Hi Richard,

Sorry about the mess....there is only one dsmserv.dsk file and it is located at 
/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin 

There are no files at /opt/tivoli/tsm/server, only directories: 

tsmlinux:/opt/tivoli/tsm/server # ls -la
total 11
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root          176 May 11  2005 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root          176 Mar 13  2008 ..
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         2488 Jun  7 13:24 bin
drw-rw-rw-    2 root     root          496 Oct 29  2004 license
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          344 May 11  2005 scripts
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           72 Nov  4  2004 webhelp
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         8344 Nov  4  2004 webimages

As for starting TSM, the server suddenly appeared as DOWN on our monitoring 
tool. When checked, the machine was hung somehow and had to be restarted. When 
coming back, dsmserv.rc failed to start TSM.

After that I just tried to start dsmserv on foreground...to see what was going 
on......that´s it!

Mario








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From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2009 2:27:39 PM
Subject: Re: dsmserv initialization error

Mario -

When posting such problems, please include the context of the attempt,
so that we may better perceive the situation...
Was this the first ever attempt to start this server?  If not, what
has changed - particularly across the restart?  What exactly was the
command used to start it, and from what directory location?

Your initial posting referred an empty dsmserv.dsk file, in /opt/
tivoli/tsm/server/.  But, the server is seemingly trying to use the
dsmserv.dsk file that is in the actual server directory, /opt/tivoli/
tsm/server/bin/.

I would:
Verify the existence of the dsmserv.dsk file in the true server
directory, and that it has proper permissions on it.
'cd' into the true server directory, and perform the start there.
Beyond that, the 212 message might result from a filled Recovery Log -
which gets us back to understanding context.

    Richard Sims


On Jun 7, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mario Behring wrote:

> ...
> ANR0212E Unable to read disk definition file dsmserv.dsk..