On Wednesday 31 January 2007 08:37, Herrmann, Boris wrote: > Hi everyone, > > we have a complete new TSM evironment: > > -AIX 5.3 > -TSM 5.3.4 > -Library 3584 > -8 x 3592 Tape Drives with Dual Port (recommendend from our Sales > Assistant to handle Failovers of Cables, Ports, ...) > -Atape Driver 10.3.5.0 > > I'm not a SAN specialist, so I hope I'll take the correct words to > express the problem/request. > Our Unix colleagues have installed and configured AIX and Atape. Every > Drive was connected with both Ports to two different "Fabrics". So each > Drive is seen in AIX two times with different names. For example: > > Port0 of the Drive => /dev/rmt10 > Port1 of the Drive => /dev/rmt50 > > Today in TSM I've configured all Drives on Port 0 (/dev/rmt10 - > /dev/rmt17). Is there a way that TSM or AIX can automatically handle a > Path Failover for Ports? My AIX colleagues told me, that under AIX is no > way to use the same device (for example /dev/rmt10) in a Path Failover > for Ports as /dev/rmt10. I than must use /dev/rmt50). In TSM I don't > know any mechanism to automatically handle that problem. I missed > something in the TSM PATH definition like "If /dev/rmt10 is not > available so use automatically /dev/rmt50). Any ideas. I think this is handled in the tape driver and that you can find more information in the README of the atape driver.
Stef
