Hi Boris, Datapath failover is possible, on condition having bought the feature with your 3584 library.
First of all, check if you got the necessary key to enable the feature (should be written on a sticker on the inside of rear side of your library) Then, to enable datapath failover, in AIX issue : dpf_keys -a key_number To enable datapath failover on a drive : chdev -l rmt1 -a alt_pathing=yes To enable control path failover on a smc device : chdev -l smc1 -a alt_pathing=yes to enable on all drives in one shot : /usr/lpp/Atape/instAtape -a This is described in the IBM Ultrium device drivers Installation and user's guide (GA32-0430-0.3) Hope this helped ... Cheers. Arnaud ************************************************************************ ****** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ ****** -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herrmann, Boris Sent: Wednesday, 31 January, 2007 08:38 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 3592 Path Failover for Dual Ports 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. Thanks, Boris
