We're getting requests from a number of people who have their desktop computers (mix of Macs and Windows XP/Vista) backed up to TSM, for a way to avoid leaving them on all night. The issue is simple
Why not just give them a warning/mandate that if they are working late, they need to go out under services and disable the TSM client scheduler until they are done working, then start the scheduler b
Roger - A Macintosh can be scheduled to start up and/or shut down at chosen times on chosen days, through the Energy Saver system preference, and thus be alive for TSM client schedule activity. It's
Author: Steven Harris <sjharris AT AU1.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:30:12 +1000
Hi Roger I've not done it but.... There is a "wake on lan" function available. Send an appropriately crafted packet to the ethernet port and the machine will boot, if configured properly. If you use
Author: David Bronder <david-bronder AT UIOWA DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:45:36 -0500
What about a POSTSCHEDULECOMMAND that puts the computer into hibernate or standby mode instead of shutting it down? On the days someone is working late, they can just wake it back up. If this situati
Author: Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:06:52 -0400
Well, you could try wrapping the "shutdown" program in a script with some intelligence behind it. I put a VBScript together fairly quickly on my XP workstation and it seems to work okay (see below).
I know a few options: 1- use CDP for files to backup workstations, this is a windows only solution but I think it does provide more functionality and is actually even cheaper than the normal TSM clie
We are working on scripts that address this, along the lines of what others have suggested. We have a pair of scripts, as follows: preschedcmd script: prompts user before backup runs and gives them a
Thnaks for everyone's ideas. We've got quite a bit to chew on here. Especially on Earth Day. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rogerd AT uic DOT edu == "Whether you think you can or ca
Author: Ian Smith <ian.smith AT OUCS.OX.AC DOT UK>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:31:11 +0100
Hi Roger, I can see you have had a few replies: we at Oxford have been chewing on this for a while and have two solutions: 1. quick and dirty, run a PostNSchedulecmd as below ( machine only shuts dow