Web GUI through SSH tunnel

2003-02-28 Thread Guillaume Gilbert
Hi all I am trying to use the web client through an ssh tunnel. I've configured my port forwarding to connect to port 1581 on the remote machine. I can see the console with the 4 options (backup, restore, archive,retrieve) but when I click one of them, I get error ANS2600S, blah blah connection

Re: Problem while using "move drmedia"

2003-02-28 Thread Orville Lantto
Before the APAR, the Search=yes parameter allowed TSM to grab all tapes, not just those with category FF00. The APAR fixed this misbehavior which apparently was introduced at 4.2.1. Grabbing ALL the tapes in the library, regardless of their category, including tapes with other "libraries" data on

Re: Problem while using "move drmedia"

2003-02-28 Thread Allen Barth
Please explain more, as I don't see how anything would change. Inserted tapes in a 3494 go to category FF00 which means "who wants to adopt me?" Are there some additional parms now in TSM to allow the search=yes and "tapes that begin with xxx" which work for a 3494? I admit I haven't looked rec

Re: Problem while using "move drmedia"

2003-02-28 Thread Allen Barth
BTDT! I use this AIX script: (modified for your volsers) cp /dev/null temp.file for volid in `mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -qC -sff00|grep ^AIX|cut -c-6` do echo "checkin libv 3494vts $volid status=scratch checklabel=no" >> temp.file done dsmadmc -id=... -pass=... macro temp.file Tommy Templeton <

Re: Problem while using "move drmedia"

2003-02-28 Thread Orville Lantto
This "Volume Stealing" behavior was discovered by a client of mine in March 2002. the symptoms were that TSM did not restrict itself to the category codes it is configured for. In TSM, the application, NOT the library, is responsible to respect the category rules. Upgrade TSM to 4.2.1.13 to get

install scripts for 5.1.X

2003-02-28 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Hello all, does anyone know if there is a way to keep the installer from erroring on tivguid/"some_non_en_us_language"\*.cat files not found ? I use the msiexec statement for my installs, and I had been deleting all the extra language directories and files from my install source to save space. B

Re: Problem while using "move drmedia"

2003-02-28 Thread Tommy Templeton
Thanks Orville. I did another test today. Here are the results. I think my problem is the "SEARCH=YES" option. I will be leaving that off now. The volumes that start with VT don't belong in my library. All of mine start with AIX. 02/28/03 13:26:19 ANR2017I Administrator TSM issued command: CH

Re: Converting I/O station into regular slots

2003-02-28 Thread Bill Boyer
WHen I added capacity to a 3583 library I had to reboot the WIn2k server itself to get the change recognized in TSM. I tried just restarting TSM, but I think it was more of a SCSI/driver issue. After the reboot of the Win2k server, TSM recognized the new slots. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original

Re: Overriding Options File

2003-02-28 Thread Orville Lantto
The command line option -optfile is the easiest to use. On AIX this means becoming familiar with the Server Stanza options in the dsm.sys file and creating multiple stanzas. Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. (http://www.datatrend.com) IBM Premier Business Partner 121 Cheshire Lane,

Re: Overriding Options File

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Sims
>Is there a way to override the options file on a scripted backup so as to >backup all data whether or not it is usually? I thought this was considered >in as Selective but tests prove otherwise. Explore the DSM_* environment variables, such as DSM_CONFIG . Richard Sims, BU

Re: Client side Multi HBA Configuration

2003-02-28 Thread Cermak, Frank S
We utilize Sun/Solaris as the TSM server, Emulex LP9002 and drivers with an IP over fibre configuration. Would like to add an additional HBA to increase throughput. What TSM configuration changes to the DMS.opt should be considered and are there potential issues might crop up? Is that too generic,

TDP for SAP, Solaris 8 Environment, Restore Failures and Configur ation Questions

2003-02-28 Thread Bruce Lowrie
We are experiencing and interesting problem on our TDP for R3 restores. We have an old E4000 being used as a development system. We are at Solaris 8 patch 17. TIVsmCapi - 4.2.1 TIVsmCba - 4.2.1 and TDP/R3ora64 - 3.2.0.11. We back up fine. On restore, things start out good. We use netstat to monitor

