Wrong 'tsm'.  tsm is the module in AIX (SYSV) that is the login broker (it
does getty, and login).

The messages below indicate that something is getting a 'password: ' prompt
but not typing anything or hitting enter before a timeout value.

You are not looking at a TSM (ADSM, WDSF...) problem here, you are looking
at a AIX thing.  Look to see if you have some type of monitoring set up that
trys to log in to the machine at an interval to see if it is responding.

bob

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:02:23PM -0400, Prather, Wanda wrote:
> Need some help from you AIX wizards out there.
>
> I have a new TSM environment; there are 4 p-series servers, all at AIX 5.1
> in 32bit mode.
>
> One is a dedicated TSM server, with the unimaginative hostname of "TSM".
> (OK, so we're not creative - that's why we have the techie jobs...)
>
> The other 3 servers have hostnames like P6xxxx.
>
> The TSM server is 5.1.6.3; the TSM clients are all 5.1.6.something.
> The P6xxxx severs back up (incremental) to the TSM server nightly, on a
> POLLING schedule.
> Incrementals are all done by 2am.
> The clients contact the server every 8 hours for work (queryschedperiod 8).
> >From their dsmsched.log files, everything seems to be working fine.
>
> Here's the problem:
> On each of the P6xxxx hosts, (but not the TSM server), the syslog shows LOTS
> of records like the ones below, coming every 20 minutes to an hour apart,
> every day.
>
> It appears that the TSM server is trying to contact them on some sort of
> virtual terminal session?
> There is no TELNET or FTP scheduled between the servers, and since nothing
> is broke, I don't know what to look for to fix.  There is no process on any
> machine named "TSM".  Rebooting the TSM server doesn't stop it.
>
> Can anybody tell me what these records represent?  Thanks!
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Jul  9 14:07:29 p6xxxx tsm: /dev/pts/31: 3004-031 Password read timed out --
> possible noise on port
> Jul  9 14:07:29 p6xxxx tsm:  /dev/pts/31: 3004-031 Password read timed out
> -- possible noise on port
> Jul  9 14:08:20 p6xxxx tsm:  /dev/pts/34: 3004-031 Password read timed out
> -- possible noise on port
> etc
> etc