Magzine locked by host system!! strange issue

[khurram]

Guys

I am facing an strange issue with TSM 5.5 and TS3200 library

Sometimes, IO station of this library get locked by itself and when i try to unlock the IO station it says "Magzine locked by host system".

There was no process running inside TSM , except that one drive was mounted for some backup process ( even its cartridge was in ide state)

Even i tried to run audit library to resolve this issue, but audit process started , however there was no activity inside library and i finally cancelled the process.

Any ideas, there are no errors in activity log!

The only way , which i found to resolve is to run reinventory from library panel,

BUT this is not the correct solution!!

Please help

 

[gardenia]

Did any one found out the solution for the same???

Even I too facing the same problem now...

kindly help out...

 

[Samuel]

What are your return code ???
Sametime i have a similary problem, i restart the LibraryManager because because he lost his feet, and it's impossible to communicate with the TapeLibrary.

 

[sandeep_nandy]

Simple solution.. my guess you are using windows OS

Goto -> Run -> type services.msc and press enter. You will enter in the windows services window. Goto Removable storage service -- Stop it, goto its properties and disable it. Restart your system and you will be fine.

 

[gardenia]

Goto -> Run -> type services.msc and press enter. You will enter in the windows services window. Goto Removable storage service -- Stop it, goto its properties and disable it. Restart your system and you will be fine.

Its under AIX platform...

Can you suggest me for AIX operating system...

 

[Samuel]

on AIX

halt TSM Library Manager
reboot server aix
test

Its under AIX platform...

Can you suggest me for AIX operating system...

 

[sandeep_nandy]

Never seen for aix

I have not seen for aix. It may be possible that the drives are in use by some other application or process. in linux there is lcof command i guess to see. For aix,you can test bu shutting down aix and then see if it is still showing magazine locked.

 

[gardenia]

Sorry to post so many questions...

U mean to say I need to halt TSM Server service???

I didn't configure any library manager as of now...

Do I need to really configure the library manager for this???

 

[Samuel]

Hi gardenia,
Before stop your LibraryManager, you can test this command (display what tape are mounted on what drives) :select LIBRARY_NAME, DRIVE_NAME, VOLUME_NAME, ALLOCATED_TO from drives where drive_state != 'EMPTY'

For me, i start this command and after on TSM Library Manager i do Halt, and on the server aix, i reboot command.

I have tsm server 5.5.3 on aix 5.2

 

[Samuel]

Library Manager is required if you have multiple TSM servers and they use the same robot (physical or virtual tape).

I have 4 servers tsm and one library manager for managed IBM TS3500(tape 3592) and vtf.

Sorry to post so many questions...
I didn't configure any library manager as of now...

Do I need to really configure the library manager for this???

 

[gardenia]

Hi gardenia,
Before stop your LibraryManager, you can test this command (display what tape are mounted on what drives) :select LIBRARY_NAME, DRIVE_NAME, VOLUME_NAME, ALLOCATED_TO from drives where drive_state != 'EMPTY'

For me, i start this command and after on TSM Library Manager i do Halt, and on the server aix, i reboot command.

I have tsm server 5.5.3 on aix 5.2

Hi Samuel,

I have TS3200 tape library with 1 TSM Server. I haven't configured library manager as of now.

I too found the tape drive is empty and no schedules/process are running.

Shal I halt the TSM Server service and restart the TSM Server once?

Kindly suggest!!!