That's true if there is a locally-managed domain of the same name on the
node. If the domain is managed by the config server you can update
without trouble. I've gotten around the problem like this though:

1. COPY DOMAIN foo localfoo
2. UPDATE NODE * WHEREDOM=foo DOM=localfoo
3. DELETE DOMAIN foo
3. (make your updates here and NOTIFY SUBSCRIBERS)
4. UPDATE NODE * WHEREDOM=localfoo DOM=foo
5. DELETE DOMAIN localfoo

Lloyd Dieter wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I seem to recall that you could not replicate 
domain/policy/mgmtclass from a configuration manager if there were nodes 
assigned to the domain on the target (client) system.

Which made it pretty inconvenient.

I've used server-server "export policy" to achieve the same result, though.

-Lloyd


On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:41:10 -0800
Skylar Thompson <skylar2 AT U.WASHINGTON DOT EDU> wrote:

As a matter of fact there is. TSM provides "Enterprise Configuration"
functionality, where you define one system as a configuration server and
subscribed other systems to profiles on the configuration server. We've
been using it with TSM 5 and 6 servers without any trouble, and it's
available free-of-charge after the regular TSM server licensing, at
least for extended edition. You can find it documented in Chapter 21 of
the Administrator's Guide:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsml.doc/anrlgd55633.htm#entmgmt

Richard Rhodes wrote:

We are now up to 6 primary TSM instances (as opposed to special purpose
instances).  We try and keep
the policy sets setup the same so we can move nodes between them as needed.
This wasn't bad
when there was only a couple instances, but it's getting more of a issue
with 6 instances.  For example,
I just created a 3mo archive class on one instance . . . and did it 5 more
times on other instances.
(Yes . . the CLI and scripts are your friends!)

q)  If you keep the domains/policysets/mgtclasses in sync across multiple
TSM instances, How do you do it?  There isn't some feature to sync these
across multiple instances?



Thanks

Rick


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