Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Stapleton
> From: "Miles Purdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in >> TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a >> document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never >> released it. >> But now it seems mig

Updating Hard Disks

2002-09-12 Thread Allan J Mills
Folks I have a 7044-170 with 2x 9GB drives ( mirror'd) This has become a 24x7 EDI/SMS/FTP server and now it has MQ added to it I have been tasked with upgrading the 9GB disks to 36GB disks to add yet another application. No-one logs in to this machine it simply goes out and gets files and dist

2 volume ranges with distinct usage in 1 library

2002-09-12 Thread Joel Fuhrman
I have 2 sites each one contains an STK silo. Currently I write my offsite storage tapes where the operators are located. The local copy is written at the other site. Each site has a unique tape number range which makes it easy to track the offsite volumes. However because the operator's site has

recall task priority

2002-09-12 Thread John Bremer
*SMers, TSM Server 4.2.2.0 on AIX 4.3. Three tape drives. Two migration processes running, one reclamation process pending, waiting for mount point. Client requests restore of file. Client message - "Data unavailable to server." Server activity log message - "ANR0567W Retrieve or restored fa

Enginering change NSM

2002-09-12 Thread brian welsh
Hello, Next week we will have the first upgrade of our NSM. It's a model C01, with AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 4.1 and will be upgrade to AIX 5.1.0. and TSM 4.2.1.9 Because this is the first time, I was wondering if other NSM-sites will share their experiences with me, and give me some tips and trics, or

Re: HSM on AIX not working as expected

2002-09-12 Thread Michelle DeVault
Another thing ... Your pre-migrate percent is too high at 80%. I don't imagine that this would cause the problems that you are having right now. But, if you've got high threshold=30 low threshold=10 pre-migrate %=80 that means that when the system is at 30% utilized, it will kick off an a

Re: HSM on AIX not working as expected

2002-09-12 Thread Michelle DeVault
Check out how your management class is defined. Things to look at: Space Management Technique Auto-Migrate on Non-Use Migration Requires Backup? Space management technique should be AUTOMATIC. If it is SELECTIVE or NONE then automatic migration won't occur. Auto-Migrate on non-use: if it's se

Unable to retrieve archive.

2002-09-12 Thread Ochs, Duane
Hi all, I am using Openvms client 1.9 for VMS on an Alpha. Probably for Kelly Lipp or someone from Storsol. I have been able to both restore and retrieve files from the same tape this file resides on. Duane Show Archive. ABC> sho archive disk$qmsdata0:[ml.data]mlmi89.dat;*/before=1-mar-2002/fu

Disaster Recovery procedures for Linux

2002-09-12 Thread Doug Thomson
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with recovering Linux using Tivoli Storage Manager using backup sets. We are in the process of developing disaster recover plans and I need to know how to do this. We are assuming that this will be restored to new hardware. Looking for particular info

Re: HSM on AIX not working as expected

2002-09-12 Thread Mary Stephenson
What size are the files? It won't migrate any files that are not greater than both the stub file size plus one byte and the file system block size. You can check the stub file size in the 'Update Space Management' menu of dsmhsm. Can you migrate an individual file with the dsmmigra

Would this enhancement to the FREQUENCY setting be useful?

2002-09-12 Thread Jurjen Oskam
Hi everybody, This is sort of a followup to my earlier message about trying to use multiple Include/Exclude lists at different times. It was shown that this is a Bad Idea, and an alternative solution was shown. This solution is described in http://msgs2.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0208/785.html . I

Re: I am sorry, I went home sick.

2002-09-12 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:04:13AM -0500, Lisa Cabanas wrote: > I will be out of the office starting 09/12/2002 and will not return until > 09/13/2002. And when you return, you'll undoubtedly have a mailbox full of automatic replies to your automatic reply. Of course, your autoresponder will au

Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

2002-09-12 Thread Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)
Why not just bind them to a TSM server client option set?? Changes are a lot easier to apply to hundreds of nodes this way. Regards, Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech Deloitte & Touche USA LLP -Original Message- From: J M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu

Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

2002-09-12 Thread Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)
Sorry all. I didn't see Steve's post until I had already hit "send" Regards, Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech Deloitte & Touche USA LLP -Original Message- From: Steve Schaub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PR