Re: Overriding Options File

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Can you be more specific? What exactly is your usual backup scenario, and what exactly would you like to do differently? If you're talking about overriding include/exclude statements, see my post from yesterday on the "Multiple include exclude files" subject. I've also posted in the past on this;

Re: Problem while using "move drmedia"

2003-02-28 Thread Orville Lantto
This may be a manifestation of the following APAR. This was repaired in 4.2.1.13 <@> IC33056 TSM 4.2.1 3494 CATEGORIES SCRATCH PRIVATE INSERT When multiple TSM V4.2.1 Servers are using the same partitioned 3494 Tape Library it is possible for a volume to get checked into the wrong server. As

Re: 5.1.6.2 Upgrade

2003-02-28 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Hi Gretchen (and Gerhard), Hope this finds you doing well. We've sure missed you at SHARE! Question: Have you done anything new to "protect" yourself from a "bad" maintenance level? Was there something special in 5.1.5 or 5.1.6 that attracted you to upgrade so soon? I have a customer wanting v5,

Overriding Options File

2003-02-28 Thread Rob Hefty
Hello all, Is there a way to override the options file on a scripted backup so as to backup all data whether or not it is usually? I thought this was considered in as Selective but tests prove otherwise. Thanks, Rob Hefty IS Operations Lab Safety Supply (608)757-4998

Re: Migration of TSM DB from AIX 4.3 32 bit kernel env to AIX 5L 64 bit kernel env

2003-02-28 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
I believe a simple import should work for ya. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Innaccurate Elapsed Processing Time

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Off-hand, I do not know what the problem could be, at least for the non-4.1.2 nodes. For the 4.1.2 nodes, I would recommend upgrading to the latest client levels (or at least something that is supported. as 4.1 is no longer supported). For the 4.2 or higher clients: Do the same clients exhibit th

Innaccurate Elapsed Processing Time

2003-02-28 Thread Dameon White
Sorry about the omitted Subject line. Andy, There are several nodes that are 4.1.2.x that are having >the issues. But, there are also several Win2k nodes with >client code 4.2.2.0 that are also experiencing this issue Dameon. You do not indicate which version of the TSM client you >are running

Tivoli Storage Resource Reporting

2003-02-28 Thread Jin Bae Chi
Hi, all I'm runnig a TSM 4.2 for LAN servers and another TSM 4.2 for SAN servers. I heard Tivoli has a good product about disk storage reporting from LAN and SAN. Anyone using any good reporting and managing software from Tivoli? My main interest is all disk utilization from LAN and SAN attached s

Re: Fragmented Database Maybe?

2003-02-28 Thread Farren Minns
Hi Lee I'll look into that. However, we have a 50GB backupool. Would this not be affected too? Thanks Farren Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:       [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:        Re: Frag

Re: Fragmented Database Maybe?

2003-02-28 Thread Thomas A. La Porte
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Farren Minns wrote: >Hi Richard and thanks for the response. [...] >However, the reason for my post was more that I was concerned about the >number of bytes moved figures (below). The 5000Mb volume is either plainly >being shown incorrectly, or perhaps something more serious

TSM on Linux - need mt driver for 2.4.19 kernel

2003-02-28 Thread Rolf Meyer
Hello, I use TSM server 5.1.5 on SuSE 8.1 (no tapes connected) without problems in an experimental environment. Now I got a tape charger and want to use it, but the scsi driver is only for 2.4.18 kernel. Has anyone out there a driver version for 2.4.19 (do IBM plan to compile it on that level?)

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2003-02-28 Thread Andrew Raibeck
You do not indicate which version of the TSM client you are running. This is important, as the elapsed processing time is being reported to the servr by the client. There was a problem back in version 4.1.2 where elapsed processing time was not being reported correctly (it was too short, as you ar

Fragmented Database Question 2

2003-02-28 Thread Farren Minns
Hi Again Regarding the TSM DB, wouldn't the 'Used' and 'Total Usable Pages' figures help to point to a fragmentation problem. The output fro our DB is as follows:- Available Space (MB):                         10,000        Assigned Capacity (MB):         8,500        Maximum Extension (MB):    

inaccurate values for elapsed processing time

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Sims
Dameon - When posting, please include an email Subject for tracking the thread. >...Does anyone know of a more accurate place one should find such data? Have you compared your TSM Accounting Records data with the numbers being seen in the ANE activity log entries? Traditionally, the Accounting R

Re: Fragmented Database Maybe?

