.94 M) !!
Thank you
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Re: AIX question ( du and df )
My filesystem /var grow up rapidly and anormally and when I execute the command : du -sk /var the result is : 29653 ( ~ 29 M ) But when I execute the command df -kP , I find the result bellow : Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hd9var 262144138940 12320454%/var It means thant about 138 M are used from /var but du -sk gives only ~29 M, I don't know where is the difference (138.94 M - 29 M = 109.94 M) !! Hey, this is ADSM-L, not AIX-L! ;-) Certainly a big difference between df and du is that df is looking at the file system as a whole whereas du is running through directories accumulating file statistics. Files come and go as du is running. It is also the case that files can be open and have no directory entry, thus using a lot of invisible space. Get ahold of the freebee 'lsof' command to report open files: it's an invaluable aid. Richard Sims, BU
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Becky (and Justin from another post), Both of you suggest that I first delete the offending disks... yet that is my exact problem. I can't delete them. When I try to rmdev them, I get an error indicating that there is not enough information to uniquely identify the device (rmdev -l 'hdisk2' -d ... but there are two hdisk2 devices). I was looking for a way to delete them other than rmdev. The AIX guru in our shop finally came up with something he remembered from his classes... odmget and odmdelete commands. They appear to allow one to more uniquely identify a single object, more so than rmdev. Are there any gotchas to consider while using odmget and odmdelete? Todd Davidson, BeckyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Becky.Davidson cc: @SLBG.COMFax to: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: AIX question Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 01/06/2003 06:47 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Delete the two hdisk again. Run cfgmgr again. Check it and if you see the same type of pattern of 1 vpath showing 4 and the other 2 showing only one then the shark guy needs to recheck his configuration. If you see a different pattern try running cfgmgr again. There was a problem awhile back that you need to run cfgmgr x's with x being the number of paths so that you would get all of the paths. Sometimes we have had to delete and run cfgmgr again because it doesn't seem to work right the first time. After delete and rerunning cfgmgr it seems to work better. Something you might want to get your hands on is the Shark Gotcha's document. I think it is still on the storage page but if not email me off list and I will send it to you. Another issue you might run into is that the devices may not be fully formatted. There was a version of the shark code that said that everything was formatted yet it wasn't. The only way you could tell was to go into the shark under where you configure paths and refresh the screen. good luck and let me know if I can be of further assistance Becky -Original Message- From: Todd Lundstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question First, let me say.. Dear Lord, the IBM web pages are a pain to dig through and find what you are looking for. Couldn't find any knowledge bases or anything to help me resolve the issue I have... so.. here goes. AIX 4.3.3 My TSM server is a pSeries with two Fibre Channel Adapters installed, through which we access data on the ESS (shark) and the LTO tape drives (I know, bad idea). Each of the fibre cards is connected to its own fibre switch. Each switch has two connections to the Shark (four data paths to the Shark). We have been trying to add some additional Shark storage to the TSM server. After the Shark guy did his thing, I ran cfgmgr, and thinks didn't look quite right. The two old vpath devices each showed four disks (hdsikX), two on each of the two fibre cards (fscsi1, fscsi0), just like they always have. One of the three new vpath devices showed four hdisks on two different fscsi devices, but the other two vpath devices only showed two hdisks, one on each fscsi. lscfg showed a bunch of new disks, mostly available, but four were defined. I decided to delete the three new vpath devices, and all of the associated hdisk devices, including the defined ones. As I got to looking, I saw something odd... root@ax-dco-tsm / # lsdev -Cc disk hdisk0 Available 10-88-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk1 Available 10-88-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk18 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk19 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk20 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk21 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk22 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk23 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk24 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk25 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 vpath3 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver vpath4 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver hdisk2 Defined 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk2 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 root@ax-dco-tsm / # datapath query device Total Devices : 2 DEV#: 0 DEVICE NAME: vpath3 TYPE: 2105F20 SERIAL: 00719516 Path# Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select Errors 0 fscsi0/hdisk18 OPEN NORMAL 25 0 1 fscsi0/hdisk20 OPEN
Re: AIX question
The ODM is your last resort. I agree. I would try taking the definitions out of all of the classes of the ODM for those disks and then run cfgmgr again or reboot even, to see what happens. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Lundstedt Todd_Lundstedt@VIA-CTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HRISTI.ORG cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: AIX question Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/07/2003 10:35 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Becky (and Justin from another post), Both of you suggest that I first delete the offending disks... yet that is my exact problem. I can't delete them. When I try to rmdev them, I get an error indicating that there is not enough information to uniquely identify the device (rmdev -l 'hdisk2' -d ... but there are two hdisk2 devices). I was looking for a way to delete them other than rmdev. The AIX guru in our shop finally came up with something he remembered from his classes... odmget and odmdelete commands. They appear to allow one to more uniquely identify a single object, more so than rmdev. Are there any gotchas to consider while using odmget and odmdelete? Todd Davidson, BeckyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Becky.Davidson cc: @SLBG.COMFax to: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: AIX question Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 01/06/2003 06:47 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Delete the two hdisk again. Run cfgmgr again. Check it and if you see the same type of pattern of 1 vpath showing 4 and the other 2 showing only one then the shark guy needs to recheck his configuration. If you see a different pattern try running cfgmgr again. There was a problem awhile back that you need to run cfgmgr x's with x being the number of paths so that you would get all of the paths. Sometimes we have had to delete and run cfgmgr again because it doesn't seem to work right the first time. After delete and rerunning cfgmgr it seems to work better. Something you might want to get your hands on is the Shark Gotcha's document. I think it is still on the storage page but if not email me off list and I will send it to you. Another issue you might run into is that the devices may not be fully formatted. There was a version of the shark code that said that everything was formatted yet it wasn't. The only way you could tell was to go into the shark under where you configure paths and refresh the screen. good luck and let me know if I can be of further assistance Becky -Original Message- From: Todd Lundstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question First, let me say.. Dear Lord, the IBM web pages are a pain to dig through and find what you are looking for. Couldn't find any knowledge bases or anything to help me resolve the issue I have... so.. here goes. AIX 4.3.3 My TSM server is a pSeries with two Fibre Channel Adapters installed, through which we access data on the ESS (shark) and the LTO tape drives (I know, bad idea). Each of the fibre cards is connected to its own fibre switch. Each switch has two connections to the Shark (four data paths to the Shark). We have been trying to add some additional Shark storage to the TSM server. After the Shark guy did his thing, I ran cfgmgr, and thinks didn't look quite right. The two old vpath devices each showed four disks (hdsikX), two on each of the two fibre cards (fscsi1, fscsi0), just like they always have. One of the three new vpath devices showed four hdisks on two different fscsi devices, but the other two vpath devices only showed two hdisks, one on each fscsi. lscfg showed a bunch of new disks, mostly available, but four were defined. I decided to delete the three new vpath devices, and all of the associated hdisk devices, including the defined ones. As I got to looking, I saw something odd... root@ax-dco-tsm / # lsdev -Cc disk hdisk0 Available 10-88-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk1 Available 10-88-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk18 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk19 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk20 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk21 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk22 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk23 Available 10-78-01
