On 7 jul 2009, at 19:34, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
For those that tested 6.1 in a Linux environment I'm looking for any problems you had. During my testing on AIX and Windows I had failures during the installation which were always DB2 related. I'm getting ready to bring up TSM on a Linux box and am looking for your experience. This is a new installation not an upgrade. This is a test but I really want to get a working environment up as quickly and easily as possible. In the end I will blow this away and bring it up on an IBM p series box running Linux which will hopefully be just as easy but for now this is just a test on a blade I was given till the other hardware arrives.
I've installed 6.1 on debian and opensuse. Unfortunately, TSM 6.1 on a minimal install is untested (and not very well documented) and the deployment engine will fail in horrible ways. If you just install opensuse including a gui, java, ksh and more (select everything), it will work quite easily. One thing: Linux on x86 is only supported in 64 bit mode! Another thing, make 100% sure that you local hostname (output of hostname) is not mapped to 127.0.0.2 but to a real IP address of your server. There is some misfeature in DB2 that actually depends on real TCP/IP communications to the localhost based on the hostname (rather than 127.0.0.1). On debian I did a few tricks (bypassing the DE), and all was fine. I have a feeling that debian is a better OS for running TSM than OpenSUSE (or bypassing the DE is a good idea, take your pick ;-)). May I enquire why you'd want to replace the most robust OS on the planet (AIX) on your p series with Linux? Not that I don't like Linux, I just think AIX is superior.
I will direct 2 LTO2 drives to this box from the 3584 along with a VTL that is coming in this week. Learning Linux from scratch so I really have no idea how these devices are even found. I have SAN disk displayed for DB and I need to figure out how to get all that set up too, unfortunately it's not something I've figured out. I can tap some other Linux resources here for help with that I hope. I'm taking notes on what I've done with specific commands since I certainly won't remember it tomorrow. I really hate asking for documents others have put together but in this case, since I'm being pressured to get this going, I certainly would appreciate anything others have put together if anyone may have something already.
given that I always think that the best platform to run TSM on is the one you are most familiar with, stick with AIX! Linux is great, really, but AIX is better.
Thanks for any info you can provide. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
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