Hi,

My workaround for that is having an administrative dir (local or nfs shared if 
you prefer) with the following contents:

* 1 dsm.sys file containing the minimum necessary dsmadmc configuration of all 
the servers to be managed, like this:

[tico01]/tsms/zero/etc # cat dsm.sys
SErvername      zero_server1
        passwordaccess          generate
          passworddir             /tsms/zero/etc
        commmethod              tcpip
        tcpserveraddr           aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd or fqdn
        tcpport                 xxxx
        errorlogretention       7 D
        errorlogname            /tsms/zero/log/server1_dsmerror.log
SErvername      zero_server2
...
...             and so on and so forth 
...
SErvername      zero_serverN
        passwordaccess          generate
          passworddir             /tsms/zero/etc
        commmethod              tcpip
        tcpserveraddr           aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd or fqdn
        tcpport                 xxxx
        errorlogretention       7 D
        errorlogname            /tsms/zero/log/serverN_dsmerror.log


* 1 link to the language files (you can place then there if you prefer)

[tico01]/tsms/zero/etc # ls -al en_US
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          36 Nov 14  2008 en_US -> 
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/en_US/


* Optionally, if you want to use different admin id's and passwords per server, 
you can have a configuration file to feed a script that will launch dsmadmc 
whith those id's.


* Launch dsmadmc manually on the sell or shell script, this way:

        DSM_DIR=/tsms/zero/etc/  /usr/bin/dsmadmc -SErvername=zero_$TSM_SERVER 
-dateformat=3 -numberformat=5 -id=$user -pass=$pass -outfile TSM_COMMAND

Just use or export "DSM_DIR=dir_with_the_admin_dsm_sys_file" so that dsmadmc 
reads it, instead of reading the default client dsm.sys file.


Hope this helps.

Regards,

Justino Miguel Costa
Solution Specialist 
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Nick Laflamme
Sent: terça-feira, 5 de Janeiro de 2010 15:54
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Disparate Client Options

Does it annoy or hinder anyone else that the "tcpserver" and "tcpport" options 
supported by the Windows version of dsmadmc aren't supported by the Unix 
clients? 

This seems to be a  deliberate choice by IBM; the 5.5.2 levels of the client 
make a point to quit with an error message if I try to use them; in the 5.5.1 
level, my attempts to use them are merely ignored. 

I want them so I can have scripts issue QUERY SERVER commands against a central 
server and use that output to connect to new (or existing) TSM servers I 
maintain. Apparently, in the Unix world, I'm supposed to keep dsm.sys up to 
date on every Unix server on which I might run my scripts instead of 
dynamically specifying these parameters. Part of it is because of the number of 
servers on which I might access these scripts; part of is because we anticipate 
rolling out waves of new servers in the future as we retire older servers. 
Either way, the thought of keeping dsm.sys up to date just so I can run 
administrative scripts is annoying, to put it mildly. 

Anyone else with me on this?

Thanks,
Nick

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