It's interesting how the CONTACT field gets used for general comments.
I've often wished
TSM had a general comment section (variable length) where we could keep
track of
changes made to a node over time.  This would be SO helpfull!

Rick






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We do this also

put a comment in the CONTACT node field with the date the
node can be deleted from TSM, and the ticket number of the request
that asked us to retire the node.



Richard Rhodes wrote:

>"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/22/2008
>12:36:11 PM:
>
>
>>3) We put the clients name into a tracking file with the decommission
>>date, so we don't forget when 90 days is up.
>>
>>
>
>We rename the node with a prefix so decommissioned nodes are easy to spot
>in a "q node" listing.  We would rename nodeX to zzrt_nodeX.
>
>We also put a comment in the CONTACT node field with the date the
>node can be deleted from TSM, and the ticket number of the request
>that asked us to retire the node.
>
>Once a month someone goes through the TSM servers looking at the
>retired nodes and deletes appropriate ones.
>
>
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