I always just use the entire range. It's only asking for tapes with the
insertion catagory within the VOLRANGE. Doesn't hurt to specify the entire
range. That way I just have 1 command I use.
Bill
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Tectrade Computers
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Hi Bill
Thanks for the response it is very helpful, my next question is that when I
use the VOLRANGE parameter must it always be the entire range of tapes. And
when this is done does this completely discount the other tapes from being
included in the others checkin procedure.
In response to the other e-mail. Both Sun Servers can see all the drives
and they are attached through dual brocade switches.
Thanks
Alex
William Boyer
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You need to make sure that your CHECKIN commands on each server use the
VOLRANGE parameter. When you put tapes in the 3494, they are placed in the
insertion catagory and the first 'host' to grab them get them. So you could
possibly checkin serverA's tapes in for serverB and write over good data.
For my AIX TSM Server, I create a server script that has the CHECKIN
command
with all my parameters. I then schedule this in an admin schedule to run
daily after I know the operators have done tape rotation. TSM won't let you
actually schedule a checkin command, but you can imbed it in a script and
schedule the script. Also, this is the only command I run to manually check
tapes in...RUN CHECKIN (CHECKIN is my script name). This way I make sure
that I'm not going to checkin some other servers' tapes.
We use a naming convention for out tape volsers. R00000-R99999 is for the
AIX server, and M00000-M99999 is for our OS/390 systems.
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:18 AM
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Alex,
I don't believe there is any way to control where in the library the
tapes are stored, at least from TSM.
I'd like some info on your configuration if you wouldn't mind. How are
the tape drives connected: do both servers connect to all drives
(physically)? How many tape drives are on one FC-AL loop?
Steffan
Tectrade Computers wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I would like to know if anyone has got two TSM SUN servers sharing one
3494
> library. Everything is working fine and the new Fibre attach drives are
> working very well. My question really relates to how I differentiate
> between the volumes in the library. I have 3 frames and need to split the
> columns equally between the servers. I have changed the categories at
both
> libraries and now the other library does not see the volumes.
>
> The following is info about the site.
>
> TSM for Sun Solaris 4.1.2.0 X2
> E220R Servers X2
> 3494 L12 D12 S10 X1
> Fibre Attached 3590E X4
>
> Any Info at all would be helpful.
>
> Regards
>
> Alex Fagioli
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