Hi there sorry for the slow reply. very busy. tapeutil i think is a utility and is part of the atape driver set. this utility can be used to test and diagnose the functionality of your library and tapedrives from the operating system and works independant of TSM which can be very useful. we use it on three completely differently configured AIX TSM Servers.the common factor is that they all use IBM Libraries.
all you do is type tapeutil from anywhere at the prompt. you must be root. the rest is very self explanatory. if there are errors the utility dumps sense data to the screen output which can be checked by IBM hardware engineers. hope this helps regards ____________________________________________Nazeer Parak Systems Engineer Arivia.kom * Phone: 203-6062 * Cell: 084-447-7771 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Steven Bridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM from AIX 4.3.3 to AIX 5.2 ( library problem ) > From: Nazeer Parak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > try tapeutil > also check if your OS ie aix can communicate properly/see the library > Where do I find 'tapeutil ? > > From: "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't know much about this library, so I don't know if it's supported by > Atape or not. If not, did you install the 64-bits device support package? > Kindest regards, > Eric van Loon I haven't needed to use Atape for this within AIX 4.3.3. I use : mkdev -c library -t 'ADSM-SCSI-LB' -s 'scsi' -p 'scsi5' -w '6,0' to create the device /dev/lb0 There doesn't appear to be a specific 64-bit device support package or have I missed it somehow. > From: =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Dmitri Pasyutin=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 2003.12.02 10:45:39 ANR8840E Unable to open device lb0 with error 2. > > 2003.12.02 10:45:39 ANR8418E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while > > accessing library STKLIB. > > This is normal, since you need to specify "/dev/lb0" and not "lb0" in the= > "define path" command. What does the activity log show when defining the= > path with /dev/lb0 ? I get : 031202-132741: ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DEFINE PATH ADSM STKLIB 031202-132741: srct=server destt=LIBRARY device=/dev/lb0 031202-132741: ANR8300E I/O error on library STKLIB (OP=00006C02, CC=207, KEY=FF, ASC=FF, 031202-132741: ASCQ=FF, 031202-132741: SENSE=**NONE**, 031202-132741: Description=Device is not in a state capable of 031202-132741: performing request). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for 031202-132741: recommended action. > > > lsdev -C | egrep 'mt|lb' gives : > > > > lb0 Available 1c-08-00-6,0 N/A > > mt0 Available 1c-08-00-0,0 N/A > > mt1 Available 1Z-08-00-1,0 N/A > > mt2 Available 1Z-08-00-2,0 N/A > > rmt0 Defined 1Z-08-00-0,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive > > rmt1 Defined 1c-08-00-1,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive > > rmt2 Defined 1c-08-00-2,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive > > rmt3 Available 1Z-08-00-1,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive > > rmt4 Available 1Z-08-00-2,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive > > rmt5 Available 1c-08-00-0,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive > > The "N/A" in the device description might mean that the device driver fil= > eset is not properly installed or the devices are not properly configured= > . Can you send the output of "lslpp -l tivoli.tsm.\*" ? The AIX4.3.3 incarnation of TSM always gave 'N/A' for these devices without any problems. lslpp -l tivoli.tsm.\* Fileset Level State Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: /usr/lib/objrepos tivoli.tsm.client.api.32bit 5.2.0.0 COMMITTED TSM Client - Application Programming Interface tivoli.tsm.client.ba.32bit.base 5.2.0.0 COMMITTED TSM Client - Backup/Archive Base Files tivoli.tsm.client.ba.32bit.common 5.2.0.0 COMMITTED TSM Client - Backup/Archive Common Files tivoli.tsm.client.ba.32bit.image 5.2.0.0 COMMITTED TSM Client - IMAGE Backup Client tivoli.tsm.client.ba.32bit.web 5.2.0.0 COMMITTED TSM Client - Backup/Archive WEB Client tivoli.tsm.devices.aix5.rte 5.1.8.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Device Support runtime tivoli.tsm.license.aix5.rte64 5.1.5.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager License Registration tivoli.tsm.license.cert 5.1.5.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager License Registration tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices 5.1.5.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Devices SMIT Menus - US English tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server 5.1.5.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Server Common Messages - US English tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.webhelp 5.1.5.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Web Admin Help - US English tivoli.tsm.server.aix5.rte64 5.1.8.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Server Runtime tivoli.tsm.server.com 5.1.8.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Server common services Path: /etc/objrepos tivoli.tsm.devices.aix5.rte 5.1.8.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Device Support runtime tivoli.tsm.server.aix5.rte64 5.1.8.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Server Runtime tivoli.tsm.server.com 5.1.8.0 COMMITTED Tivoli Storage Manager Server common services +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Steven Bridge Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD University College London NOTICE: Please note that this eMail, and the contents thereof, is subject to the standard arivia.kom email disclaimer which may be found at: http://www.arivia.co.za/disclaimer.htm. 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