Document storage (ignore the first paragraph if you like)

2012-06-06 Thread Geoff Gill
Hello,
While I've interviewed for numerous positions the past 2 years, up until now I 
had been passed over for someone with more recent experience. So giving up a 
5 day a week zamboni job with little pay and 5am start times was actually hard 
to do when I got the call, believe it or not. It was also difficult leaving 
because the CHL team just added 4 retired NHL players as owners/coaches/team 
advisers, and a new coach, which means this team is going to be even more 
competitive in the future. Craig Ludwig, Richard Matvichuk (Assistant coach), 
Ed Belfour and Mike Modano, Along with current owner Steve Duchesne, will bring 
real talent to the team, which is the very reason I would prefer to be at the 
rink every day instead of sitting at home. 

Anyway, I have just been given a 6 month engagement to help with TSM at a local 
site here in Dallas. I get to work from home but currently do not have a laptop 
or access to the environment. While waiting I've been asked to brush up on TSM 
DB restores, which I have done on 5.5, and TSM Library Manager/Lib Client 
configuration, which I am not familiar with, so I'm looking for the current IBM 
document storage site, while looking for responses I'll certainly look myself 
but wanted to try to make contact with those of you familiar with the Library 
Manager. I don't have information as to the version(s) of TSM I'll be dealing 
with but as I recall the site, as it used to be configured, allowed you to 
select quite easily. And while I've kept most of my notes from the past I don't 
have links to those places I used to get information. Again, since I have never 
worked with the TSM Library Manager/Lib Client config it's going to be from 
scratch learning. 

Currently I only receive a single ADSM-L daily email, so I will probably change 
that to get a more real time response update to questions I might post. 


Please feel free to send me info or questions directly, email below, off topic 
hockey questions are always welcome. I know Richard is quite close to some 
great hockey, he most certainly knows his TSM though, which is what this list 
is for obviously.


Thank You for any info you can send my way
Geoff Gill
avalnch...@yahoo.com



Re: Document storage (ignore the first paragraph if you like)

2012-06-06 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Geoff.  Congrats.  Let's see if we can get you hitting the ground 
running.


Because I'm often on customer computers without access to the Internet 
from my own laptop, I Google:

 tivoli storage manager 6.3 information center
I take the first option, and when the infocenter comes up, I click 
Printable PDF documentation and download the pdfs to the customer's 
workstation.  I use Firefox with DownloadThemAll to make it a pretty 
fast and easy process.


For the support site, I google:  tivoli storage manager support portal

Maintenance and Patches are at:  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com  Tivoli 
Storage Management


Library manager/client is pretty easy.  Here's the recipe.
1) Configure server-to-server communications
2)  Define library on library manager
a) define library lib1 libtype=scsi shared=yes
b) define path server1 lib1 as usual
c) define drive/path for all drives as usual
e) label/checkin libvol
3) Look at the serial numbers or wwpns of the drives (q drive f=d)
4) Configure each library client (e.g. server2)
a) define library lib1 libtype=shared primarylibmanager=server1
b) figure out which drives go with which rmts based on #3
c)  Log into server1, issue a bunch of define path statements for 
server2

d)  Test

Some notes:
On libmgr (server1), q libvol f=d, observe owner information
update libvol A12345L5 owner=server2  (might be necessary some day)
With libraries with many drives (VTLs) or clients, #3, #4b, and #4c are 
best scripted.


Once upon a time, running audit library from a library client would wipe 
out all the owner information for all the libvols owned by other library 
clients.  I don't know if that's been fixed.  Since then, I've just 
created scripts to simply update libvol the owner information for all 
the appropriate libvols if it was ever necessary.


Good luck!
Alex


On 6/6/2012 7:13 AM, Geoff Gill wrote:

Hello,
While I've interviewed for numerous positions the past 2 years, up until now I had been passed over for someone with more recent experience. So giving up a 5 day a week zamboni job with little pay and 5am start times was actually hard to do when I got the call, believe it or not. It was also difficult leaving because the CHL team just added 4 retired NHL players as owners/coaches/team advisers, and a new coach, which means this team is going to be even more competitive in the future. Craig Ludwig, Richard Matvichuk (Assistant coach), Ed Belfour and Mike Modano, Along with current owner Steve Duchesne, will bring real talent to the team, which is the very reason I would prefer to be at the rink every day instead of sitting at home. 