Recall: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

2002-09-12 Thread Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)
Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage) would like to recall the message, "mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit". - This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. - If you are not the intended recipient, yo

Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

2002-09-12 Thread J M
yeah, we could write something in perl-- Thanks very much for the input- >From: "Nelson, Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:21:06 -0400 > >The onl

Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

2002-09-12 Thread Nelson, Doug
The only way I can think of is to write a program and have it executed by the login script. It would be easy to do that way, and you can drop a sentinel file in there to make sure it only executes once. Do you know C++ or Perl? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/12 12:48 PM >>> Does anyone have a clever

Re: SCRIPT FOR df -k ALERTS ATTACHED

2002-09-12 Thread David Stabler
Well, it doesn't, as it stands CD's, mounted, will appear with a device that is consistent. In AIX that device would be /dev/cdX. You could change the grep -v "^Filesys" to egrep -v "^Filesys|^/dev/cd[0-9]" That'd do it. -drs- David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE Senior Systems Analyst >>> [

Re: Can you set "passwordaccess generate" from a client option set on the server?

2002-09-12 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Keith, you're welcome. But I thought I was just answering a straightforward question, I didn't know it was "loaded" :-) I'm not sure I understand the part about "lame password management", as that is pretty vague. But then, I am in no way an expert on computer/network security (or any other

Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

2002-09-12 Thread Steve Schaub
We only store setting in the local dsm.opt that can't be set using client option sets on the TSM server. All of our include/exclude statements are stored in client option sets based on client os. Makes changes alot easier, since we make the change in one place, and we don't have to refresh th

Re: Can you set "passwordaccess generate" from a client option set on the server?

2002-09-12 Thread Keith Kwiatek
Thanks Andy, Glad to see IBM responding My question has to do with trying to beef up the security with our TSM clients (expiring passwords)... What does IBM have to say about what seems to be VERY lame password management? In the age of security, I am amazed at how weak the admin and cl

Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

2002-09-12 Thread J M
Does anyone have a clever technique / method to perform a dsm.opt file edit (ie. a new exclude statement) across 100's of Windows clients at one time? _ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Can you set "passwordaccess generate" from a client option set on the server?

2002-09-12 Thread Andrew Raibeck
This would be rather difficult to do, since in order to get your client options set, you need to authenticate with the server. To authenticate with the server, you need to send the password to the server. Since the method the client uses to send the password to the server is based on the PASSWORDA

HSM on AIX not working as expected

2002-09-12 Thread Andrew Carlson
I am new to HSM with TSM. I start dsmhsm, selected a filesystem to manage, filled the filesystem with files, and tried to do a migrate. It keeps telling me "ANS9094W dsmautomig: no candidates found in filesystem". I set the high threshold to 30, low to 10, and the premigration threshold to 80.

Re: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally

2002-09-12 Thread Jane Bamberger
Hi, We had this problem because our expiration process was never completing. We were deleting database backups to gain scratch tapes to get one more night's backups out. We had it set expiration to run automatically for several hours a day, and it was never finishing past the mail server - which

Question on mgmt for TDP for ORACLE running RMAN

2002-09-12 Thread Justin Case
Ha! one more question or verification for default mgmt for TDP for ORACLE running RMAN I have it set up as listed below that since ORACLE TDP uses unique name convention does this retention keep one copy of the data or should I update the Retain Extra Versions to 30 to keep a copy for 30 days

Re: Question on mgmt for TDP for ORACLE running RMAN

2002-09-12 Thread David Longo
No, only from client. Can be run from cron or whatever. Well, actually if you want you can run from server. Just setup a schedule that has ACTION of CMD and use the script that does the deletes as the command. You could even pass parameters to it if you want. (These commands don't have to actua

Re: Graphics error on AIX after TSM server upgrade

2002-09-12 Thread David Longo
Upgraded to TSM 4.2.2.10. Same problem exists. Decided to look at Tivoli Knowlodge Base and searched for "Graphics". Bingo! An immediate hit. APARS IC33403 and IC34068, related to TSM Server 4.2.2 and 5.1.0 PTF's cause this. Local fix is: In /etc/inittab where server is started, the output by

SDLT2 drives supported?

2002-09-12 Thread Miller Dave (RBNA/CIT1)
Does anyone have any idea when SDLT2 (160/320) drives will be supported by TSM?

Re: I am sorry, I went home sick.

