Hey Mark,

Could your TSM server be running out of sessions (as per MAX SESSIONS?) -
perhaps you have tape mounts holding running sessions, (thus holding their
completion for new sessions)?

The prompter will only contact nodes when it has session slots available
during the backup startup window.

...deon

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 02/10/2003
10:21:01 AM:

> All,
>
> I am running TSM 5.1.6.1  on AIX 5.1ML3.  In the last few weeks it's
> started exhibiting a rather strange problem where the scheduler
> seems not to contact the clients to start the backup schedule.

...deon
---
Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website?
http://www.tuganz.org

Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia
Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816,
IVPN +70 66058
mailto:dgeorge AT au1.ibm DOT com, http://www.ibm.com/tivoli