Check out the dsmerror.log on the clients, you'll probably get more
information there.
On possibility is that you need to increase your CommTimeOut settings.



Pemberton, Steven wrote:
>
> Guru's,
>
> We've been experiencing "connection severed" errors when running some
> scheduled backups. It's happened about 6 times in the past 14 days, between
> two ADSM servers and their respective nodes.
>
> It mainly seems to effect Oracle agent backups, but AIX file backups have
> been effected too. The activity log looks records this:
>
> 03/09/99 06:09:41     ANR0480W Session 39633 for node CISP (Agent for Orc
> Bkp)
>                        terminated - connection with client severed
>
> 03/11/99 23:25:59     ANR0480W Session 44044 for node HAPPY (AIX) terminated
> -
>                        connection with client severed.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Steven P.