AIX question
First, let me say.. Dear Lord, the IBM web pages are a pain to dig through and find what you are looking for. Couldn't find any knowledge bases or anything to help me resolve the issue I have... so.. here goes. AIX 4.3.3 My TSM server is a pSeries with two Fibre Channel Adapters installed, through which we access data on the ESS (shark) and the LTO tape drives (I know, bad idea). Each of the fibre cards is connected to its own fibre switch. Each switch has two connections to the Shark (four data paths to the Shark). We have been trying to add some additional Shark storage to the TSM server. After the Shark guy did his thing, I ran cfgmgr, and thinks didn't look quite right. The two old vpath devices each showed four disks (hdsikX), two on each of the two fibre cards (fscsi1, fscsi0), just like they always have. One of the three new vpath devices showed four hdisks on two different fscsi devices, but the other two vpath devices only showed two hdisks, one on each fscsi. lscfg showed a bunch of new disks, mostly available, but four were defined. I decided to delete the three new vpath devices, and all of the associated hdisk devices, including the defined ones. As I got to looking, I saw something odd... root@ax-dco-tsm / # lsdev -Cc disk hdisk0 Available 10-88-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk1 Available 10-88-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk18 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk19 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk20 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk21 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk22 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk23 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk24 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk25 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 vpath3 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver vpath4 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver hdisk2 Defined 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk2 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 root@ax-dco-tsm / # datapath query device Total Devices : 2 DEV#: 0 DEVICE NAME: vpath3 TYPE: 2105F20 SERIAL: 00719516 Path# Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select Errors 0 fscsi0/hdisk18 OPEN NORMAL 25 0 1 fscsi0/hdisk20 OPEN NORMAL 31 0 2 fscsi1/hdisk22 OPEN NORMAL 29 0 3 fscsi1/hdisk24 OPEN NORMAL 26 0 DEV#: 1 DEVICE NAME: vpath4 TYPE: 2105F20 SERIAL: 60219516 Path# Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select Errors 0 fscsi0/hdisk19 OPEN NORMAL 13465 0 1 fscsi0/hdisk21 OPEN NORMAL 13636 0 2 fscsi1/hdisk23 OPEN NORMAL 13567 0 3 fscsi1/hdisk25 OPEN NORMAL 13727 0 ++ Note the lines. I have two entries for hdisk2 and two for hdisk3. Smitty won't let me remove them (not enough information to uniquely identify the device) and similar error messages for change/show charactaristics. How can I remove hdisk2 and hdisk3? The 10-78 and 10-68 devices are the fibre cards. Thanks in advance Todd Lundstedt Technical Specialist Via Christi Information Management Services ofc. (316) 261-8385 fax. (316) 660-0036 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AIX question
# rmdev -dl hdisk# if that doesn't work then make sure the fibre channel adapter that only has those two disks on it and remove that with the -R option: # rmdev -R fibre_channel_adapter This will remove all child devices attached to the specified fibre card adapter. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Lundstedt Todd_Lundstedt@VIA-CTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HRISTI.ORG cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist Subject: AIX question Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/06/2003 05:49 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager First, let me say.. Dear Lord, the IBM web pages are a pain to dig through and find what you are looking for. Couldn't find any knowledge bases or anything to help me resolve the issue I have... so.. here goes. AIX 4.3.3 My TSM server is a pSeries with two Fibre Channel Adapters installed, through which we access data on the ESS (shark) and the LTO tape drives (I know, bad idea). Each of the fibre cards is connected to its own fibre switch. Each switch has two connections to the Shark (four data paths to the Shark). We have been trying to add some additional Shark storage to the TSM server. After the Shark guy did his thing, I ran cfgmgr, and thinks didn't look quite right. The two old vpath devices each showed four disks (hdsikX), two on each of the two fibre cards (fscsi1, fscsi0), just like they always have. One of the three new vpath devices showed four hdisks on two different fscsi devices, but the other two vpath devices only showed two hdisks, one on each fscsi. lscfg showed a bunch of new disks, mostly available, but four were defined. I decided to delete the three new vpath devices, and all of the associated hdisk devices, including the defined ones. As I got to looking, I saw something odd... root@ax-dco-tsm / # lsdev -Cc disk hdisk0 Available 10-88-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk1 Available 10-88-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk18 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk19 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk20 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk21 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk22 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk23 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk24 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk25 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 vpath3 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver vpath4 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver hdisk2 Defined 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk2 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 root@ax-dco-tsm / # datapath query device Total Devices : 2 DEV#: 0 DEVICE NAME: vpath3 TYPE: 2105F20 SERIAL: 00719516 Path# Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select Errors 0 fscsi0/hdisk18 OPEN NORMAL 25 0 1 fscsi0/hdisk20 OPEN NORMAL 31 0 2 fscsi1/hdisk22 OPEN NORMAL 29 0 3 fscsi1/hdisk24 OPEN NORMAL 26 0 DEV#: 1 DEVICE NAME: vpath4 TYPE: 2105F20 SERIAL: 60219516 Path# Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select Errors 0 fscsi0/hdisk19 OPEN NORMAL 13465 0 1 fscsi0/hdisk21 OPEN NORMAL 13636 0 2 fscsi1/hdisk23 OPEN NORMAL 13567 0 3 fscsi1/hdisk25 OPEN NORMAL 13727 0 ++ Note the lines. I have two entries for hdisk2 and two for hdisk3. Smitty won't let me remove them (not enough information to uniquely identify the device) and similar error messages for change/show charactaristics. How can I remove hdisk2 and hdisk3? The 10-78 and 10-68 devices are the fibre cards. Thanks in advance Todd Lundstedt Technical Specialist Via Christi Information Management Services ofc. (316) 261-8385 fax. (316) 660-0036 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AIX question
Delete the two hdisk again. Run cfgmgr again. Check it and if you see the same type of pattern of 1 vpath showing 4 and the other 2 showing only one then the shark guy needs to recheck his configuration. If you see a different pattern try running cfgmgr again. There was a problem awhile back that you need to run cfgmgr x's with x being the number of paths so that you would get all of the paths. Sometimes we have had to delete and run cfgmgr again because it doesn't seem to work right the first time. After delete and rerunning cfgmgr it seems to work better. Something you might want to get your hands on is the Shark Gotcha's document. I think it is still on the storage page but if not email me off list and I will send it to you. Another issue you might run into is that the devices may not be fully formatted. There was a version of the shark code that said that everything was formatted yet it wasn't. The only way you could tell was to go into the shark under where you configure paths and refresh the screen. good luck and let me know if I can be of further assistance Becky -Original Message- From: Todd Lundstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question First, let me say.. Dear Lord, the IBM web pages are a pain to dig through and find what you are looking for. Couldn't find any knowledge bases or anything to help me resolve the issue I have... so.. here goes. AIX 4.3.3 My TSM server is a pSeries with two Fibre Channel Adapters installed, through which we access data on the ESS (shark) and the LTO tape