Re: Q about TSM notification in a widely-distributed environment

2012-11-06 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
You can try to evaluate TSMExplorer from www.s-iberia.com. It has special agent and updater, which can be installed ones together with TSM Client to provide next functionality: 1) remote update of agent to newer version without having access to servers; 2) remote viewing TSM Client logs, TDP for

Re: AUDIT VOL with WAIT=YES ?

2012-11-06 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Roger. I don't have one already made, but this should get you started. Hopefully there won't be too many typos. #!/usr/bin/ksh dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa audit vol /path/file1 sleep 10 while dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa -comma q pr | grep -qi audit ; do sleep 10 done dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa update vol

Re: Q about TSM notification in a widely-distributed environment

2012-11-06 Thread Nick Laflamme
Every day, our EMC Data Protection Advisor server processes the data it collects overnight from our dozens of TSM servers and blasts out to the client administration teams a listing of the servers who haven't had a good scheduled backup in at the past 24 hours. As long as the client administrati

AUDIT VOL with WAIT=YES ?

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Deschner
Does anybody have a script or program that can issue a TSM AUDIT VOLUME command and wait for it to finish - as though WAIT=YES existed? I keep getting r/o vols in my DEVCLASS FILE storage pools. I want to audit them before changing them back to r/w. I want an automatic process to do that, one at a

Re: Q about TSM notification in a widely-distributed environment

2012-11-06 Thread Chavdar Cholev
Hi Wanda, depends If you need ticketing system commercial one ... you can have a look at BMC Remedy or IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager ... if there is no budget you can chek OTRS ... it is an open source system with mail listener, SLA, esclation and notification functionalities ... We

Q about TSM notification in a widely-distributed environment

2012-11-06 Thread Prather, Wanda
One of my customers is becoming effectively a "backup service bureau" for many remote departments (and the number of depts. they service is growing). The central TSM admins have access to the TSM clients in the glass house, but no access to the TSM clients for the remote departments. Currently t

Re: TSM database backup versus db2 backup of TSM database

2012-11-06 Thread Remco Post
Ruud, Under the hood 'ba db ' does perform a 'db2 backup db ...', but with added features like being able to restore the TSM database while TSM is unavailable because the database needs to be restored. I can think of no good reason to not use the supported and perfectly functional 'backup d

Re: TSM database backup versus db2 backup of TSM database

2012-11-06 Thread Steven Langdale
Ruud Not sure on advantaged, but the only "supported" way of getting a V6.x TSM instance back from a DB backup is one done with "ba db..." Steven On 6 November 2012 14:11, Meuleman, Ruud wrote: > All, > > One can make TSM database backups within the TSM application (ba db > dev= t=f), since ver

TSM database backup versus db2 backup of TSM database

2012-11-06 Thread Meuleman, Ruud
All, One can make TSM database backups within the TSM application (ba db dev= t=f), since version 6 one can make also a db2 backup of it (db2 backup db tsminst1 online use tsm). Does anybody knows if there are advantages of making db2 backups compared to TSM database backups? Kind Regards, Ru