2002-09-12 Thread Remeta, Mark
I hope you feel better Lisa :)... -Original Message- From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I am sorry, I went home sick. I will be out of the office starting 09/12/2002 and will not return until 09/13/

Can you set "passwordaccess generate" from a client option set on the server?

2002-09-12 Thread Keith Kwiatek
Hello, Can you set "passwordaccess generate" from a client option set on the server? How? Doesn't seem to be a selection in the client option set menu THanks Keith

Re: Question on mgmt for TDP for ORACLE running RMAN

2002-09-12 Thread Justin Case
Thanks for explanation So the Oracle DBA has to run RMAN to delete the files older than 30 days as required? Or can it be ran from TSM Server? Justin David Longo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/12/2002 10:02:32 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Question on mgmt for TDP for ORACLE running RMAN

2002-09-12 Thread David Longo
You have set it up correctly. TDPO doesn't actually use TSM versioning to delete old backups. That is done with RMAN scripts on the client where Oracle resides. Look at your RMAN documentation. There should be a sample script installed also. Basically you set up the script to delete data olde

Re: mgmt class ?

2002-09-12 Thread Justin Case
Thanks for verifying my thinking Thanks Good view point... Justin "Cook, Dwight E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/12/2002 07:32:24 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: mgmt class ?

2002-09-12 Thread Mire, Nona
THANKS DWIGHT I had just this week started a test setup to do exactly what you have on the spreadsheet. You saved me tons of time! :-) -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:32 AM To:

TDP for Oracle (RMAN) Tape Failure During Backup

2002-09-12 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, I have a customer with a 1.5 TB Oracle database. If they encounter a tape or network error during the backup, TSM reports an error to Oracle. Instead of resending the data, RMAN aborts the backup operation. It is my understanding that this is how the TSM/Oracle integration works. My custo

Re: Gigabit performance with Win2K

2002-09-12 Thread Greg Redell
I knew I should have included more details the minute after I hit send. Our current problem is that our DLT 7000's can not migrate data fast enough to keep our disk pools filling, even with multiple migration processes running. So we are getting an IBM 3584 with LTO drives. At that point I hope

Re: HSM on AIX not working as expected

2002-09-12 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Andrew, What version of the HSM client are you running? Try invoking the dsmautomig with the VERBOSE dsmautomig -D -traceflags=service -tracefile=/tmp/autotrace /u/p It may be sending files but reporting that error due to a previous APAR that was released last year around this time! Regards,

Re: Gigabit performance with Win2K

2002-09-12 Thread Del Hoobler
> We are currently looking into upgrading our network to from 100Mb to > gigabit and our network architecture group wanted to make sure that TSM > could use all that bandwidth if it had it available. My main concern and > the main reason for the upgrade is our Domino servers, can TDP use the > ex

I am sorry, I went home sick.

2002-09-12 Thread Lisa Cabanas
I will be out of the office starting 09/12/2002 and will not return until 09/13/2002. If you need TSM assistance, please contact the operators in the computer room (751-3772). I will respond to you message when I return. thanks lisa

Re: SCRIPT FOR df -k ALERTS ATTACHED

2002-09-12 Thread andrew . young
David, How does this handle mount CD's as they show up as 100% used on the df command? David Stabler cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: SCRIPT FOR df -k ALERTS ATTACHED Dist Stor Manager

Re: non-tivoli script calls, problems with narrow select....

2002-09-12 Thread David Stabler
Stupid User Tricks When passing the doublequote to a process, like select, make sure you send it quoted (usually with the backslash). Thus dsmadmc 'select cast(process as char(30)) as "X..." ' works, but dsmadmc ... "select cast(process as char(30)) as "X" " doesn't. The "

Re: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Bertrand
Kathy, I had this problem which was resolved by Tivoli Level2 support Christopher Wong (thanks Chris). My problem was two fold, first I did not have a reclamation process running on my copy stgpool. Long story as to why, but bottom line was it wasn't running. Easy to identify and fix, so I tried

Re: SCRIPT FOR df -k ALERTS ATTACHED

2002-09-12 Thread David Stabler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/12/02 02:58AM > .if someone can help me in completing this task using a single > script it would be helpful How about... (assuming you have /bin/ksh) #!/bin/sh # # this program scans the filesystems for ones that exceed a maximum # percentage used. The pa

Re: Novell clusters

2002-09-12 Thread Jim Kirkman
Until the 'cluster aware' client is released by Tivoli (I was told it would be 5.1.5 due in Sept.) you are going to have duplicate backups. The current clients identify the file space by hardware location and as such if a volume fails over TSM sees it as residing on a new space and backs it up as

Re: mgmt class ?