drives (I know, bad idea). Each of the fibre cards is connected to its own fibre switch. Each switch has two connections to the Shark (four data paths to the Shark). We have been trying to add some additional Shark storage to the TSM server. After the Shark guy did his thing, I ran cfgmgr, and thinks didn't look quite right. The two old vpath devices each showed four disks (hdsikX), two on each of the two fibre cards (fscsi1, fscsi0), just like they always have. One of the three new vpath devices showed four hdisks on two different fscsi devices, but the other two vpath devices only showed two hdisks, one on each fscsi. lscfg showed a bunch of new disks, mostly available, but four were defined. I decided to delete the three new vpath devices, and all of the associated hdisk devices, including the defined ones. As I got to looking, I saw something odd... root@ax-dco-tsm / # lsdev -Cc disk hdisk0 Available 10-88-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk1 Available 10-88-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk18 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk19 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk20 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk21 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk22 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk23 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk24 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk25 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 vpath3 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver vpath4 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver hdisk2 Defined 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk2 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 hdisk3 Defined 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 root@ax-dco-tsm / # datapath query device Total Devices : 2 DEV#: 0 DEVICE NAME: vpath3 TYPE: 2105F20 SERIAL: 00719516 Path# Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select Errors 0 fscsi0/hdisk18 OPEN NORMAL 25 0 1 fscsi0/hdisk20 OPEN NORMAL 31 0 2 fscsi1/hdisk22 OPEN NORMAL 29 0 3 fscsi1/hdisk24 OPEN NORMAL 26 0 DEV#: 1 DEVICE NAME: vpath4 TYPE: 2105F20 SERIAL: 60219516 Path# Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select Errors 0 fscsi0/hdisk19 OPEN NORMAL 13465 0 1 fscsi0/hdisk21 OPEN NORMAL 13636 0 2 fscsi1/hdisk23 OPEN NORMAL 13567 0 3 fscsi1/hdisk25 OPEN NORMAL 13727 0 ++ Note the lines. I have two entries for hdisk2 and two for hdisk3. Smitty won't let me remove them (not enough information to uniquely identify the device) and similar error messages for change/show charactaristics. How can I remove hdisk2 and hdisk3? The 10-78 and 10-68 devices are the fibre cards. Thanks in advance Todd Lundstedt Technical Specialist Via Christi Information Management Services ofc. (316) 261-8385 fax. (316) 660-0036 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AIX Question - Scripts
Hi Please could one of you look at my aix script to do a savevg backup and rootvg backupit does not run... What have I done wrong ? Thanks Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, BoE Ltd does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.boe.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm #!/bin/ksh # # Volume Group backup of sapvg # # Script Compiled by : Lindy Crawford Date: 20/05/2002 # # export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/scripts DATE=$(date +%d/%m/%y) CMD=$(echo $0|cut -c21-33) TIME=$(date +%Hh%M:%S) echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - SAPvg started. /tmp/services.log date /tmp/sapvg.log if savevg -f '/dev/rmt0' '-i' '-p' '-X' morsapvg -b '1024' /tmp/sapvg.log /tmp/sapvg.log 21 then echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - SAPvg completed successfully /tmp/services.log date /tmp/sapvg.log else echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - SAPvg failed /tmp/services.log fi tctl -f /dev/rmt0 rewoffl #!/bin/ksh # # System backup of rootvg - mksysb # # Script Compiled by : Lindy Crawford Date: 20/05/2002 # # export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/scripts DATE=$(date +%d/%m/%y) CMD=$(echo $0|cut -c21-33) TIME=$(date +%Hh%M:%S) echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - MksysB started. /tmp/services.log date /tmp/mksysb.log if mksysb -i -e -X -p /dev/rmt0 /tmp/mksysb.log /tmp/mksysb.log 21 then echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - MksysB completed successfully /tmp/services.log date /tmp/mksysb.log else echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - MksysB failed /tmp/services.log fi tctl -f /dev/rmt0 rewoffl
Re: AIX Question - Scripts
Try this path date . mksysb -i -e -X -p /dev/rmt0 /tmp/mksysb.log 21 if [ $? -eq 0 ] echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - MksysB completed successfully /tmp/services.log date /tmp/mksysb.log else echo $CMD:\t$DATE $TIME - MksysB failed /tmp/services.log fi tctl -f /dev/rmt0 rewoffl Jeroen -Original Message- From: Crawford, Lindy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question - Scripts Hi Please could one of you look at my aix script to do a savevg backup and rootvg backupit does not run... What have I done wrong ? Thanks Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, BoE Ltd does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.boe.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
Re: AIX Question - Scripts
Hi, look at your if condition. You should test for something there like if [ -x /bin/mksysb ]; then The same applies to the savevg script. What tape drive do you use? I would check that one before disabling software compression. cya Lars On 12.07.2002 10:22:41 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hi Please could one of you look at my aix script to do a savevg backup and rootvg backupit does not run... What have I done wrong ? Thanks Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, BoE Ltd does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.boe.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm - sapvg.txt - rootvg.txt
Re: AIX Question!
Hi. Not quite a tsm question, but try: ls | xargs rm though, it might take a while Ran. -Original Message- From: Al'shaebani, Bassam [mailto:Bassam.Al'[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question! Hello All, I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too long' message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with program*. There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message. Thanks.. Regards, Bassam
Antwort: AIX Question!
Hello Basam,
try
find directory -name program* -exec rm {} \;
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Hello All,
I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
long'
message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
program*.
There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to
something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message.
Thanks..
Regards,
Bassam
AIX Question!
Hello All, I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too long' message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with program*. There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message. Thanks.. Regards, Bassam
Re: AIX Question!
Hi,
I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
long'
message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
program*.
What about
find ./ -xdev -type f -name program* -exec rm {} \;
or
for file in `echo program*`; do rm $file; done
Dirk
Re: AIX Question!
Al'shaebani, Bassam wrote:
Hello All,
I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
long'
message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
program*.
There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to
something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message.
That's a shell issue, not necessarily an AIX issue. The problem is that
the shell is responsible for expanding the commandline parameters. Thus
typing *, the shell expands that to ALL the file that match (i.e. all of
them).
For instances like this, there are probably more ways than I have
fingers, but genrally one that will always work is using find. e.g.
find dir -name '*' -exec rm {} \;
Thanks..
Regards,
Bassam
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Re: AIX Question!
ls program* | xargs -n 20 rm Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Al'shaebani, Bassam wrote: Hello All, I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too long' message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with program*. There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message. Thanks.. Regards, Bassam
Re: AIX Question!
Just be aware that find will also go down subdirectories, so if you have
files with similar names in lower levels that you want to keep you have to
find another way. If there are no subdirs, or if the subdirs don't have
similar names then find works great.
Someone mentioned xargs. xargs works great and was faster in a test I saw
(but we are only talking fractions of a second per 1000 files :).
Another way is to ls filespec delthem. Then edit delthem and put rm in
front of every line. (Hint: in vi use :%s/^/rm /). This gives you very fine
control, but is slowest.
