Locking multiple nodes at the same time

[bxtr97]

We will be performing server maintenance over new years on 20 of our servers, these servers are in multiple schedules with other servers that we will not be doing maintenance on so I can't just disable the schedule.

I want to disable the backups for these 20 nodes from 12/31/2010 6:00PM -> 1/1/2011 6:00PM.

The best way I have found is to create a new schedule that will lock the nodes, but it appears that the lock node command can only be run 1 node at a time, meaning I need to make 20 schedules to lock them, then 20 to unlock.

Does anyone have a better way to do this?

thank you for the help.

 

[GregE]

You could create an OS script that loops thru a list, running dsmadmc lock node <variable> with an OS scheduler.

Or put 20 "lock node" lines in a macro an run that in a TSM admn schedule with "cmd='macro <macro_path>'