Multiple stanza's are quite normal to use, think about TDP's.
Did you tried a different client port number for each scheduler?

Regards,
Maurice van 't Loo
http://mvantloo.nl/


2012/12/12 Ethan Günther <ethan.guenther AT rz.uni-augsburg DOT de>

> Dear List,
>
> for a client with large filespaces, we would like to split the backup up
> into several nodes in order to balance the load. On the basis of the
> TSM-client documentation we created several stanzas in the dsm.sys file
> with different servername entries. In the init-script several dsmc
> processes are started with the -servername option referring to those
> stanzas. Now everything works fine with a 6.2.0.0 client (all processes
> are started and are backing up as expected).
>
> On a very similar box with client version 6.2.4.4 something goes wrong:
> Some dsmc processes are started successfully, some are not, the numbers
> vary. So there could be some runtime condition. The error message
> (printed on stdout) is: "/usr/bin/dsmc already running."
>
> Has anybody observed this issue and knows about a solution?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ethan
>