Hi Tom, This APAR looks to be applicable to your scenario. The fix, per the link below, is slated for 642 and 711.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC98136 With the fix, once you specifically have VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS NO in the options file, the template is not processed and not counted as inspected or failed. Regards, Omar "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 08/27/2014 11:07:29 AM: > From: Tom Alverson <tom.alver...@gmail.com> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, > Date: 08/27/2014 11:17 AM > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE failures on templates > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > I am getting failures with TSM for VE 7.1.0.0 where it is trying to back up > templates even though I have them disabled in the OPT file: > > VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS NO > > I get errors like this: > > 08/26/2014 19:13:56 ANS2045E The VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS option is not > specified. The virtual machine template 'W2K8_EE_R2' can not be backed up. > > 08/26/2014 19:13:57 ANS1228E Sending of object 'W2K8_EE_R2' failed. > > 08/26/2014 19:13:57 ANS5226E The virtual machine backup operation failed. > > > Do I also need to exclude each VM name that is a template from the OPT > file? Right now I am just using this: > > > DOMAIN.VMFULL -VM=*VSE* >