2003-02-28 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Looks like you have hit a 4gb limit. I forget the parm, but if you are using newfs or mkfs to create database volumes, there is "largefiles" (I think) which allows file sizes above 4gb. Using solaris 8 here, and have two db volumes of 6gb each. Works fine. Hope this helps.

Re: Fragmented Database Maybe?

2003-02-28 Thread Farren Minns
Hi Richard and thanks for the response. I know I was vague about the performance and we have spent the day doing all sorts of tests to see what improvements can be made. When we have been runnings test backups of small file systems, there has been no  activity on the server at all. However, the r

Fragmented Database Maybe?

2003-02-28 Thread Farren Minns
Hi All TSMers I'm Running TSM 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 server (E250 400Mhz, 1GB mem). We have been having severe performance issues recently and moved our database volumes off onto a new disk. To do this we formatted a new db volume and copy, and then we deleted the original ones. TSM immediately

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2003-02-28 Thread Dameon White
My TSM server is 4.2.3.0 on AIX 4.3.3 I am seeing inaccurate values for elapsed processing time for multiple os platforms, multiple os levels, and multiple tsm client levels. I have included one example. Has anyone else seen similar inaccuracies? If looking to see how long my backup took, I assum

Re: Fragmented Database Maybe?

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Sims
>I'm Running TSM 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 server (E250 400Mhz, 1GB mem). >We have been having severe performance issues recently and moved our database >volumes off onto a new disk... You haven't cited the cause-effect case which would motivate such a change. Are you certain that is the problem a

Cache Hit Percentage

2003-02-28 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Since upgrading to TSM 5.1.6.2 on AIX 4.3.3 I have now noticed my cache hit percentage drops below 98% every day. Reset bufpool brings it back to 100.00% but after 24 hours it will again be below 98%. While on TSM 5.1.5.2 it was rarely below 98.5%. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Geoff Gill TS

Re: configuring a disk storage volume how

2003-02-28 Thread Coviello, Paul
thanks I checked and it set for -1 Paul -Original Message- From: Allen Barth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: configuring a disk storage volume how Paul, try this: Under smit->user->change/show chariceristics of a u

Re: configuring a disk storage volume how

2003-02-28 Thread GUILLAUMONT Etienne
if you didn't touch the /etc/security/limits file, you should. You just have to edit it and change the fsize parameter to -1, in the default stanza or just for the user who creates the file Etienne GUILLAUMONT e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] RGB Technologie Parc d'Innovation, Bâtiment PYTHAGORE 11 Ru

Re: configuring a disk storage volume how

2003-02-28 Thread Allen Barth
Paul, try this: Under smit->user->change/show chariceristics of a user for root, what is the soft file size limit? Been bit by this before. Setting it to -1 (negative one) removes any filesize limitations. Regards, Al "Coviello, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Hung Client/Filespaces

2003-02-28 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am trying not to do this. As I mentioned, I am testing IMPORT MERGE FILESPACES. So, I have already performed BACKUPS to this server and was trying to import ARCHIVEs. If I have to, I will deleted everything, but I would like to know what is going on and why ? If I have this problem with my pr

Re: Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
To all that responded my question : many, many thanks !! TSM server is up and running again, and I'm (almost) dancing on my desk ... For a first experience, it was a good one ! I love TSM ;-) Wish you all a nice W.E. Cheers. Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arn

Migration of TSM DB from AIX 4.3 32 bit kernel env to AIX 5L 64 bit kernel env

2003-02-28 Thread Tim Melly
To All, We will be migrating our 3 TSM servers (SP WinterHawk 2 nodes running AIX 4.3.3 ML10 w/ TSM servers 4.2.1.9) to new p660 nodes running AIX 5.1. The TSM DB, rlogs, and storage pools are IBM ESS based so I was intending on "importing" the volume groups to the new nodes. Has anyone had any i

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2003-02-28 Thread Guy Korn
Hi Eric, I have more or less the same situation as John dose. We have a customer with Oracle 9.2 RAC on a 32Bit AIX 5.1 w/ HACMP ES. They are using TSM 5.1.5 and I've installed TDPO 2.2.1 32bit which came in the CD pack. RMAN is unable to bind to the TDPO (SBT_TAPE). What am I missing? Best regar

Re: Can anyone verify this ......

