Re: Can't get Data path Failover working ...

David,
 
Thanks for your help...
You were definitively right asking me to double check the key : I indeed
did invert a "9" with a "g" within it ! 
I already made an appointment with my ophthalmologist  ;-)
Sorry for annoyances !
BRGDS.
 
Arnaud

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
David McClelland
Sent: Tuesday, 06 December, 2005 17:39
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Subject: Re: Can't get Data path Failover working ...



Hi Arnaud, 

Have you double and triple-checked that the key you entered in was
correct *and* the hex chars are in lower case (I think that's the right
way around)? Note that you can configure all of your valid drives at
once, instead of individually, to support DPF with
"/usr/lpp/Atape/instAtape -a". 

Rgds,

David McClelland 
Storage and Systems Management Specialist 
IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM 5.2) 
SSO UK Service Delivery - Storage Services 
IBM Global Services - IBM United Kingdom 
        




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Hi List,

I'm trying to activate the data path failover feature we bought with our
brand new 3584 library (12 LTO3 drives), without success ... 
O.S. is AIX 5.3.0.0 ml 02.- Atape driver is at 9.6.0.0
The actual (test) setup looks like :  6 drives are connected thru fcs2
and fcs3, the other ones thru fcs4 :

fcs2      Available 06-08 FC Adapter
fcs3      Available 09-08 FC Adapter
fcs4      Available 0A-08 FC Adapter

rmt1  Available 06-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt2  Available 06-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt3  Available 06-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt4  Available 09-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt5  Available 09-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt6  Available 09-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt7  Available 0A-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt8  Available 0A-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt9  Available 0A-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt10 Available 0A-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt11 Available 0A-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt12 Available 0A-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt13 Available 06-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt14 Available 06-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt15 Available 06-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt16 Available 09-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt17 Available 09-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt18 Available 09-08-02     IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)

The zoning on our Cisco MDS has been defined so that both FCS2 and FCS3
are able to see the first 6 drives (therefore 18 drives are seen by the
system)

Following IBM's Redbook "implementing IBM tape in UNIX systems -
sg246502", I have installed the DPF license key : 

dpf_keys
Installed dpf keys:
       values = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (hidden to protect the key)

Now , each time I try to enable DPF for a drive, I get following error :

chdev -l rmt1 -a alt_pathing=yes 
Method error (/etc/methods/chgAtape):
0514-018 The values specified for the following attributes
are not valid:

Feature Code 1681 License key not found for Alternate Pathing Feature 
Run dpf_keys -a key to install a license key 

Anyone having an idea of what I'm missing ?
Thanks in advance !
Regards.

Arnaud

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