Sean P. O'Malley/Household International is out of the office.

2001-09-07 Thread Sean O'Malley
I will be out of the office from 09/07/2001 until 09/11/2001. I will respond to your message when I return.

TSM NT Performance Statistics - Help Please

2001-09-07 Thread MORGAN TONY
Hi Everyone in the World (Don't want to miss anyone and offend them!!), I am currently trying to improve performance on my NT only TSM backups and need to see what other sites are achieving as throughput. If you have an NT environment similar to mine, I would appreciate the results from the

Re: 3494 sharing

2001-09-07 Thread Cook, Dwight E
With the 3494, if purchased and installed with RS232 host communication method, you will need an MES to upgrade to TCP/IP communication method. Need to make sure you have the drivers for the tape drives library... see ftp site index.storsys.ibm.com in the /devdrvr directory or somewhere down

Re: Client node admin

2001-09-07 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
GRANT AUTHORITY admin_name CLASSES=NODE AUTHORITY=OWNER NODENAME=client_node If you look at the end of REGISTER ADMIN command description you can find other relevant commands. One of them is GRANT AUTHORITY and you can look what exactly it does. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Diana Noble

Re: Tivoli vs Arcserve 2000

2001-09-07 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
In arc serv u need not use BMR as in tivoli. -Original Message- From: Scott G Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tivoli vs Arcserve 2000 I know that I probably should do this, but I can't help myself. I am trying

scheduler missed

2001-09-07 Thread Guan, Phillip
Hello all, Our OS system engineer has a cron job to move the dsmsched.log to another name every morning at 6:00AM, the node is scheduled to run at 3:15AM and it takes about 20 minutes. This morning at 8:30, I found the node missed backup and cannot find out the moved dsmsched.log file and there

Re: scheduler missed

2001-09-07 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
What is the randomisation set to ?u can set it to Zero. -Original Message- From: Guan, Phillip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: scheduler missed Hello all, Our OS system engineer has a cron job to move the dsmsched.log

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2001-09-07 Thread Sandeep Tyagi
Hello, Which environment variable we have to set in order to set the values of MAXOBJ(for 3.7) and TSMMAXOBJ(for 4.x) in XBSA API? Actually I am in the process of recertification of TSM 4.2on AIX. butc is our program which uses XBSA - API's. When I started butc with appropriate options it

What's a Kilobyte, in TSM terms?

2001-09-07 Thread Lindsay Morris
Of course it's 1024. But some applications, esp storage-related, like to use 1000 (and 1,000,000 for MB, etc.) What does TSM use? Anybody know for sure? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal Applied System Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 859-253-8000 Fax:

Re: Backup of EMC

2001-09-07 Thread rh
I'll bite, what's NDMP? Rod Hroblak ADP --- Joshua S. Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you say NDMP? Available Sept 29th on Windows and who knows when for UNIX TSM servers. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified

Re: Licensing Server Components

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Did you check the REGISTER LICENSE command syntax in the TSM Administrator's Reference? It has the syntax and tells you the .lic file names (in your ..\TSM\server directory) you need to use. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes

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2001-09-07 Thread Sandeep Tyagi
Hello, Can anubody please tell me the location from where I can download the binaries of TSM client 4.2 for AIX 5.1 ? Sandeep K Tyagi

Licensing Server Components

2001-09-07 Thread Mills, John
All, I just bought a copy of TDP for MS Exchange and I need to license it for the TSM server. How do I do that? I understand I need to REGISTER LICENSE FILE, but the TDP disk doesn't have a .lic file on it. Do I need to edit one of my current .lic files? John T. Mills AIX

Re: Licensing Server Components

2001-09-07 Thread Mills, John
Thanks! That did the trick. -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Licensing Server Components Did you check the REGISTER LICENSE command syntax in the TSM Administrator's

Re: TSM client 4.2 for AIX 5.1

2001-09-07 Thread Richard Sims
Can anubody please tell me the location from where I can download the binaries of TSM client 4.2 for AIX 5.1 ? http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adclaix.htm says that the 4.2 client should work under AIX 5L, but the corresponding TSM420_README.AIX43 file inconsistently fails to

