WOW - such harsh words about 6.1 !   I don't agree......my main production
6.x system is 6.1.5.10 with no issues.  At least it hasn't had this wacky,
problem my other 6.2.x servers have had with a DB backup randomly,
intermittently failing with no discernible reason....(note, there are docs
that say you really need to be at least at 6.1.4.1 to resolve some big
problems, especially with reorgs)


Zoltan Forray
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From:   "Prather, Wanda" <wPrather AT ICFI DOT COM>
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:   02/28/2012 05:57 AM
Subject:        Re: [ADSM-L] Deployment Engine Failed to initialize
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



What Remco said.
Nothing Good will Happen on 6.1.
I finally got a production system stable on 6.1.3 by disabling reorgs, but
that was Windows.
I wouldn't even think of doing it on Linux.

W

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Remco Post
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:10 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Deployment Engine Failed to initialize

Hi,

do not use TSM server 6.1, not even if you have no other options. 6.1 does
not even begin to approach alpha quality software. IBM should never have
shipped it. I can't think of a single good reason to install 6.1. Go with
6.2.3 or newer or 6.3 something.



On 27 feb. 2012, at 22:57, George Huebschman wrote:

> We are getting the "Deployment Engine Failed to Initialize" when
> running ./install.bin for TSM Server 6.1 on a clean new RHEL server.
> I see lots of noise out here about this error, in and out of the TSM
world.
>
> (We have another TSM installation of TSM 6.3 on a VM  that isn't even
> QA as such, just a practice install.) Documetation specifies that
> there be 2GB available in the home directory.
> We only have 1.6 GB, BUT so does the successful 6.3 install.
> We had the error on the first and subsequent 3 attempts to run the
> install.  We did not find any .lock or .lck files.
> I am told that SELINUX is set to permissive.
>
> Except for the home directory, the other space guidelines were met.
> The install is being done as root.
>
> Looking at the TSM related posts about this issue, I didn't notice any
> for releases after 6.1.
> Is that because I didn't look hard enough?  Or, was documentation
> improved, or was a bug fixed?
>     Should I talk someone into 6.2 to get past this?
>
> Most of my experience has been with 5.* I have read the install guide
> (most of it) for 6.2, which is what I thought we were installing.  Do
> I need to step back in documentation?
>
>
> --
> George Huebschman
>
> "When you have a choice, spend money where you would prefer to work if
> you had NO choice."

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Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
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