Hi,

same drivers as for 3592/ts11x0 drives also applies for the ts3500. You don't 
need the TIVsm-tsmscsi for it to work, but IIRC there are some useful tools in 
there for managing your tape devices.


On 14 mei 2013, at 17:53, Zoltan Forray <zfor...@vcu.edu> wrote:

> Oops - I could have sworn I said these are RedHat Linux server.
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:51 AM, James Choate <jcho...@chooses1.com> wrote:
> 
>> For Windows there is an IBMtape driver that needs to be loaded.
>> Check this URL:
>> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21428656
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Ehresman,David E.
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:45 AM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host
>> 
>> Don't know about Windows, but since it is an IBM device, on AIX you use
>> Atape and on Linux you use lintape instead of the TSM drivers.  So for
>> unix, the answer is no.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Zoltan Forray
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:29 AM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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