( This e-mail refer to v2.1 level 14 of ADSM on an NT 4 platform)
Turns out that when you change the server mode from CLIENT POLLING to SERVER
PROMTED  or to ANY the schedules need to be
re-set. When a schedule is created under a specific mode it then keeps the
mode. In our case we had schedules using ANY because the
server mode was set to ANY. Then we changed the server mode to CLIENT
POLLING and made new schedules. This is when we discovered
no one with POLLING in their OPT file was backing up so we changed back to
ANY.

The problem was that we did not re-create the schedules when we went back so
they were still referencing the POLLING mode, which does not
work properly and IBM recommends using ANY.
We recreated the schedules and VOILA!

Lesson learned.

Regards -
CR

________________________
Cris Robinson
Senior Technical Analyst
Enterprise Storage Management
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
603.431.8400.54837
cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com

" When your walking on thin ice you might as well dance!" .. Scott Kirby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virginia Hysock [SMTP:Virginia_L_Hysock AT CSC DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 7:55 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Client in Polling Mode
>
> Chris,
>
>      This may sound elementary - but did you stop/start the scheduler on
> all your
> clients after the change?  Also, if you are using 'ANY', then did you
> configure
> each client to select the appropriate mode?
>
>                          Ginny
>
>
> Date:    Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:23:53 -0400
> From:    "Robinson, Cris" <Cris.Robinson AT LIBERTYMUTUAL DOT COM>
> Subject: Client in Polling mode stopped working
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
>
> I asked this question last week but I thought I would throw it out here
> again.
> We moved to client polling about 7 months ago from prompted mode.
> Recently we accidentally changed the servers to reflect POLLING mode
> rather
> ANY.
> IBM says that this can cause problems. Well, they were right! So we
> changed
> it back to ANY
> but the clients still wont back up during the backup window.
> Has anyone experienced this?
> Thanks -
> CR
> ________________________
> Cris Robinson
> Senior Technical Analyst
> Enterprise Storage Management
> Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
> 603.431.8400.54837
> cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com