Hi Joni

Since you will be using Gresham , you do not need to "checkin" the tapes
in TSM. Your q libv will have nothing. ACSLS will be the one handling
scratch tapes.

To have all servers using the same scratch pool, just configure elm.conf
to point to the same scratch pool. This is done with the "Pool" parameter.

As for DRM checkins and checkouts, this has to be handled by Gresham with
the eject_vol command.

Guillaume Gilbert
IT Specialist - TSM
Infrastructure Services Delivery
IBM Global Services
Tel.:  (514) 964-2795
ggilbert AT ca.ibm DOT com



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Hello Everyone!

I am in the process of setting up our new TSM environment with 2 TSM AIX
5.2 servers at the 5.2.2.5 TSM level along with 8 LAN-free Solaris Clients
with an SL8500 library and 18 LTO2 tape drives.  We will be using ACSLS
7.1
to control the library robotics and Gresham to allow tape drive sharing. I
also plan on using DR Manager, but I am still not sure what this entails.
I have some questions concerning this new set up.  If you have any
suggestions, please let me know.  Any help is appreciated!

1.  What ejects the tapes that are full for the offsite DR tapes?  TSM or
ACSLS?  Where/how is this set up?
2.  Where can I see the scratch tapes that I defined to the TSM library? I
checked them in and labeled them on TSM, but where can I view how many
scratch tapes I have, etc?
3.  Does DRM handle marking tapes full/offsite and issuing eject commands
or is this a TSM admin job?
4.  How do I configure this environment so that both TSM servers share the
same scratch pool or would I want to keep them separate?  They are two
entirely different TSM environments and would not be sharing any actual
data.

If anyone has accomplished a similar environment setup and has any plans
or
order of operations or a listing of tasks and which software piece handles
this and would be will to share some of your information, that would be
great!  TIA!


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