All,

I am running TSM 5.1.6.1  on AIX 5.1ML3.  In the last few weeks it's started 
exhibiting a rather strange problem where the scheduler seems not to contact 
the clients to start the backup schedule.

Halting TSM and restarting it seems to fix it for a few days and then it will 
start again.

Checking the actlog, I stop seeing 'Schedule prompter contacting...' messages.  
And, of course, the following day I see a whole stack of 'Missed' backups.  
Sometimes the prompter may contact one or two (out of about 100) systems before 
stopping altogether.  We have 100 Nodes - 50 Unix (Solaris/Linux/AIX) and 50 
NT/2000 systems.  All are running file-based backups.   We also have a single 
Notes server (NT) that's backed up using TDP.  All are in prompted mode.

I haven't been able to find any error messages in the TSM log.  Just an absence 
of prompter messages like I said before.

Can anyone help?

Mark


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Mark Ferraretto
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Deutsche Bank Hong Kong
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