Jerry:

Thanks for the info --- the file name we received was from the Novell site
itself (that's how we knew what it was called because there was no
reference to it on the IBM site), but I wasn't the one who actually found
this particular entry during our searches. I'll continue the search in the
"patches" section of the Novell site as well. Also, I had previously passed
along some Netware tuning info from the V3 tuning guide (still in draft) to
the Novell folks to make certain they had a few IP parms set correctly for
ADSM, but will also have them review the parms you mention below.

C.L.Cannam
Storage Management
GENAM/St. Louis, MO/USA
ccannam AT genam DOT com




Jerry Mickelson <MICJE01 AT NWP DOT COM> on 06/02/98 07:33:19 AM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: Cindy Cannam)
Subject:  Re: adsm and v2 novell client




Cindy,
You should look on Novell web site under support.  They have a page for
'latest' patches that are appropriate for each os ver.  Just an fyi, make
sure that the streams, clibs, ethertsm, msm, tcpip, etc. are all upgrade to
most current versions.  One site was unable to make any backups until all
these were brought to most currents.  Once in place, the tool works pretty
good....
Thanks!!

Jerry Mickelson
Director of Information Technologies
Network Plus, Inc.
email: jmickelson AT nwp DOT com

>>> Cindy Cannam <CCannam AT GENAM DOT COM> 06/01 4:54 PM >>>
To all:
I've just recently installed ADSM v2 client code in our Novell 3.11/3.12
environment. We've been having a rough time with TCP/IP (which was
installed in March/April, 1998) time-outs, etc. It's been more than
difficult to get a complete full backup done with all the interruptions,
and I still don't feel confident that we've attained a true initial backup
on some of the servers. And we're not slated for V3 upgrade until later in
July. The backups are needed now.
After a few frustrating days, the Novell folks and I started looking for
fixes for the TCP/IP environment with ADSM. We found an entry specific to
Novell, IP, and ADSM on the Novell site. Unfortunately, it refers to a file
we haven't been able to locate on the IBM site, and don't have Compuserve
available to access to retrieve it according to Novell's own instructions.
The file is called NOV20256.3DI --- when installed with a v2 client, it
updates files related to Novell with ADSM, and the TSA312 NLM is also
provided. This directly corresponds to the problems we're experiencing with
TSA312 messages.
Does anyone know where this file may be found and downloaded? Is it called
something else in another site? We've downloaded the IP21123 files from
IBM's site, but don't have a test machine available to try them out, but
don't know that these are the files we need to get going.
Your help is appreciated!
C.L.Cannam
Storage Management
GENAM/St. Louis, MO/USA
ccannam AT genam DOT com