Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:10:09PM -0400, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > People leave their IO doors open? After exchanging tapes, it *did* happen once or twice here. When that happens, people automatically get informed Really Quickly and come to the library to close the door. Which is no problem, becaus

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:01:49PM -0500, John Monahan wrote: > The whole point of using scripts is so you don't have any manual tasks > *unless* something is wrong. I would consider an open library door as > something being wrong. I meant that it probably would be wise to not use the WAITTIME=0

Re: Log pinning issue, not quite sure what's going on...

2006-05-04 Thread Sung Y Lee
Suggestion Assuming that data(s) are being migrated from diskpool, I would also examine if disks of primary diskpool are going bad or there are some bad data written to disk. I would look at /var log or error logs. Maybe run some diagnostics commands top see if OS see all devices are fine on the

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Kauffman, Tom
What I was thinking, also. In our shop, he who stuffs tapes into I/O port runs checkin -- and whoever runs the checkout is responsible for stripping the tapes out of the port, putting them in those neat little plastic boxes, and stuffing same into the transport case. Tom Kauffman -Original M

Re: Log pinning issue, not quite sure what's going on...

2006-05-04 Thread Joni Moyer
Hey Everyone, As an update, I have checked the firmware levels of the drives and they are all the same and I have also checked the attributes on the drives and they are the same as well. Also, we have an SL8500 STK library housing the LTO2 drives. I am at a loss at this point in time as to what

Re: Log pinning issue, not quite sure what's going on...

2006-05-04 Thread Talafous, John
Joni, Have a close look at Sessions 11 and 54 from Client Node HMCH1143. Looks to be running a long time and the TSM Server has received over 30GB of data. My $0.02 says this is your culprit. What is this client doing and why? John G. Talafous Berbee Information Networks http://www.berbee.co

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Jim Zajkowski
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Jurjen Oskam wrote: Yeah, but when you enter this command and the library door is NOT closed, all you library operations will hang until the door is closed. People leave their IO doors open? --Jim

Log pinning issue, not quite sure what's going on...

2006-05-04 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello everyone, Earlier in the week I had an issue with the log being pinned by a migration task. I have thus experienced the issue again this morning and it appears as if another migration task has it pinned again. The weird thing is that in all cases the migration task that has it pinned it th

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread John Monahan
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/04/2006 11:24:56 AM: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:24:14AM -0400, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > >[scsi library] > > In 5.3, you can say checkin libv waitt=0 and it will not bother to > > generate a prompt, it will just do it. Handy. > > Yeah, but when you enter

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:24:14AM -0400, Jim Zajkowski wrote: [scsi library] > In 5.3, you can say checkin libv waitt=0 and it will not bother to > generate a prompt, it will just do it. Handy. Yeah, but when you enter this command and the library door is NOT closed, all you library ope

Re: Auditing Tools

2006-05-04 Thread Doug Fox
Awesome thanks! I'll have plenty of things to look at now :) On 5/4/06, Mark Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/04/2006 09:07:45 AM: > Would there be easy ways to get the following informaiton? > > Query a storage pool to see what schedules are defaulte

Re: Auditing Tools

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Stapleton
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/04/2006 09:07:45 AM: > Would there be easy ways to get the following informaiton? > > Query a storage pool to see what schedules are defaulted to it. There is no one-to-one relationship between a storage pool and client schedules. Client schedules are defined

Re: Auditing Tools

2006-05-04 Thread Doug Fox
Sorry for lack of information. TSM is on AIX 5.3 We do have the TSM operational reporter. I will have to spend some time with that. There any sites that would have custom scripts or are all of the things I'm looking for pretty much built in? Thanks again for your help :) On 5/4/06, Bos, Karel

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Jim Zajkowski
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Kauffman, Tom wrote: The checkin script runs a 'checkin libv search=bulk checklabel=barcode stat=pri', does a 'reply' to the tsm-generated prompt, and updates each volume as it is checked in to an access of 'readw'. We fill the I/O port and run the script; if there are more

Re: Auditing Tools

2006-05-04 Thread Bos, Karel
Q system? Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Fox Sent: donderdag 4 mei 2006 16:08 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Auditing Tools Hello, I was put in charge of a large TSM system and I would like to perform an a

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Smith, I (Ian)
If you set up the snmp alerting from the library- it will send a trap when the bulk IO loader is full. _ Ian Smith -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Kelly Sent: 04 May 2006 13:34 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIS

Re: AIX Client Restore question

2006-05-04 Thread Bos, Karel
TESTFLAGDISABLENQR ?? Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: donderdag 4 mei 2006 16:06 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: AIX Client Restore question Interesting situation, David. I h

Auditing Tools

2006-05-04 Thread Doug Fox
Hello, I was put in charge of a large TSM system and I would like to perform an audit. I am looking for the following types of information and I was wondering if there's an easy or automated way of having this generated for me. I would like to use a minimal amount of commands to get results from

Re: AIX Client Restore question

2006-05-04 Thread Richard Sims
Interesting situation, David. I have not encountered any client controls for Restartable Restore (supported or otherwise): it is implicit, and always in effect (for NQR). One way to address the issue is to reduce your server RESTOREINTERVAL value. This is the simplest solution. Another is for y

Scripting the Halt Command

2006-05-04 Thread Barnes, Kenny
Anyone have a script for halting TSM from Cron? I want to scheduler TSM starts. TSM 5.3 running on Solaris 9 Kenny Barnes Enterprise Storage Team GMAC Insurance 336-770-8280 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Constant / new errors with Netware 6.0 servers and 5.2.4.x client

2006-05-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are having constant problems with Netware 6.0 server backups, since installing the latest supported clients (5.2.4.10) on these systems. The errors/problems were not seen before with the older clients. We also moved these systems to a newer TSM server (Linux 5.3.2 vs z/OS 5.2). We are cons

Fw: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
What about using the "remove=untileefull" parameter on the "move drm" command? Fills the IO slots, then stops. After the IO door is cleared, you can rerun the command to continue ejecting tapes. Nick Cassimatis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AIX Client Restore question

2006-05-04 Thread David Browne
My AIX admin has created a script for some of our users on our AIX clients to run a restore command. One of the users canceled the restore leaving a pending restartable restore. This caused the backup to fail last night. Is there a parm for the Unix client to say restartable restore=no? The info

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Kauffman, Tom
The 3584 is pretty much an automatic tape mounter with bulk storage and no real 'smarts'. If you want it to do something, you need to tell it. I've got two perl scripts I use for checkout and checkin. The checkout script finds all copy pool tapes with data on them and checks them out (we don't use

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Kelly
Both of these processes require scripting in order to automate things to the point that the 3584 appears more 3494-ish. We use a perl script to kick off the 'move drm' command (or 'checkout libv' command, take your pick) and monitor the TSM server messages via a dsmadmc -consolemode session. If t

TSM and SNMP agent

2006-05-04 Thread Bernaldo de Quiros, Iban 1
Hi World, Did anyone know where to find the following information about TSM and the SNMP agent ¿? -installation -tune up -others Thanks in advance. regards, Ibán Bernaldo de Quirós Márquez Technical Specialist cell: + 34 659 01 91 12 Sun Microsystems Iberia

Re: Client restores for NFS server backups

2006-05-04 Thread Dirk Kastens
Hi, Question: if user smith logs on to nfsclient1, is there a way for him to restore his own /home/smith files without knowing nfssrv1's TSM password? We have the same problem. Users have to call us to get their /home files restored, because they don't have access to the backup server. The onl