There are perl scripts (and I'm sure REXX, python, etc) that wrap around rm
and read the directory to handle large directories.
I could go on, but
Have fun!
Kai.
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Subject: Re: AIX Question!
Al'shaebani, Bassam wrote:
Hello All,
I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
long'
message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
program*.
There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to
something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message.
That's a shell issue, not necessarily an AIX issue. The problem is that
the shell is responsible for expanding the commandline parameters. Thus
typing *, the shell expands that to ALL the file that match (i.e. all of
them).
For instances like this, there are probably more ways than I have
fingers, but genrally one that will always work is using find. e.g.
find dir -name '*' -exec rm {} \;
Thanks..
Regards,
Bassam
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find directory pattern | xargs rm
This would be faster if really many files have to be processed.
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try
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Hello All,
I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
long'
message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
program*.
There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to
something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message.
Thanks..
Regards,
Bassam
More of an AIX question
I'm doing a little cleanup of some things and I need to move 2 physical disks, hdisk4 and hdisk20, from one volume group to another. Hdisk20 has nothing on it any longer, hdisk4 has 1 PP assigned as a loglv02 jfslog. I need to re-assign them in a different volumegroup and can't seem to find how to do that. They are not mounted, except it seems the jfslog. Any help on getting these moved from one vg to another would be appreciated. I need to use them to add database space and mirror it. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Re: More of an AIX question
I won't cover all the fine details here, email me directly if need help with AIX SMIT but here's quick details. You don't reassign, you delete from one VG then add to another. First do an lspv command at AIX prompt and see if these two disks are part of a Volume Group - hdisk4 most likely is. If not a part of a VG then assign to one. For hdisk4, you need to make sure the jfslog is mirrored to another disk before you remove - unless this is the only disk in this VG -in that case delete VG. After mirroring jfslog then delete the lvcopy on this disk, then remove disk from Volume Group. (fastpath = smit vgsc). David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/24/02 07:14PM I'm doing a little cleanup of some things and I need to move 2 physical disks, hdisk4 and hdisk20, from one volume group to another. Hdisk20 has nothing on it any longer, hdisk4 has 1 PP assigned as a loglv02 jfslog. I need to re-assign them in a different volumegroup and can't seem to find how to do that. They are not mounted, except it seems the jfslog. Any help on getting these moved from one vg to another would be appreciated. I need to use them to add database space and mirror it. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154 MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 04/24/02 19:44:47 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
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I would see if I have any file system with 1pp size free what ever is the size.I will copy all data there under that directory since u have very small data .Make sure copy -p with -r option .Check all is copied well. Now reducevg and remodisks from vg .Now create the vg u need to create and create lv and filesystem and do what u want. U can reduce vg by removing disk that does not have anything on it after umount the filesystems AND deleting them. Using one disk create vg lv and file system .Copy from one file system to another. Balnanad -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: More of an AIX question I'm doing a little cleanup of some things and I need to move 2 physical disks, hdisk4 and hdisk20, from one volume group to another. Hdisk20 has nothing on it any longer, hdisk4 has 1 PP assigned as a loglv02 jfslog. I need to re-assign them in a different volumegroup and can't seem to find how to do that. They are not mounted, except it seems the jfslog. Any help on getting these moved from one vg to another would be appreciated. I need to use them to add database space and mirror it. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Re: TSM on AIX question.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:06:13 -0700, it was written: I would agree, I/O is typically the bottleneck. Use as many spindles (disks) as possible for your storage pool, log and DB volumes. To be more precise, use as many spindles which are controlled by as many SCSI/SSA/whatever adapters as you can get on your TSM server. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
TSM on AIX question.
Good morning everyone. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. TSM 4.1.3 on OS/390 2.10 backing up the following clients AIX, NT, Novell, Win95, Win98, OS/2 (no not a misprint), OS/390 USS and SunSolaris. We are moving about 280GB over night and we then execute the storage pool copies, expiration and reclamation during the day. Some of our Domino clients (no we are not using TDP) take about 20 - 23 hours to backup. The TSM data base is currently 37.5GB and running at 78% utilization. Our primary storage pools are 70GB, 13GB, 5GB and 1GB. We have 8 STK 9840 cartridge drives in a Powderhorn Silo and are using RMM to manage tapes and are running migrations at night along with the backups. I know that it would be faster to stage everything to DASD and then migrate to tape but I do not have the DASD capacity to accomplish this.. My question is how large would my AIX box need to be to accomplish these same backups more efficiently? Any input is 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: TSM on AIX question.
I'll take a 'best guess'... The area where you should concentrate more resources is on the I/O capacity of the server. It looks like you have six (database, log and four disk storage pools) 'chunks' of disk to configure, not to mention the adapters to connect to the STK and the ethernet adapters. First count the number of adapters that you have/need. I would think you have at least two of each. Do you prefer SCSI or SSA disks? RAID levels make a big difference in performance. Next find a AIX server with at least as many PCI slots as adapters you need, watch out for the number of 64 bit slots (if you have 64-bit adapters) and look at the number of buses with the box. I currently use a Silver Node (in an SP) for my TSM server (this is the same as an H50 or F50). It has 4 CPU's and 2 GB of memory, it works well, but our environment is a little smaller. It has 3 SCSI, 1 SSA, 3 ethernet, 1 Switch adapters. I would like to upgrade it, when I do I plan to go to a 6H1. For you I wouldn't go with anything smaller. The M80 is good choice and if you really want performance a 680 is at the top of the scale. I know of one shop that uses a S70 for ONLY their TSM server. But like I said focus on the I/O. Miles --- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19-Sep-01 6:41:05 AM Good morning everyone. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. TSM 4.1.3 on OS/390 2.10 backing up the following clients AIX, NT, Novell, Win95, Win98, OS/2 (no not a misprint), OS/390 USS and SunSolaris. We are moving about 280GB over night and we then execute the storage pool copies, expiration and reclamation during the day. Some of our Domino clients (no we are not using TDP) take about 20 - 23 hours to backup. The TSM data base is currently 37.5GB and running at 78% utilization. Our primary storage pools are 70GB, 13GB, 5GB and 1GB. We have 8 STK 9840 cartridge drives in a Powderhorn Silo and are using RMM to manage tapes and are running migrations at night along with the backups. I know that it would be faster to stage everything to DASD and then migrate to tape but I do not have the DASD capacity to accomplish this.. My question is how large would my AIX box need to be to accomplish these same backups more efficiently? Any input is 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: TSM on AIX question.
BrIan, One thing you need to be aware of is that if you are going to be sharing the STK drives across operating systems, then you will run into software issues (Library Station/Nettape etc), which may not be easy to resolve. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric and Southern Electric are trading names of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: TSM on AIX question.
