Hello Kathleen, and a happy new year to everyone on the list. One of our customers, resolved this by copying (!) all dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log files to one server, and ran a script through all of them, to get the actual status of the backup's. I can see that for 800+ clients, this would probably not be the best solution. The good thing about it is, it will always give the correct status. Another idea just popped into my head... If you daily rename/move/delete the dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log from the clients, it would reduce the data to copy/scan for errors.
Rgds. Geirr G. Halvorsen -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen Hallahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30. december 2002 16:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Scheduler shows backups completed successfully dsmerror.log shows backups failed ? This is an issue we have raised with Tivoli ourselves recently, even requesting--and being turned down for-- a Design Change Request. Their recommendation was to check the dsmsched.logs on the clients. This is impossible for us and presumably for anyone in a large envorinment; we have over 800 clients and I know there are organizations out there with many more. As it is, we've had to write an AIX script to catch the ones that report as "In Progress," considering that they are rarely, if ever, actually in progress at that time. I have no idea how to chase down the ones reporting as "Completed" when in fact they have not, on a daily basis across our entire environment. If anyone has any workable solutions I'd be very interested in hearing them; I'm at a bit of a loss myself. Mark Stapleton <stapleto@BERB To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EE.COM> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: TSM Scheduler shows backups completed successfully "ADSM: Dist dsmerror.log shows backups failed ? Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> 12/29/2002 09:58 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 14:07, shekhar Dhotre wrote: > q eve * * shows all backups are completing successfully but clients > dsmerror.log file shows schedule command failed ,How I can verify that > these backups are completing successfully other than restore test? > > 26-12-2002 20:45:08 ANS1909E The scheduled command failed. > 26-12-2002 20:45:08 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'EMEAPROD_HOT_DAILY' failed. Remember that the *schedule* itself completed successfully. You're far better off looking for the message numbers that appear in the summaries that appear in the server activity log at the end of a successsful backup. (I'm not within reach of a TSM server tonight, so I can't look them ATM.) This is a much better indicator of successful backups than the event list. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