TDP for Oracle question

2001-09-07 Thread Thiha Than
hi, Yes it should. But I recommend using 2.1.10 (fixtest 1). You can download it from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/tivoli-data-protection/oracle regards, Thiha Does anyone know if Oracle 8.1.7 works with TDP for Oracle v2.1.9. Tia

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Use RAID 1+0 FOR PERF AND AVILABILITY. -Original Message- From: Martin JF (DTI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Hi, We do RAID on our TSM server. RAID-5 for DiskPools, RAID-1 for DB et

Re: Backup of EMC

2001-09-07 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
NDMP = Network Data Management Protocol In short it is a way to backup NAS filers. -- 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

Re: What's a Kilobyte, in TSM terms?

2001-09-07 Thread Richard Sims
Of course it's 1024. But some applications, esp storage-related, like to use 1000 (and 1,000,000 for MB, etc.) What does TSM use? Anybody know for sure? Lindsay - It is typically only disk drive manufacturers that express a kilobyte as 1,000 bytes. Software and tape drive makers

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff Bach
How many multi processor clients do you run on one server with this setup? -Original Message- From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Importance: High

Re: Backup of EMC

2001-09-07 Thread Richard Sims
I'll bite, what's NDMP? NDMPNetwork Data Management Protocol. NDMP provides a protocol framework for data management in a multi-vendor data

Re: TSM NT Performance Statistics - Help Please

2001-09-07 Thread Rajesh Oak
Tony, What version of TSM are you working on? Have you implemented TSM mirroring for db or log? That would give us a better picture of your setup. Rajesh Oak -- On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:42:18 MORGAN TONY wrote: Hi Everyone in the World (Don't want to miss anyone and offend them!!), I am

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread Martin JF (DTI)
Hi, We do RAID on our TSM server. RAID-5 for DiskPools, RAID-1 for DB et RECLOG. By using RAID, we don't mirror our database because this become redundant. JF Martin -Original Message- From: Stephen A. Cochran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 4-Sep-01 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
RAID-1 = mirroring -- 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 Martin JF

Re: schedmode: polling vs. prompting

2001-09-07 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
One of the reasons I always use server prompted is because it is the only scheduling mode that support immediate client actions which can come in handy sometimes. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
S-80 IBM SYSTEMS -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools How many multi processor clients do you run on one server with this setup? -Original Message-

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Sorry for that . Why this limitation? I have 40 clients. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools How many clients ... 300 ... 50 ... 100 will backup to this

Re: ESS and Flashcopy for backups

2001-09-07 Thread Kavita Shah
Hi Bill, If you are trying to backup an Oracle database that resides on an ESS [to TSM] using flashcopy, then you may want to consider using a product that does this for you. It is called TDP for ESS for Oracle, is available on AIX, and takes care of the Oracle/ESS/AIX/TSM steps for you. This is

Re: Command Output in the Activity log

2001-09-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
Not for selects! What if someone does SELECT * FROM BACKUPS, just to find out the appropriate field names? -Original Message- From: Matthew Large [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Command Output in the Activity log

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff Bach
The two largest instances of ADSM I have backup 250 full size clients (N, L class HP, H80, M50, mulitple processor NT) I have never found a great way to compare database setups. # of clients is somewhat valid ... What limitation do you speak of? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From:

Re: Command Output in the Activity log

2001-09-07 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Uhmmm I don't think you would want all that ! Could end up in an infinate loop ! ! ! what if you did a q act begind=-7 endd=today if all the output were put in the log, you have just increased your activity log (space occupied in your db) by the last 7 days. If you only keep 7 days, you've just

Authoritative Restore on W2K

2001-09-07 Thread taford
Has anyone successfully done an authoritative restore using 4.1.2.12 of TSM on W2K? -Tim

Re: What's a Kilobyte, in TSM terms?

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Well, there is always the try it and see method of getting an answer :-) But to answer your question: if you specify 100K, you will get 102,400 byte files. In general, we 1,024 bytes = 1 KB. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development

Command Output in the Activity log

2001-09-07 Thread Matthew Large
Hi all, While I was trawling through a customers activity log, it occured to me that my job would be much easier if the output of all the admin commands and select statements entered at the command line and web interface was included in the activity log. Does anyone agree with me? If you do, I

Re: What's a Kilobyte, in TSM terms?