Anyway, I have just been given a 6 month engagement to help with TSM at a local site here in Dallas. I get to work from home but currently do not have a laptop or access to the environment. While waiting I've been asked to brush up on TSM DB restores, which I have done on 5.5, and TSM Library Manager/Lib Client configuration, which I am not familiar with, so I'm looking for the current IBM document storage site, while looking for responses I'll certainly look myself but wanted to try to make contact with those of you familiar with the Library Manager. I don't have information as to the version(s) of TSM I'll be dealing with but as I recall the site, as it used to be configured, allowed you to select quite easily. And while I've kept most of my notes from the past I don't have links to those places I used to get information. Again, since I have never worked with the TSM Library Manager/Lib Client config it's going to be from scratch learning. 


Currently I only receive a single ADSM-L daily email, so I will probably change 
that to get a more real time response update to questions I might post.


Please feel free to send me info or questions directly, email below, off topic 
hockey questions are always welcome. I know Richard is quite close to some 
great hockey, he most certainly knows his TSM though, which is what this list 
is for obviously.


Thank You for any info you can send my way
Geoff Gill
avalnch...@yahoo.com




Re: Document storage (ignore the first paragraph if you like)

2012-06-06 Thread Remco Post
regarding 3:

1- sandiscovery should help resolve this
2- to avoid sandiscovery I've created a shell script to rename the tape devices 
based on serial or wwpn so each drive has the same name on every server.


On 6 jun. 2012, at 19:12, Alex Paschal wrote:

 Hi, Geoff.  Congrats.  Let's see if we can get you hitting the ground running.
 
 Because I'm often on customer computers without access to the Internet from 
 my own laptop, I Google:
 tivoli storage manager 6.3 information center
 I take the first option, and when the infocenter comes up, I click Printable 
 PDF documentation and download the pdfs to the customer's workstation.  I 
 use Firefox with DownloadThemAll to make it a pretty fast and easy process.
 
 For the support site, I google:  tivoli storage manager support portal
 
 Maintenance and Patches are at:  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com  Tivoli Storage 
 Management
 
 Library manager/client is pretty easy.  Here's the recipe.
 1) Configure server-to-server communications
 2)  Define library on library manager
a) define library lib1 libtype=scsi shared=yes
b) define path server1 lib1 as usual
c) define drive/path for all drives as usual
e) label/checkin libvol
 3) Look at the serial numbers or wwpns of the drives (q drive f=d)
 4) Configure each library client (e.g. server2)
a) define library lib1 libtype=shared primarylibmanager=server1
b) figure out which drives go with which rmts based on #3
c)  Log into server1, issue a bunch of define path statements for server2
d)  Test
 
 Some notes:
 On libmgr (server1), q libvol f=d, observe owner information
 update libvol A12345L5 owner=server2  (might be necessary some day)
 With libraries with many drives (VTLs) or clients, #3, #4b, and #4c are best 
 scripted.
 
 Once upon a time, running audit library from a library client would wipe out 
 all the owner information for all the libvols owned by other library clients. 
  I don't know if that's been fixed.  Since then, I've just created scripts to 
 simply update libvol the owner information for all the appropriate libvols 
 if it was ever necessary.
 
 Good luck!
 Alex
 
 
 On 6/6/2012 7:13 AM, Geoff Gill wrote:
 Hello,
 While I've interviewed for numerous positions the past 2 years, up until now 
 I had been passed over for someone with more recent experience. So giving 
 up a 5 day a week zamboni job with little pay and 5am start times was 
 actually hard to do when I got the call, believe it or not. It was also 
 difficult leaving because the CHL team just added 4 retired NHL players as 
 owners/coaches/team advisers, and a new coach, which means this team is 
 going to be even more competitive in the future. Craig Ludwig, Richard 
 Matvichuk (Assistant coach), Ed Belfour and Mike Modano, Along with current 
 owner Steve Duchesne, will bring real talent to the team, which is the very 
 reason I would prefer to be at the rink every day instead of sitting at 
 home. 
 Anyway, I have just been given a 6 month engagement to help with TSM at a 
 local site here in Dallas. I get to work from home but currently do not have 
 a laptop or access to the environment. While waiting I've been asked to 
 brush up on TSM DB restores, which I have done on 5.5, and TSM Library 
 Manager/Lib Client configuration, which I am not familiar with, so I'm 
 looking for the current IBM document storage site, while looking for 
 responses I'll certainly look myself but wanted to try to make contact with 
 those of you familiar with the Library Manager. I don't have information as 
 to the version(s) of TSM I'll be dealing with but as I recall the site, as 
 it used to be configured, allowed you to select quite easily. And while I've 
 kept most of my notes from the past I don't have links to those places I 
 used to get information. Again, since I have never worked with the TSM 
 Library Manager/Lib Client config it's going to be from scratch learning. 
 Currently I only receive a single ADSM-L daily email, so I will probably 
 change that to get a more real time response update to questions I might 
 post.
 