2003-02-28 Thread Kauffman, Tom
No problem. You will need to properly define the drive in your device config file (as specified in your dsmserv.opt file) as a manual library with one drive in it. And after the restore, you'll need to delete the drives and library from the new TSM server instance and re-define your manual configu

Re: Hung Client/Filespaces

2003-02-28 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Zoltan! Can you affort to delete all filespaces? If so, try DELETE FILESPACE * Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 14:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hung Clie

Re: configuring a disk storage volume how

2003-02-28 Thread Coviello, Paul
yes we did enable this with the large file option. as far as the security, I don't believe we touched that. below is our setting on that fs. it's easier to manage 2 vs ? thanks Paul File system name/bakpool9 NEW mount point

Hung Client/Filespaces

2003-02-28 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am experiencing a strange issue on my test TSM server. I am test IMPORT MERGE FILESPACES with 5.1.6.2 before I put 5.1.6.2 into production (I really need the MERGE FILESPACES optionthings are being held up without this feature, in trying to move some large nodes from one TSM server to anothe

Re: Can anyone verify this ......

2003-02-28 Thread Rosa Leung
You could restore TSM DB to single DLT environment,I have done this. After DB restored, you need to redefine Library, drive and path in the current environment, ( Restore DB only remembers the environment that DB was backup to, you need to do the brain wash). Try it.

Re: Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Arnaud, Don't worry. Just messages from clients trying to connect to the TSM server. Ruddy Stouder Senior Technical Consultant TSM Certified Consultant I.R.I.S. Rue du Bosquet 1

Re: Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread Wilcox, Andy
You have had some sessions attempting to connect to your TSM service whilst the restore was taking place. When ever I have run dsmserv interactively for maintenance, I get automated sessions on various clients attempting to connect and I get exactly the same errors. If you know of any such clients

Re: Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Arnaud! I don't know for sure but it looks like a client which tries to connect to your TSM server while you are restoring the database. Just to be sure, maybe you should contact support to verify this. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: PA

Re: Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Eric, Ruddy Many thanks for you help ! I managed it to restore the db successfully, although I got some strange messages during restore, looking like : ANR4639I Restored 334704 of 462160 database pages. ANR4639I Restored 341664 of 462160 database pages. ANRD smexec.c(976): Session NOT allowed

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2003-02-28 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi John! Is your AIX running in 64 bit mode? If so, you should use TDP for Oracle 5.1.5 instead of 2.2.1. You can find it at: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/ tivoli-data-protection/oracle_aix/v5150/ Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Re: Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Arnaud! Error 2 is an AIX return code meaning "No such file or directory". This is probably because /tsmdb/log1 does not exist. Did you use the DSMFMT command to create this file? I also noted a difference in filename between the command you issued and the error returned. I assume this is a typo

Re: Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Hello, You should use the dsmfmt command prior to dsmserv format dsmfmt -db Dsmfmt -log Then, you follow by dsmserv format (or dsmserv loadformat) command and by dsmserv restore db Ruddy Stouder Senior Technical Consultant

Real DR situation : dsmserv format fails; errno = 2 !

2003-02-28 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi List, I had a call from one of our branches, telling me their TSM server crashed. Unfortunately they had their log and db files sitted on the same unmirrored disk, so basically everything is lost. I'm now trying to initiate a DR scenario, but face a first problem : issuing "dsmserv format 1

Re: dual-homed clients

2003-02-28 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:03:21PM +0100, Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC wrote: > Marcel, here the answer from one of my AIX colleague: > > There are different ways to make this work, one is: > > Through correct name resolution: > > - Check name resolution on tsm1 using command > # host nms5 > -

Re: configuring a disk storage volume how

2003-02-28 Thread GUILLAUMONT Etienne
Hello, Did you modify the /etc/security/limits and did you create the fs with the large file enabled option ? I suggest to create a fs with allocation group size of 64 MB and 131072 bytes per i-node. I don't know any other limitation for AIX to create big files, except the limitation of something