Hi Geoff,
are you aware of the new command in 6.3, "perform libaction"? I haven't run it
yet, but the help
seems to be saying that if you have san discovery running, then just define the
library and then
run the command and it will create all the drives and paths.
I have 2 scripts which run in the library manager to give the status of things.
First, 'qdr'. It selects from the drives and paths table to get the status of
each drive.
It also calls a script in the clients to get info about what they are doing
with the drives.
Notice that it finds an error, a path is offline (and will be forever, the
drive is busted and off
maintenance).
tsm: LIBRARY_MANAGER>run qdr
DRIVE Online? ELEMENT Serial number DEVICE
STATUS VOLUME USER
---------- ------- ------- ------------- ----------------
---------- ------ --------------------------
DRIVE00 NO 500 MXP9A00Q1K /dev/rmt/3mt
EMPTY
DRIVE01 YES 501 MXP9C03CFC /dev/rmt/7mt
LOADED 004213 TSM_SERVER_2_FOR_DESKTOPS
DRIVE02 NO 502 HUL2L00510 /dev/rmt/4mt
EMPTY
DRIVE03 NO 503 MXP6K01S8B /dev/rmt/8mt
EMPTY
DRIVE04 YES 504 MXP081372B /dev/rmt/15mt
EMPTY
DRIVE05 YES 505 MXP07455EV /dev/rmt/12mt
EMPTY
DRIVE06 YES 506 MXP0913CKG /dev/rmt/13mt
EMPTY
DRIVE07 NO 507 HU10847L10 /dev/rmt/14mt
EMPTY
Paths offline
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path from server TSM_SERVER_2_FOR_DESKTOPS to drive DRIVE00 is
not online
ANR1699I Resolved TSM1 to 4 server(s) - issuing command RUN tapes against
server(s).
ANR1687I Output for command 'RUN tapes ' issued against server
TSM_SERVER_2_FOR_DESKTOPS follows:
process Tape in use
----------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXP N Current input volumes: 004213,(2689 Seconds)
Second, 'qlib'. This just lists the counts of tapes and which client server
owns them. This is a dual media
setup, lto2 and lto3.
tsm: LIBRARY_MANAGER>run qlib
Free cells
-----------
23
STATUS MEDIATYPE Count of tapes
---------- ----------- --------------
Cleaner 387 2
Private 394 87
Private 417 383
Scratch 394 169
Scratch 417 14
Server name Tapes owned by server
-------------------------------- ---------------------
LIBRARY_MANAGER 4
TSM_SERVER_2_FOR_DESKTOPS 183
TSM_SERVER_FOR_DESKTOPS 58
TSM_SERVER_FOR_SERVERS 225
I am willing to send you the scripts, or put them in a common download site.
Hope this helps,
Bill Colwell
Draper Lab
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Geoff Gill
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 11:25 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: More on Library Manager/Library Client
Hi again,
I'd like to go back to my post yesterday on this subject to see if there are
folks out there using this functionality who would be willing to share their
typical daily problems. This kind of goes along with the other post from
yesterday when Nick brought up the "Teaching Problem Solving" issue. Since I'm
what you would call "one of those contractors" now, and even my contacts are
half a world away, I will be relied upon to work the other half of the
schedule. I'm also asking because I have no experience with this configuration
but will soon be involved in troubleshooting problems. While I'm sure I will
initially look fairly ignorant on the subject, even though they knew up front
my experience, I'd prefer to be proactive and find out as much as possible,
from wherever possible, what folks consider to be their daily routine in this
area and how they go about locating and fixing problems. I'm also wondering if
the problems are the same sort of issues we see
with a single TSM server/library/drive(s) configurations. These won't be all
the questions so please add what you wish. As with all IBM publications what I
see it the "how to's" related to initializing systems, at least I haven't seen
any troubleshooting advice for those who are coming into new situations. Hence
the reason I go here.
So here are some of my questions:
1. What are some of the daily issues you see related to the manager/client
setup/communication if any and what commands do you run to see if everything
'looks good"?
2. Where do you start if you're running commands to see if things "look good"?
From the documentation it looks like they are typically all run from the
Library Manager. Is this correct?
3. Are there any configurations to view from the client?
4. What commands do you run to view configurations/errors?
5. If you have scripts would you be willing to share them? Would you also be
willing to share a snip-it of their output?
6. Are there client logs to check?
7. What commands, if any, might you use on the server logs to locate problems?
8. Since I don't know the environment yet I don't know if scripts are already
set up, but I do know that no matter what I've done I've always found someone
here who has done it better. This is why I keep my own list of commands and
scripts over the years. Unfortunately I have nothing related to this subject
since I was never exposed to it.
I would really appreciate any and all information those willing to share have.
In the mean time I'll see if I can search old messages for some clues that
might get me started.
Thank You all for anything you can provide.
Geoff Gill
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