If you run backups the old way, by using the scheduler service, when you
make changes to dsm.opt you must restart the scheduler service.

If you are running your backups with the "managedservices" option (i.e.,
the dsmcad/acceptor service), no restart is needed when you change
DSM.opt.  (Because what dsmcad does is toggle the scheduler on/off,
essentially restarting the scheduler each time a backup is run.)

If you make changes to a cloptset, no restart of ANYTHING is required.

Wanda Prather
"I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O"  -(me)


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Paul Fielding
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:09 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: dsm scheduler on windows


Actually, this brings up a good question that I've never properly
tested.
When running a scheduler service *without* an Acceptor service, then you
most definitely need to restart the service for changes to take place.

But how about when running an Acceptor service?  It makes sense to me
that
the Acceptor would need to be restarted whenever an option is changed
that
the acceptor must deal with, eg. tcpserveraddress, schedmode, etc.  Some
options, however, are only relevant to the scheduler service itself,
such as
exclude lists, dirmc, domain, etc.

Since the scheduler service is started at the appropriate time by the
acceptor, does this imply that the acceptor does not need to be
restarted
for these options?    My personal belief is no - it doesn't need to be
restarted if the changed option is one that the acceptor doesn't touch.
I
haven't tested this properly, however.  Anyone proved/disproved this?

Related Note:  When changing items in a Cloptset, is there any
requirement
to restart a client scheduler?  Documentation doesn't make this clear.
Again, my belief is no, it doesn't need to be done, however I have not
tested this....

regards,

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rushforth, Tim" <TRushforth AT WINNIPEG DOT CA>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] dsm scheduler on windows


> If you make a change in dsm.opt you have to restart the schedule
service
> for scheduled operations to pick up the change.
>
> The schedule service reads the option file at startup.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [mailto:mikee AT MIKEE.ATH DOT CX]
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: dsm scheduler on windows
>
> Trying to set up an easier way to manage the configuration
> (dsm.opt) on windows files. One comment mentioned today is
> that anytime the dsm.opt changes the dsm sched service must
> be cycled. Is that true? I thought only the windows equivilant
> program to dsmc would read dsm.opt and as such it is the
> only think that might need cycling or tweaking of dsm.opt changes.
>
> What's the real answer?
>
> Mike
>