TSM controls the library via a second LUN on one or more of the tape
drives.  By default (or by the IBM CE at installation time), the first
drive in the library has the control path enabled, but you can enable
it on additional drives (I believe lin_tape should handle failover for
them).  On AIX, they would be discovered as smc* devices; a quick bit
of Googling suggests with lin_tape, they're /dev/IBMchanger* devices.
You define the library using the control path device.

On the network side, though, you'll likely want TCP port 80 and/or 443
open to the 3584 from somewhere to use the library's web interface, but
that's unlikely to be needed from your TSM server unless you use the
Java CLI from there to monitor or perform tasks on the library.

If you're using a TS3000 System Console to manage your library, that's
a whole other beast, which I've avoided so far.  Maybe someone else can
offer insight there, if you need to know.

I'll defer to someone actually using AME or TKLM for drive encryption
to speak to the networking requirements there.  I'd guess that for AME,
all communication is via the tape device, though.

=Dave


Zoltan Forray wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply but I need more details than that.  Does it need it's
> own fibre connection or does it piggy-back on one of the drives, in this
> case TS1130?  What does it look like on a server? Does it have a separate
> drivers?  For instance, my drives appear as /dev/IBMtapenn due to
> installation of lin_tape?  How do I define the TSM path to the library?
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Denier <
> Thomas.Denier AT jeffersonhospital DOT org> wrote:
>
> > -----Zoltan Forray wrote: -----
> >
> > >I am trying to prepare for the move from our 3494 to a TS3500/3584.
> > >
> > >With the 3494, it needed port 3494 open on the host system that was
> > >the
> > >library manager, for the ibmatl program to function.
> > >
> > >What ports are needed open through the firewall of the Linux servers
> > >that
> > >are library managers (is it as simple as 3584?)?  How about for AME?
> > >Any
> > >additional ports needed for this function from the TS3500 to each
> > >library
> > >manager server (I assume the keys are only stored with the server
> > >that
> > >manages the tapes, not each server that uses a tape - or is this a
> > >bad/wrong assumption?)
> >
> > A TS3500 is eithter a relabeled 3584 or a compatible successor to
> > the 3584; different Web sites give conflicting information on this
> > point.
> >
> > All communications between the TSM server code and a TS3500 travel
> > over the SAN connections between the two.
> >
> > Thomas Denier
> > Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
>


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