2001-09-07 Thread Lindsay Morris
Thanks, Andy. (Too lazy to try it... - knew you'd be there for me :-} ) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's a Kilobyte, in TSM

Re: What's a Kilobyte, in TSM terms?

2001-09-07 Thread Lindsay Morris
Thanks, Richard. But I was hoping for an authoritative answer from Tivoli. Maybe I should rephrase the question: If I say: define devcl file devtype=file maxcap=100K Then what's the maximum amount of data I can store there: 100,000 or 102,400 ? -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
This is only with one server.There are several servers with several clients in this environment. I think what should matter is db size that not only depends on no: of clients,but also on amount of data changed during backup.There is a formula in Tivoli Implementation Red Book. I also use EMC

AIX DB2 backup problem with 4.2.0 client

2001-09-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
My AIX person wanted me to pass on the following error messages. We started getting these when we upgraded the client to 4.2.0 from 4.1.3 (this was done to resolve some other issue. Not sure what !). Any one see this one or have a clue what to do ? Did not see anything in the readme's about

Re: AIX DB2 backup problem with 4.2.0 client

2001-09-07 Thread Francisco Molero
Hi, I am not sure if TSM support DB2 version 5 and TSM API version 4.2. In any case TSM 4.2 can work with API 4.1.3. Then you need to uninstall the api and install the former version. Fran --- Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My AIX person wanted me to pass on the following error

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-07 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
For more than 1000 Clients : Server HP LX8500r 8xPIII 700 2MB, 4GB Ram, Lan 1Gb/s, W2K Adv, STKL700 6xDLT (LTO in future), 6 Diff Scsi Channel Disk : OS :2x18GB RAID 1 DB+Log :6x18GB RAID 5 DISKPOOL : 6x18GB RAID 5 Each Raid Volume is

Re: TDPS in a cluster

2001-09-07 Thread LeBlanc, Patricia
Anyone know of a Redbook for clustering in the Windows2000 environment? We're using Tivoli client 4.1.2.12 on a windows2000 server. -Original Message- From: Glen Churchfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDPS

TSM not grabbing scratch volumes as needed

2001-09-07 Thread Johnn D. Tan
Something's wrong. Normally, when one of the storagepools runs out of filling tapes, and an operation is run that requires a filling tape, TSM will usually grab a scratch volume and use it. It is not doing that anymore for any of our storage pools. We have to manually define a scratch volume to

Re: Command Output in the Activity log

2001-09-07 Thread Alex Paschal
Hmm... I agree with Wanda and Dwight. Definitely not in the Activity Log. However, if there were an option you could turn on in the dsmserv.opt to have all your proposed output directed to the server's stdout, you could easily capture it with dsmulog or whatever else you might like to use.

Re: TSM not grabbing scratch volumes as needed

2001-09-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
What error are you getting? Something like out of space in stgpool x? Check the properties of the storage pool; look at the MAXSCRATCH parameter. TSM will never grab more scratch tapes than you have specified there. Just bump the number up. -Original Message- From: Johnn D. Tan

Re: ESS and Flashcopy for backups

2001-09-07 Thread Kavita Shah
Hi Bill, Here' s the Tivoli website describing TDP for ESS for Oracle, the product I mentioned yesterday. Please note that this product currently does not support Oracle Parallel Server. http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/data_protect_ess/index.html Regards Kavita Shah IBM Corporation

Re: Command Output in the Activity log

2001-09-07 Thread Joel Fuhrman
I would use it in scripts; especially my scripts which manage offsite volumes. On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Alex Paschal wrote: Hmm... I agree with Wanda and Dwight. Definitely not in the Activity Log. However, if there were an option you could turn on in the dsmserv.opt to have all your proposed

Re: Command Output in the Activity log

2001-09-07 Thread Joel Fuhrman
At times it would be useful. It could be implemented as a form of the redirect ( TSMLOG) or an option like -log On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Cook, Dwight E wrote: Uhmmm I don't think you would want all that ! Could end up in an infinate loop ! ! ! what if you did a q act begind=-7 endd=today if all