Brian, If you considering just migration from OS/390 to AIX box, then you need same resources but if you want new platform to cut backup and restore times then you need more communication channels from server to library and faster DASD storage. If you design 4 channels(FC/SCSI) from server to library for 8 drives you backups will be more faster. For future growth TSM database(50 Gig mirrored) and disk pool( 300 Gig RAID-5) should be of more capacity. I think 2 processor(500MHz), 2 Gig RAM, Gigabit network for backup is good point to start. You need to put additional network adapter in heavily used server and design backup network. Thank you, Bandu Vibhute, George Weston Bakeries Inc. Voice: 631-951-5212, Cell: 516-702-0323 -Original Message- From: Brian L. Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM on AIX question. Good morning everyone. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. TSM 4.1.3 on OS/390 2.10 backing up the following clients AIX, NT, Novell, Win95, Win98, OS/2 (no not a misprint), OS/390 USS and SunSolaris. We are moving about 280GB over night and we then execute the storage pool copies, expiration and reclamation during the day. Some of our Domino clients (no we are not using TDP) take about 20 - 23 hours to backup. The TSM data base is currently 37.5GB and running at 78% utilization. Our primary storage pools are 70GB, 13GB, 5GB and 1GB. We have 8 STK 9840 cartridge drives in a Powderhorn Silo and are using RMM to manage tapes and are running migrations at night along with the backups. I know that it would be faster to stage everything to DASD and then migrate to tape but I do not have the DASD capacity to accomplish this.. My question is how large would my AIX box need to be to accomplish these same backups more efficiently? Any input is 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 MMS Server baking.bestfoods.com made the following annotations on 09/19/2001 07:42:43 AM - The origin of this electronic mail message was the Internet. George Weston Bakeries Inc. cannot validate the authenticity of the sender and therefore cannot be held accountable for any content within. === MMS Server baking.bestfoods.com made the following annotations on 09/19/2001 11:28:12 AM - This message may contain confidential and trade secret information of George Weston Bakeries Inc., and be subject to the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. For recipient's use only. If you have received this message in error, please delete immediately, and alert the sender. ===
Re: TSM on AIX question.
I think Miles gave a great answer, that is just the approach I would take. We are currently running 500 clients on a dedicated F50, 2 processors, 1 GB memory, 4 STK 9840 tape drives in an STK 9710 robot. TSM is at 4.1.3 2 network adapters, one GB ethernet, one 100MB ethermet. Clients are primarly Win2K WinNT; some Win95, Win98, AIX, OS/2, MAC. We back up about 140 GB a day; 10 GB is from one data base, the rest is all small stuff. The small stuff actually has more impact on your server than big chunks of data from data bases. Total storage is 5 TB on site, 5 TB offsite. The DB is 30 GB, 82% full. Currently have 2 buses for the 9840's. When the load was smaller I had the DB on RAID; had to give that up to get more speed and go to physical mirrors. Disk is some SCSI-RAID in an external RAID cabinet (slow, used only for storage pool), SSA disk, internal Ultra SCSI disk - essentially anything I can get my hands on, spread across 4 adapters. Total of 130 GB in the disk storage pool. The good news - as a former mainframe storage and performance person, I can tell you that you will be very pleased with the performance you get out of AIX - I don't think you will have any problem at all, the I/O just screams. TSM isn't actually very CPU-intensive when it comes to backups. Our F50 is just cruising along most of the time. We're getting a bit tight on time schedules, but the problem is reclaims, and expiration, not backups themselves. Again this is because we do 130 GB of small files every day. If I had a bigger robot, and could reclaim less often, there would be no issue at all. Miles is right I think, in that for a system your size you should be concerned about I/O more than anything. More good news - you will be able to afford a lot more disk on an AIX box. Our last buy was for 3 - 18 GB drives, less than $5K. Remember that, just like on OS/390, bigger drives aren't necessarily always better- make sure you buy enough disks (not just enough space) to physically mirror your DB (preferably across different adapters). Make sure the RS6000 you buy is expandable so you can add adapters, as well as disk, if you need to spread your I/O some more. Good luck! 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: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM on AIX question. I'll take a 'best guess'... The area where you should concentrate more resources is on the I/O capacity of the server. It looks like you have six (database, log and four disk storage pools) 'chunks' of disk to configure, not to mention the adapters to connect to the STK and the ethernet adapters. First count the number of adapters that you have/need. I would think you have at least two of each. Do you prefer SCSI or SSA disks? RAID levels make a big difference in performance. Next find a AIX server with at least as many PCI slots as adapters you need, watch out for the number of 64 bit slots (if you have 64-bit adapters) and look at the number of buses with the box. I currently use a Silver Node (in an SP) for my TSM server (this is the same as an H50 or F50). It has 4 CPU's and 2 GB of memory, it works well, but our environment is a little smaller. It has 3 SCSI, 1 SSA, 3 ethernet, 1 Switch adapters. I would like to upgrade it, when I do I plan to go to a 6H1. For you I wouldn't go with anything smaller. The M80 is good choice and if you really want performance a 680 is at the top of the scale. I know of one shop that uses a S70 for ONLY their TSM server. But like I said focus on the I/O. Miles --- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19-Sep-01 6:41:05 AM Good morning everyone. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. TSM 4.1.3 on OS/390 2.10 backing up the following clients AIX, NT, Novell, Win95, Win98, OS/2 (no not a misprint), OS/390 USS and SunSolaris. We are moving about 280GB over night and we then execute the storage pool copies, expiration and reclamation during the day. Some of our Domino clients (no we are not using TDP) take about 20 - 23 hours to backup. The TSM data base is currently 37.5GB and running at 78% utilization. Our primary storage pools are 70GB, 13GB, 5GB and 1GB. We have 8 STK
Re: TSM on AIX question.
I would like to say that I did test by increasing RAM for increasing data transfer rate and backups went faster by 4 times.On EMC one need not bother for RAID OR MIRROR. Good morning everyone. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. TSM 4.1.3 on OS/390 2.10 backing up the following clients AIX, NT, Novell, Win95, Win98, OS/2 (no not a misprint), OS/390 USS and SunSolaris. We are moving about 280GB over night and we then execute the storage pool copies, expiration and reclamation during the day. Some of our Domino clients (no we are not using TDP) take about 20 - 23 hours to backup. The TSM data base is currently 37.5GB and running at 78% utilization. Our primary storage pools are 70GB, 13GB, 5GB and 1GB. We have 8 STK 9840 cartridge drives in a Powderhorn Silo and are using RMM to manage tapes and are running migrations at night along with the backups. I know that it would be faster to stage everything to DASD and then migrate to tape but I do not have the DASD capacity to accomplish this.. My question is how large would my AIX box need to be to accomplish these same backups more efficiently? Any input is 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: TSM on AIX question.
Just be aware that ACSLS adapters are presently unsupported if you decide to do lan-free backups. Regds, Mauricio PINNI, BALANAND To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SBCSI) cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM on AIX question. M Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 19/09/01 12:33 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We are using same drives (STK 9840)with ACSLS on HP/SUN/AIX/NT and AIX with no problem. ACSLS Server is on one of SUN Box. Is there is anything I need to look into?I don't have problems even with restoration. -Original Message- From: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM on AIX question. BrIan, One thing you need to be aware of is that if you are going to be sharing the STK drives across operating systems, then you will run into software issues (Library Station/Nettape etc), which may not be easy to resolve. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric and Southern Electric are trading names of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: TSM on AIX question.