 
 Please feel free to send me info or questions directly, email below, off 
 topic hockey questions are always welcome. I know Richard is quite close to 
 some great hockey, he most certainly knows his TSM though, which is what 
 this list is for obviously.
 
 
 Thank You for any info you can send my way
 Geoff Gill
 avalnch...@yahoo.com
 
 

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
r.p...@plcs.nl
+31 6 248 21 622


Re: Document storage (ignore the first paragraph if you like)

2012-06-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Remco,

Can we see/have your script?  We came up with a similar solution and would
like to compare notes.  By san discovery, do you mean the TSM server
option?


Zoltan Forray
TSM Software  Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
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From:   Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:   06/06/2012 03:52 PM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Document storage (ignore the first paragraph
if you like)
Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU



regarding 3:

1- sandiscovery should help resolve this
2- to avoid sandiscovery I've created a shell script to rename the tape
devices based on serial or wwpn so each drive has the same name on every
server.


On 6 jun. 2012, at 19:12, Alex Paschal wrote:

 Hi, Geoff.  Congrats.  Let's see if we can get you hitting the ground
running.

 Because I'm often on customer computers without access to the Internet
from my own laptop, I Google:
 tivoli storage manager 6.3 information center
 I take the first option, and when the infocenter comes up, I click
Printable PDF documentation and download the pdfs to the customer's
workstation.  I use Firefox with DownloadThemAll to make it a pretty fast
and easy process.

 For the support site, I google:  tivoli storage manager support portal

 Maintenance and Patches are at:  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com  Tivoli
Storage Management

 Library manager/client is pretty easy.  Here's the recipe.
 1) Configure server-to-server communications
 2)  Define library on library manager
a) define library lib1 libtype=scsi shared=yes
b) define path server1 lib1 as usual
c) define drive/path for all drives as usual
e) label/checkin libvol
 3) Look at the serial numbers or wwpns of the drives (q drive f=d)
 4) Configure each library client (e.g. server2)
a) define library lib1 libtype=shared primarylibmanager=server1
b) figure out which drives go with which rmts based on #3
c)  Log into server1, issue a bunch of define path statements for
server2
d)  Test

 Some notes:
 On libmgr (server1), q libvol f=d, observe owner information
 update libvol A12345L5 owner=server2  (might be necessary some day)
 With libraries with many drives (VTLs) or clients, #3, #4b, and #4c are
best scripted.

 Once upon a time, running audit library from a library client would wipe
out all the owner information for all the libvols owned by other library
clients.  I don't know if that's been fixed.  Since then, I've just
created scripts to simply update libvol the owner information for all
the appropriate libvols if it was ever necessary.

 Good luck!
 Alex


 On 6/6/2012 7:13 AM, Geoff Gill wrote:
 Hello,
 While I've interviewed for numerous positions the past 2 years, up
until now I had been passed over for someone with more recent
experience. So giving up a 5 day a week zamboni job with little pay and
5am start times was actually hard to do when I got the call, believe it or
not. It was also difficult leaving because the CHL team just added 4
retired NHL players as owners/coaches/team advisers, and a new coach,
which means this team is going to be even more competitive in the future.
Craig Ludwig, Richard Matvichuk (Assistant coach), Ed Belfour and Mike
Modano, Along with current owner Steve Duchesne, will bring real talent to
the team, which is the very reason I would prefer to be at the rink every
day instead of sitting at home.
 Anyway, I have just been given a 6 month engagement to help with TSM at
a local site here in Dallas. I get to work from home but currently do not
have a laptop or access to the environment. While waiting I've been asked
to brush up on TSM DB restores, which I have done on 5.5, and TSM Library
Manager/Lib Client configuration, which I am not familiar with, so I'm
looking for the current IBM document storage site, while looking for
responses I'll certainly look myself but wanted to try to make contact
with those of you familiar with the Library Manager. I don't have
information as to the version(s) of TSM I'll be dealing with but as I
recall the site, as it used to be configured, allowed you to select quite
easily. And while I've kept most of my notes from the past I don't have
links to those places I used to get information. Again, since I have never
worked with the TSM Library Manager/Lib Client config it's going to be
from scratch learning.
 Currently I only receive a single ADSM-L daily email, so I will
probably change that to get a more real time response update to questions
I might post.


 Please feel free to send me info or questions directly, email below,
off topic hockey questions are always welcome. I know Richard is quite
close to some