With the TS3500 scheduled to appear next Monday, I am triple-checking my list of things to do in preparation of the install, Memorial Day weekend.
I have a question related to the server software. In the past, when installing a TSM server, I always excluded/ignored the option of installing the TIVsm-tsmscsi modules since I didn't have any SCSI devices. But with the TS3500 being seen as a "SCSI device", do I need to install this missing module/feature on all of my TSM servers? On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Bronder <david-bron...@uiowa.edu>wrote: > TSM controls the library via a second LUN on one or more of the tape > drives. By default (or by the IBM CE at installation time), the first > drive in the library has the control path enabled, but you can enable > it on additional drives (I believe lin_tape should handle failover for > them). On AIX, they would be discovered as smc* devices; a quick bit > of Googling suggests with lin_tape, they're /dev/IBMchanger* devices. > You define the library using the control path device. > > On the network side, though, you'll likely want TCP port 80 and/or 443 > open to the 3584 from somewhere to use the library's web interface, but > that's unlikely to be needed from your TSM server unless you use the > Java CLI from there to monitor or perform tasks on the library. > > If you're using a TS3000 System Console to manage your library, that's > a whole other beast, which I've avoided so far. Maybe someone else can > offer insight there, if you need to know. > > I'll defer to someone actually using AME or TKLM for drive encryption > to speak to the networking requirements there. I'd guess that for AME, > all communication is via the tape device, though. > > =Dave > > > Zoltan Forray wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply but I need more details than that. Does it need > it's > > own fibre connection or does it piggy-back on one of the drives, in this > > case TS1130? What does it look like on a server? Does it have a separate > > drivers? For instance, my drives appear as /dev/IBMtapenn due to > > installation of lin_tape? How do I define the TSM path to the library? > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Denier < > > thomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.org> wrote: > > > > > -----Zoltan Forray wrote: ----- > > > > > > >I am trying to prepare for the move from our 3494 to a TS3500/3584. > > > > > > > >With the 3494, it needed port 3494 open on the host system that was > > > >the > > > >library manager, for the ibmatl program to function. > > > > > > > >What ports are needed open through the firewall of the Linux servers > > > >that > > > >are library managers (is it as simple as 3584?)? How about for AME? > > > >Any > > > >additional ports needed for this function from the TS3500 to each > > > >library > > > >manager server (I assume the keys are only stored with the server > > > >that > > > >manages the tapes, not each server that uses a tape - or is this a > > > >bad/wrong assumption?) > > > > > > A TS3500 is eithter a relabeled 3584 or a compatible successor to > > > the 3584; different Web sites give conflicting information on this > > > point. > > > > > > All communications between the TSM server code and a TS3500 travel > > > over the SAN connections between the two. > > > > > > Thomas Denier > > > Thomas Jefferson University Hospital > > > > > -- > Hello World. David Bronder - Systems > Architect > Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of > Iowa > Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. > david-bron...@uiowa.edu > -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
