Prather, Wanda wrote: > Ooh, that's really sneaky! I like it! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John Monahan > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:36 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Adding a short delay in a server command script > > > Another option is to create another script which calls the sleep command > on > your TSM server with an immediate action. You need to be in prompted > schedule mode to use this method. Here is how I do it: > > DEFINE SCRIPT SLEEP DESC="Enter number of seconds to wait as a > variable" > UPDATE SCRIPT SLEEP "define clientaction TSMSERVERNAME action=command > -" > UPDATE SCRIPT SLEEP "objects='sleep ""$1""' wait=yes" > > Then in your other scripts where you need a pause you can have a line > like > so: > RUN SLEEP 30 > >
of course, after you upgraded to tsm server 5.3 you could just do 'reclaim stg tapearchivepool01 th=97'. Still maybe a sleep in a serverscript would be usefull in other applications. > > ______________________________ > John Monahan > Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions > Computech Resources, Inc. > Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 > Cell: 952-221-6938 > http://www.computechresources.com > > > > > "Ritter, John M" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ERBILT.EDU> > To > Sent by: "ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Dist Stor > cc > Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject > .EDU> Adding a short delay in a server > command script > > 11/17/2005 10:21 > AM > > > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor > Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > .EDU> > > > > > > > I have a short server command script that changes the reclamation > setting and then immediately resets it back, in order to start a > reclamation process for any tapes that are over the threshold. > > When I run the two commands manually, there is enough time between them > to allow a reclamation process to kick off. > > When I run them as part of a script, they run so quickly that there is > no time for a reclamation process to start before it is reset back to > 100. > > Here are the two lines in the script: > > update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=87 > update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=100 > > What I need is the equivalent of the sleep command, so that I can delay > a few seconds between the two update commands, something similar to: > > update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=87 > sleep 10 > update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=100 > > Any suggestions? I want to just have one script do the kickoff as well > as resetting the recl back to 100. I need to run this at certain times > of the day that I have available drives, so I thought a server command > script would be appropriate. If anybody has alternate approaches, I > would also be interested. The wait=yes option doesn't work for the > update stg command, unfortunately. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > John M. Ritter > Systems Software Specialist > Vanderbilt University Medical Center > Nashville, TN 37232 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 3000 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