We are using same drives (STK 9840)with ACSLS on HP/SUN/AIX/NT and AIX with no problem. ACSLS Server is on one of SUN Box. Is there is anything I need to look into?I don't have problems even with restoration. -Original Message- From: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM on AIX question. BrIan, One thing you need to be aware of is that if you are going to be sharing the STK drives across operating systems, then you will run into software issues (Library Station/Nettape etc), which may not be easy to resolve. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric and Southern Electric are trading names of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: TSM on AIX question.
I would agree, I/O is typically the bottleneck. Use as many spindles (disks) as possible for your storage pool, log and DB volumes. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miles Purdy Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM on AIX question. I'll take a 'best guess'... The area where you should concentrate more resources is on the I/O capacity of the server. It looks like you have six (database, log and four disk storage pools) 'chunks' of disk to configure, not to mention the adapters to connect to the STK and the ethernet adapters. First count the number of adapters that you have/need. I would think you have at least two of each. Do you prefer SCSI or SSA disks? RAID levels make a big difference in performance. Next find a AIX server with at least as many PCI slots as adapters you need, watch out for the number of 64 bit slots (if you have 64-bit adapters) and look at the number of buses with the box. I currently use a Silver Node (in an SP) for my TSM server (this is the same as an H50 or F50). It has 4 CPU's and 2 GB of memory, it works well, but our environment is a little smaller. It has 3 SCSI, 1 SSA, 3 ethernet, 1 Switch adapters. I would like to upgrade it, when I do I plan to go to a 6H1. For you I wouldn't go with anything smaller. The M80 is good choice and if you really want performance a 680 is at the top of the scale. I know of one shop that uses a S70 for ONLY their TSM server. But like I said focus on the I/O. Miles --- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19-Sep-01 6:41:05 AM Good morning everyone. I have been asked to look into possibly moving our TSM 4.1.3 server on OS/390 to an AIX box. I would appreciate any information that you can provide. Here is our existing OS/390 TSM server set up. TSM 4.1.3 on OS/390 2.10 backing up the following clients AIX, NT, Novell, Win95, Win98, OS/2 (no not a misprint), OS/390 USS and SunSolaris. We are moving about 280GB over night and we then execute the storage pool copies, expiration and reclamation during the day. Some of our Domino clients (no we are not using TDP) take about 20 - 23 hours to backup. The TSM data base is currently 37.5GB and running at 78% utilization. Our primary storage pools are 70GB, 13GB, 5GB and 1GB. We have 8 STK 9840 cartridge drives in a Powderhorn Silo and are using RMM to manage tapes and are running migrations at night along with the backups. I know that it would be faster to stage everything to DASD and then migrate to tape but I do not have the DASD capacity to accomplish this.. My question is how large would my AIX box need to be to accomplish these same backups more efficiently? Any input is 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: AIX Question
How do you redirect error report resource names to a shell script. I have a shell script that will send emails on resource names from the errpt but I don't know how to pass those resource names to the shell script. Richard - I'm not completely clear on what you're after, but you can surely do something like 'errpt -a | awk ...' to process the current contents of the AIX Error Log. Access can be a lot more sophisticated as well: I have a sample C program which illustrates how to directly report from the Error Log, which I needed to figure out for a component for an AIX system monitoring facility I wrote. If interested, email me directly and I'll send you a copy. Richard Sims, BU
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Re: AIX Question
After making modification to /etc/inittab, issue the command telinit q. -- From: Gill, Geoffrey L.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 5:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question For all you AIX guru's out there, I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to refresh what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been stopped without restarting the computer? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: AIX Question
Geoff, under aix you only use lsitab (to list inittab) chitab (to change the inittab) mkitab (to make a new inittab entry) and rmitab (to remove an inittab entry) every time one of these commands alters the inittab it is fully refreshed ! later, Dwight -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question For all you AIX guru's out there, I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to refresh what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been stopped without restarting the computer? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: AIX Question
Hi I understand that init 2 will do .init q may enable terminals only if i am right. pl look at man init . BALANAND PINNI. PHONE 314-206-5911. EM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PG:1-800-451-6897. -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question For all you AIX guru's out there, I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to refresh what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been stopped without restarting the computer? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI).vcf
AIX Question
For all you AIX guru's out there, I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to refresh what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been stopped without restarting the computer? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: AIX Question
As root run the command init q (without the quotes). Chris Anderson WIC Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct Dial 402-573-3350 402-573-1000 Ext. 7523 -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question For all you AIX guru's out there, I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to refresh what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been stopped without restarting the computer? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: AIX Question
Geoff, Ordinarily, I'd say man telinit. Except, of course, AIX has been continually making the online documentation more and more of a pain for old-school Unix folks to use. /gripe You're looking for telinit q. This tells the init command to re-examine the /etc/inittab file. It's standard SysV behavior. =Dave Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: For all you AIX guru's out there, I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to refresh what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been stopped without restarting the computer? -- Hello World.David Bronder - Systems Admin Segmentation Fault ITS-SPA, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AIX Question
Don't ever edit inittab directly AIX has some nice commands to do this (mkitab chitab lsitab) If you are asking how to I restart dsmc sched or dsmserv, I use this in ksh chitab $(lsitab label | sed s/once/respawn/) where label is the inittab label of the item to restart wait a minute for the command to start and then change it back with chitab $(lsitab label | sed s/respawn/once/) Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/05/2001 7:27:20 For all you AIX guru's out there, I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to refresh what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been stopped without restarting the computer? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
AIX Question
I'm new to the AIX world so forgive me if the question seems stupid. I installed two nic cards in my H70 running AIX 4.3.3. Both are on different ip subnets. Everytime I set the default gateway for the second nic card it changes the default gateway on the first card to be the same as the second. Am I doing something wrong. It won't let me set two different default gateways for each card. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management (312) 996-3941.
Re: AIX Question
Rich, give Matt a call at 834-4321. He can walk you thru it. At 09:52 AM 4/26/2001 -0500, you wrote: I'm new to the AIX world so forgive me if the question seems stupid. I installed two nic cards in my H70 running AIX 4.3.3. Both are on different ip subnets. Everytime I set the default gateway for the second nic card it changes the default gateway on the first card to be the same as the second. Am I doing something wrong. It won't let me set two different default gateways for each card. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management (312) 996-3941.
Re: AIX Question
Richard, You can only have one default gateway, also know as route of last resort. To accomplish what you want, you must set up a static network route for each subnet, not a default route. You also may need to set a route to any subnets that attach to the subnets attached to the NICs in the H70. The interface for these routes will be the NIC attached to the proper subnet. Here's and example: en0: 192.168.0.1 en1: 192.168.1.1 Route Tree: route destinationinterface --- default192.168.0.2en0 192.168.0 192.168.0.2en0 192.168.1 192.168.1.2en1 In this example, the default route goes to a device on the 192.168.0 network. This would be because that network connects to the rest of the world (eg. the internet). HTH --David Nash Systems Administrator The GSI Group - Original Message - From: Dearman, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:52 AM Subject: AIX Question I'm new to the AIX world so forgive me if the question seems stupid. I installed two nic cards in my H70 running AIX 4.3.3. Both are on different ip subnets. Everytime I set the default gateway for the second nic card it changes the default gateway on the first card to be the same as the second. Am I doing something wrong. It won't let me set two different default gateways for each card. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management (312) 996-3941.