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Bertrand
Great Job Dwight! I have never seen retentions explained that way, the spread sheet makes it much easier to understand. Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mgmt clas

Automated install of 4.2 on WinNT workstations

2002-09-12 Thread Steve Schaub
I have 100 engineering workstations that I need to convert from Arcserve to TSM. What is the best method for getting the 4.2 client running on these machines? I have seen several posts related to using .bat files with the dsmcutil and others about msiexec, but I am confused on the difference

Re: mgmt class ?

2002-09-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E
NOPE ! (well, sort of, maybe, depends on which one you want) If a file changes daily, you only keep "7" versions, so you will have at most 7 copies... on day 30 you only have days 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, & 29 to restore from... days 1-22 have expired due to "versions data exists" AND say the pers

Re: Novell clusters

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David E Ehresman > Is anyone using TSM to backup Novell clusters? If so, how do you handle > the situation where a file volume fails over to another node in the > cluster? Depending upon your level of NetWare, the Novell TSA mo

Re: TSM 5.1.1.4 update

2002-09-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Geoff, don't go down the "patches" subdirectory... you want to go down "maintenance", "server", "v5r1", "AIX", "LATEST" where you will find... -rw-rw-r-- 1 18125700 20010491 May 31 15:03 TSMDEVAIX5110.README.DEV -rw-rw-r-- 1 18125700 200 18809353 May 31 15:03 TSMSRVAIX05_0

Re: 8bit characters containing filenames not backed up

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur v. Dorp > Our Server is on a AIX-RS/6000 with Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0. So I > don't think that it supports unicode. 8 bits would be enough, I > don't need 2 > bytes. Is there a way to backup the files without unico

USRGENT ---- ANS1114I Waiting for mount of offline media.

2002-09-12 Thread Meensun Ahn
Hi, All Here are some questions about restore. 1) Is there better way to see restore status from TSM server side? What I tend to do is "q act se=restore | node_name begint" 2) In addition, how do I put higher priority on restore or retrieve rather than other processes? Of course we can kill

me too!

2002-09-12 Thread Remco Post
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, if people would please be so kind as to mail 'me too' directly to the addressed person and not to the whole list, that would be greatly appriciated! - --- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amster

password

2002-09-12 Thread Jason Livie
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Re: Help-new mgmt class for existing node: how to make this work?

2002-09-12 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Ken! Are you using TDP for Oracle to backup the databases? If so, you better use a different node name for the TDP client. If you are talking about an offline database backup, you will have to override the managamentclass by using the include statement in your options file. Check http://www.tiv

Re: Gigabit performance with Win2K

2002-09-12 Thread Salak Juraj
Hello, to check the highest possible level of the improvement through upgrade to Gigabit you may want to check what the maximal backup/restore speed of your TSM w i t h o u t influence of network cable is: install tsm client locally on TSM server, configure it for tcpip connection create test

Re: Help-new mgmt class for existing node: how to make this work?

2002-09-12 Thread Large, Matthew
Ken, You're on the right track here.. just missing the fact that you need to register the Oracle node (for example _ORA) in the new domain. Once you've done this, you effectively have two TSM nodes. One for your new Oracle node and one for the OS and the rest. You should be aware that the TSM se

Re: Direct archiving of DB2/SAP R3 logs to TSM

2002-09-12 Thread Lars Bebensee
Hi there, the db2 archive logs are still created somewhere on your filesystems. Only after db2 says that it has only commited actions inside the logs it archives the logs to TSM by means of the db2 user exit. You can find out the path of your log files by issueing a "db2 get db cfg for DATABASE_N

SCRIPT FOR df -k ALERTS ATTACHED

2002-09-12 Thread Praveen Kumar K (TSE-IFT-ITPL)
Hai, I have a script which will use the df -k command and list u all the Fs's which exceed the limit(As set by you) It is 2 scripts which handle the whole operation...The actual execution happens in the 1st script and for formatting the results we are using the second script,since it was men