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Re: Hanging Windows clients

2003-11-27 09:46:43
Subject: Re: Hanging Windows clients
From: Alexander Verkooijen <alexander AT SARA DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:46:26 +0100
Thanks, upgrading might very well be the solution.
Contrary to what I wrote in my original message
the customer's only machine that is at
the latest level doesn't have this problem.

Regards,

Alexander

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Alexander Verkooijen
Senior Systems Programmer
High Performance Computing
SARA Computing & Networking Services


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: donderdag 27 november 2003 15:19
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Hanging Windows clients
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> We had the same problem here with the Windows Clients 
> (5.1.0).  There is a
> TSM client fix 5.1.6.  that has been 100% successful with all of our
> servers.
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> Hi all,
> 
> One of our customers has a mix of Windows 2000
> and Linux clients. The Windows clients
> run the scheduler service. The service on
> these clients has to be restarted every
> few days because the client hangs in the
> middle of a scheduled incremetal backup.
> The dsmsched.log gives no clue to what is wrong:
> 
> 11/21/2003 02:24:51 Normal File-->            20,240
> \\bla\c$\WINNT\VMMREG32.DLL [Sent]
> 11/21/2003 02:24:51 Normal File-->           256,192
> \\bla\c$\WINNT\WINHELP.EXE [Sent]
> 11/21/2003 02:24:51 Normal File-->           269,584
> \\bla\c$\WINNT\WINHLP32.EXE [Sent]
> 11/21/2003 02:24:51 Normal File-->           193,296
> \\bla\c$\WINNT\WINREP.EXE [Sent]
> 
> And then it stops.
> (The service is still running but it doesn't do anything until
> it is restarted)
> 
> After an hour the session times out and the server terminates it.
> The activity log on the server also contains no messages about
> this client other than the time out message.
> 
> The dsmerror.log contains no messages for the time period the client
> stopped
> backing up.
> 
> Only the Windows clients have this problem, the Linux clients
> are unaffected.
> 
> The clients are mainly 5.1.5.0 but I asked the customer
> to upgrade one of his clients to 5.2.0.6
> He did, but this client shows the same behavior.
> 
> The clients do not use the journal engine service or
> anti-virus software.
> 
> Our server is at Version 5, Release 2, Level 1.2 on AIX 5.1
> 
> We have other customers running Windows clients, none of them has
> this problem.
> 
> I'm probably going to call IBM support about this but I was wondering
> if anybody here has any idea what is going wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander
> 
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> Alexander Verkooijen
> Senior Systems Programmer
> High Performance Computing
> SARA Computing & Networking Services
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