Re: AIX Question
By definition, you can only have one default gateway. David Taylor Senior Software Systems Engineer West Bend Mutual Insurance (262) 335-7077 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question I'm new to the AIX world so forgive me if the question seems stupid. I installed two nic cards in my H70 running AIX 4.3.3. Both are on different ip subnets. Everytime I set the default gateway for the second nic card it changes the default gateway on the first card to be the same as the second. Am I doing something wrong. It won't let me set two different default gateways for each card. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management (312) 996-3941. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: AIX Question
According to the release material I've read, AIX5L will allow multiple default gateways. You might check if this is back-ported to some patch level for AIX 433. Rick On 26 Apr 2001, at 10:42, Taylor, David wrote: By definition, you can only have one default gateway. David Taylor Senior Software Systems Engineer West Bend Mutual Insurance (262) 335-7077 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Question I'm new to the AIX world so forgive me if the question seems stupid. I installed two nic cards in my H70 running AIX 4.3.3. Both are on different ip subnets. Everytime I set the default gateway for the second nic card it changes the default gateway on the first card to be the same as the second. Am I doing something wrong. It won't let me set two different default gateways for each card. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management (312) 996-3941. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
This is an AIX question: How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working directory)?? Someone out there must know this. Using AIX 4.3.3 Ken Ken Sedlacek Kyrus Corporation Office: 864-322-4260; Cell: 864-444-8375 Text Page: 864-444-7243, follow prompts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyrus IT Support (Internal: 4399) (Greenville: 864-322-4399) (Toll-Free: 888-413-4399)
Re: AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
Ken,
I have the folowing in my /etc/profile to handle this:
if [[ "$LOGNAME" = "root" ]]
then
PS1='# '"$(hostname)"':${PWD}=='
fi
This puts the hostname followed by a : followed by the current
directory.
Tom Melton
Emory HealthCare
Emory University
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/24/01 02:50PM
This is an AIX question:
How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working
directory)??
Someone out there must know this.
Using AIX 4.3.3
Ken
Ken Sedlacek
Kyrus Corporation
Office: 864-322-4260; Cell: 864-444-8375
Text Page: 864-444-7243, follow prompts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kyrus IT Support (Internal: 4399) (Greenville: 864-322-4399)
(Toll-Free: 888-413-4399)
Re: AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
I use the following in my /.profile. We have user and host also since we work on as many as 20 different nodes in a day and want to make sure we're in the right place! PS1='$LOGNAME@$HOSTNAME:$PWD# ' export PS1 Hope this helps- Gail -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Sedlacek Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question: how to display "pwd" at root prompt?? This is an AIX question: How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working directory)?? Someone out there must know this. Using AIX 4.3.3 Ken Ken Sedlacek Kyrus Corporation Office: 864-322-4260; Cell: 864-444-8375 Text Page: 864-444-7243, follow prompts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyrus IT Support (Internal: 4399) (Greenville: 864-322-4399) (Toll-Free: 888-413-4399)
Re: AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
This is an AIX question: How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working directory)?? Hey, this is an ADSM forum, not AIX. ;-) It depends upon the shell you use. Tcsh is popular because of its usability features. There, I use: set prompt = "%U%n@%m:%~%u "; in my .tcshrc to give me a prompt of the form Username@Systemname:Currentdir Richard
Re: AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
This is what I use:
PS1=$(uname -a):${LOGNAME}':${PWD#$HOME/}:! '
export PS1
This looks like the following:
node_name:root:/tmp:300
The 300 on the end is the number in .sh_history that the next command will
get.
Hope this helps
--
Phillip Ford
Senior Software Specialist
Corporate Computer Center
Schering-Plough Corp.
(901) 320-4462
(901) 320-4856 FAX
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-Original Message-
From: Ken Sedlacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX question: how to display "pwd" at root prompt??
This is an AIX question:
How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working
directory)??
Someone out there must know this.
Using AIX 4.3.3
Ken
Ken Sedlacek
Kyrus Corporation
Office: 864-322-4260; Cell: 864-444-8375
Text Page: 864-444-7243, follow prompts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kyrus IT Support (Internal: 4399) (Greenville: 864-322-4399)
(Toll-Free: 888-413-4399)
Re: AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
Ken one additional line needs to be added prior to the one I sent you HOST='hostname' -Original Message- From: Ken Sedlacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question: how to display "pwd" at root prompt?? This is an AIX question: How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working directory)?? Someone out there must know this. Using AIX 4.3.3 Ken Ken Sedlacek Kyrus Corporation Office: 864-322-4260; Cell: 864-444-8375 Text Page: 864-444-7243, follow prompts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyrus IT Support (Internal: 4399) (Greenville: 864-322-4399) (Toll-Free: 888-413-4399)
Re: AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
In the .profile of root, insert an entry export PS1=$(hostname -s):' $PWD' I am assuming you are having KSH -Original Message- From: Ken Sedlacek [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question: how to display "pwd" at root prompt?? This is an AIX question: How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working directory)?? Someone out there must know this. Using AIX 4.3.3 Ken Ken Sedlacek Kyrus Corporation Office: 864-322-4260; Cell: 864-444-8375 Text Page: 864-444-7243, follow prompts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyrus IT Support (Internal: 4399) (Greenville: 864-322-4399) (Toll-Free: 888-413-4399)
Re: Another AIX question
Ok all you AIX guru's, here's another easy one for you. I need to find out where there are files I can safely delete on the server. There must be a bunch filling this up because the last time this happened I just extended the size with a "chfs -a size=+10 /usr" Here is what a df -k shows me # df -k Filesystem1024-blocks Free %UsedIused %Iused Mounted on ... /dev/hd2 901120 51528 95%2861913% /usr ... I need to find out where I can delete files that may not be needed that are either growing in size or some type of temp file. Now remember I, as before, I need specifics since I'm in the dard with AIX. I need something I can use to search the drive if possible for types of files that are safe to delete, and another command to delete those types of files throught the tree if possible too. Geoff - In AIX, /usr is dominated by program product files, which is to say static stuff rather than transient cruft as in /var. You can use smit and/or lslpp to list installed products and consider what might be uninstalled as unneeded. If you commit uncommitted products that you definitely want, that will dispose of some saved stuff. You can also scan for recent stuff that might be debris as in the following, which seeks files less than a week old and stays within /usr when doing so: find /usr -xdev -mtime -7 -ls Overall, though, you need an AIX person there to be looking after your AIX system: working on root volume group file systems as a casual tourist is dangerous. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Another AIX question
