I have semi-solved this problem. I have placed the dsmadmc command in a execute only script file. The key is automatically changing the password often in case it gets exposed. So, I wrote a script that creates random passwords and changes the password often. I run this script under root or a userid that is the only one that has access to read/write the dsmadmc script file.
I know we need a password generate function for server directed dsmadmc commands, but there is not a real good way to do this. -----Original Message----- From: Glass, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unix trigger for TSM Server processes? What is the best way to have unix trigger a TSM backup storagepool process? We need to start this process immediately upon completion of a client's DB2 backup. We can't very well schedule this, because the completion time of the backup varies widely, from one backup to the next. We can afford to begin the tape copy process neither too soon, nor too late. One idea might be to have a DB2 script invoke unix to start something via /usr/bin/dsmadmc -id=admin -pass=password, et cetera, but this would mean hardcoding the password with the -pass= parameter, which would present a security exposure. Any suggestions on how we might accomplish this would be greatly appreciated (both the client and server platforms are AIX 4.3.3; TSM is at V4 R2). Thanks, in advance. Peter Glass Distributed Storage Management (DSM) Wells Fargo Services Company
