regarding 3:
1- sandiscovery should help resolve this
2- to avoid sandiscovery I've created a shell script to rename the tape devices
based on serial or wwpn so each drive has the same name on every server.
On 6 jun. 2012, at 19:12, Alex Paschal wrote:
> Hi, Geoff. Congrats. Let's see if we can get you hitting the ground running.
>
> Because I'm often on customer computers without access to the Internet from
> my own laptop, I Google:
> tivoli storage manager 6.3 information center
> I take the first option, and when the infocenter comes up, I click "Printable
> PDF documentation" and download the pdfs to the customer's workstation. I
> use Firefox with DownloadThemAll to make it a pretty fast and easy process.
>
> For the support site, I google: tivoli storage manager support portal
>
> Maintenance and Patches are at: ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com > Tivoli Storage
> Management
>
> Library manager/client is pretty easy. Here's the recipe.
> 1) Configure server-to-server communications
> 2) Define library on library manager
> a) define library lib1 libtype=scsi shared=yes
> b) define path server1 lib1 as usual
> c) define drive/path for all drives as usual
> e) label/checkin libvol
> 3) Look at the serial numbers or wwpns of the drives (q drive f=d)
> 4) Configure each library client (e.g. server2)
> a) define library lib1 libtype=shared primarylibmanager=server1
> b) figure out which drives go with which rmts based on #3
> c) Log into server1, issue a bunch of "define path" statements for server2
> d) Test
>
> Some notes:
> On libmgr (server1), q libvol f=d, observe "owner" information
> update libvol A12345L5 owner=server2 (might be necessary some day)
> With libraries with many drives (VTLs) or clients, #3, #4b, and #4c are best
> scripted.
>
> Once upon a time, running audit library from a library client would wipe out
> all the owner information for all the libvols owned by other library clients.
> I don't know if that's been fixed. Since then, I've just created scripts to
> simply "update libvol" the owner information for all the appropriate libvols
> if it was ever necessary.
>
> Good luck!
> Alex
>
>
> On 6/6/2012 7:13 AM, Geoff Gill wrote:
>> Hello,
>> While I've interviewed for numerous positions the past 2 years, up until now
>> I had been passed over for someone with "more recent experience". So giving
>> up a 5 day a week zamboni job with little pay and 5am start times was
>> actually hard to do when I got the call, believe it or not. It was also
>> difficult leaving because the CHL team just added 4 retired NHL players as
>> owners/coaches/team advisers, and a new coach, which means this team is
>> going to be even more competitive in the future. Craig Ludwig, Richard
>> Matvichuk (Assistant coach), Ed Belfour and Mike Modano, Along with current
>> owner Steve Duchesne, will bring real talent to the team, which is the very
>> reason I would prefer to be at the rink every day instead of sitting at
>> home.
>> Anyway, I have just been given a 6 month engagement to help with TSM at a
>> local site here in Dallas. I get to work from home but currently do not have
>> a laptop or access to the environment. While waiting I've been asked to
>> brush up on TSM DB restores, which I have done on 5.5, and TSM Library
>> Manager/Lib Client configuration, which I am not familiar with, so I'm
>> looking for the current IBM document storage site, while looking for
>> responses I'll certainly look myself but wanted to try to make contact with
>> those of you familiar with the Library Manager. I don't have information as
>> to the version(s) of TSM I'll be dealing with but as I recall the site, as
>> it used to be configured, allowed you to select quite easily. And while I've
>> kept most of my notes from the past I don't have links to those places I
>> used to get information. Again, since I have never worked with the TSM
>> Library Manager/Lib Client config it's going to be from scratch learning.
>> Currently I only receive a single ADSM-L daily email, so I will probably
>> change that to get a more real time response update to questions I might
>> post.
>>
>>
>> Please feel free to send me info or questions directly, email below, off
>> topic hockey questions are always welcome. I know Richard is quite close to
>> some great hockey, he most certainly knows his TSM though, which is what
>> this list is for obviously.
>>
>>
>> Thank You for any info you can send my way
>> Geoff Gill
>> avalnche96 AT yahoo DOT com
>>
>>
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