One place to look for things that are growing in /usr is TSM: If you have TSM accounting turned on, the accounting data goes to /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmaccnt.log by default. That file will continue to grow. There is some way in TSM 3.7, I think, to direct the accounting file to another directory. Or what we do is have a cron script that copies the file off to another place on the 1st of the month, then clears out the one in the server directory. Also the client code, if you have it running, may be creating dsmerror.log and dsmsched.log in the install directory, which is /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin. You can direct those elsewhere by setting options in the dsm.sys file. 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: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another AIX question Overall, though, you need an AIX person there to be looking after your AIX system: working on root volume group file systems as a casual tourist is dangerous. Richard Sims, BU Richard, Everyone take a deep breath before you laughI am the AIX person. I'm sure you all started with the same knowledge of AIX as me. I know I'm very much lacking in this area, but I got this server dumped on me without any notice. I'm just one of the NT guys and could take care of ADSM/TSM easily if it were on that OS. Unfortunately it's not...or should I say fortunately. Not only do I feel AIX is a better platform for TSM, it has given me a chance to expand my knowledge. From what I can tell AIX is not as widespread as many of the Unix platforms, and I don't know anything about them either, but it still seems like a stable and robust OS. The company has given me an IBM education card that allows me to take as many classes as I want in the next year. I don't know how many I can shove into this pea brain during that time, with all the work I have to do, but I plan on using the first book at least. Hopefully I can learn enough to get comfortable. I'm not one to go off and start mucking around in an area I have no knowledge of. That's why I call AIX support and am constantly asking, what may seem to some, simple little questions. But I'd rather look stupid asking them instead of looking stupid rebuilding something I screwed up because I didn't ask. As always, thanks for all the help. You guys are great. Geoff Gill NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC Computer Systems Group E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: Another AIX question
...Since you were asking about freeing space in a filesystem, /usr, I think, note that /usr typically runs in the 90% full range, unless you specifically enlarge is. It is static, except for upgrade/install time, during which, smit will enlarge it automatically as needed. Steven, Thanks for that answer, I was wondering how I was going to do this upgrade to 3.7 with that little free space. By the way, if an upgrade was made would there be any files from the download that might be still around I could delete? I know you have to delete the executables from NT after you're done. I have actually done a few installs, with AIX supports help, but we never went through that after we were done. Where might I look and what type of extension would they have??? Could these files actually reside on another mount point and have been installed from there??? Geoff Gill NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC Computer Systems Group E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Another AIX question
Ok all you AIX guru's, here's another easy one for you. I need to find out where there are files I can safely delete on the server. There must be a bunch filling this up because the last time this happened I just extended the size with a "chfs -a size=+10 /usr" Here is what a df -k shows me # df -k Filesystem1024-blocks Free %UsedIused %Iused Mounted on /dev/hd449152 19196 61% 1503 7% / /dev/hd2 901120 51528 95%2861913% /usr /dev/hd9var 49152 32648 34% 434 4% /var /dev/hd332768 313645% 60 1% /tmp /dev/hd116384 11904 28% 286 7% /home /dev/dsmdblv120512768 7578436 64% 19 1% /adsmdb1 /dev/dsmdblv1_m20512768 7578436 64% 19 1% /adsmdb1_m /dev/dsmlglv1 2097152100932 96% 22 1% /adsmlog1 /dev/dsmlglv1_m 2097152 1006212 53% 18 1% /adsmlog1_m /dev/stg01lv 35520512 2148576 94% 18 1% /adsmstg01 /dev/stg02lv 35520512 2148576 94% 18 1% /adsmstg02 /dev/stg03lv 35520512 1124536 97% 19 1% /adsmstg03 /dev/stg04lv 35520512 1124536 97% 19 1% /adsmstg04 /dev/backuplv 1310720842708 36% 18 1% /backup /dev/local_lv 163840 27312 84% 3128 8% /usr/local /dev/stg07lv 34537472684380 99% 18 1% /adsmstg07 /dev/stg08lv 35520512612532 99% 18 1% /adsmstg08 /dev/stg09lv 35520512612532 99% 18 1% /adsmstg09 /dev/stg10lv 35520512612532 99% 18 1% /adsmstg10 /dev/stg11lv 35520512612532 99% 18 1% /adsmstg11 /dev/stg12lv 35520512612532 99% 18 1% /adsmstg12 /dev/stg13lv 35520512612532 99% 18 1% /adsmstg13 /dev/stg14lv 35520512612532 99% 18 1% /adsmstg14 /dev/stg06lv 34537472684380 99% 18 1% /adsmstg06 /dev/stg05lv 35520512612524 99% 19 1% /adsmstg05 Ï need to find out where I can delete files that may not be needed that are either growing in size or some type of temp file. Now remember I, as before, I need specifics since I'm in the dard with AIX. I need something I can use to search the drive if possible for types of files that are safe to delete, and another command to delete those types of files throught the tree if possible too. Any words of wisdom is always welcome too. Thanks, Geoff Gill NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC Computer Systems Group E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
magstar 3494 / 3590 / AIX question
Support just got back to me. They suggest using: Atape 5.0.2 atldd 4.0.7 under AIX 4.2.1. I'll do that. At 10:25 AM -0400 8/10/00, Richard Cowen wrote: I am currently running: AIX 4.2.1 ADSM 3.1.2.55 Atape 4.4.0.0 atldd 4.0.1.0 3590 B1A's. I am going to upgrade the 3590's to E1A's. The newest drivers are: Atape 5.3.7 atldd 4.1.5 The question: Can I stay at AIX 4.2.1 and run these newer drivers? Smitty install doesn't complain. I have a call into Support, but its currently in the software-hardware loop. -- Richard
Re: magstar 3494 / 3590 / AIX question
Make sure that you read closely the doc supplied by IBM on going from B1A's to E1A's. It is a major change and the ADSM admin we had when we did it didn't implement it correctly and we are still trying to recover. If you don't have it let me know and I will send it to you. -Original Message- From: Richard Cowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: magstar 3494 / 3590 / AIX question I am currently running: AIX 4.2.1 ADSM 3.1.2.55 Atape 4.4.0.0 atldd 4.0.1.0 3590 B1A's. I am going to upgrade the 3590's to E1A's. The newest drivers are: Atape 5.3.7 atldd 4.1.5 The question: Can I stay at AIX 4.2.1 and run these newer drivers? Smitty install doesn't complain. I have a call into Support, but its currently in the software-hardware loop. -- Richard
Re: magstar 3494 / 3590 / AIX question
Make sure that you read closely the doc supplied by IBM on going from B1A's to E1A's. It is a major change and the ADSM admin we had when we did it didn't implement it correctly and we are still trying to recover. If you don't have it let me know and I will send it to you. Becky, I am also interested in the docs your have for B1A - E1A migration. We are planning to upgrade in the near future. Thanks. -- Eliza Lau Virginia Tech Computing Centeremail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Virginia Polytechnic Institute State University 1700 Pratt Drive Blacksburg VA 24060 phone : (540) 231-9399 --
