hi all, i've been thinking ...
is one storage agent enough to serve all lanfree clients we wish to back up
?

for example:
on server A which is STA i have running dsmsta with following configuration

root@hptdb02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/StorageAgent/bin # more dev*
set staname STA_2
set stapassword password
set stahladdress sta_2.domain.hr
set stalladdress 1511
define server MAIN_TSM serverpassword=password hladdress=main_tsm.domain..hr
lladdress=1500

&

root@hptdb02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/StorageAgent/bin # more dsmsta.opt
SERVERNAME MAIN_TSM
DEVCONFIG devconfig.out
COMMmethod TCPIP
TCPPort 1511

this server A sees the LTO drives as local drives /dev/rmt*, hard linked as
per manual


on client (server B) in dsm.sys i have

...
ENABLELANFREE       yes
COMMmethod         TCPip
LANFREETCPPort 1511
LANFREECOMMMETHOD TCPip
LANFREETCPServeraddress sta_2.domain.hr
TCPPort            1500
TCPServeraddress   main_tsm.domain.hr
...

now my question is : when i define /dev/rmt drives i must do it on STA
server (A) which sees the drives phisicaly and hardlinked
to /dev directory exactly as seen by the MAIN_TSM server

OR

can i place dummy /dev/rmt* on client server since it's using information
from STA server which sees the drives (rmt's) for real ?

how do you manage it ?  i got a feeling after some implementation that STA
must be installed and configured on every server which has BA client
ready to backup/archove on it ... (this is maybe even true)

it would be nice that 1 STA i enough and lanfree BA clients can use him ...
i think i need a vacation, i talk too much

thanks.

my new record :-)
-------------------------------------------------------
Total number of objects inspected:      253
Total number of objects backed up:      253
Total number of objects updated:          0
Total number of objects rebound:          0
Total number of objects deleted:          0
Total number of objects expired:          0
Total number of objects failed:           0
Total number of bytes transferred:     2.96 TB
LanFree data bytes:                    2.96 TB
Data transfer time:                3,948.46 sec
Network data transfer rate:        805,348.31 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:      110,039.74 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:                    0%
Elapsed processing time:           08:01:37




TSM 5.3.4
AIX 5.2
LTO3
bla bla ...