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Re: Anyone using NetTAPE with ADSM ?

1997-10-06 22:01:05
Subject: Re: Anyone using NetTAPE with ADSM ?
From: Trevor Foley <Trevor.Foley AT BANKERSTRUST.COM DOT AU>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 12:01:05 +1000
Trevor Foley@BT_AUSTRALIA
07/10/97 12:01 PM

Hi,

I said that I would add another message once I had NetTape up and running
with ADSM. So here it is.

After much trial and error, I finally have NetTape working with ADSM.
Although at this stage we haven't pushed it at all; the ADSM server that
has NetTape installed goes live tomorrow.

I have heard that others have had reliability issues with this
configuration so we are making sure that we will be able to easily go back
to a more standard configuation if needed.

A few of the issues that we have come across:

   The documentation says that the ADSM library name must be the same as a
   NetTape device pool name. But it doesn't make it clear that it cannot be
   an 'esoteric' device pool
   We have not be able to get the ADSM stand-alone utilities such as DUMPDB
   to work with NetTape controlled devices. We had to change our devconfig
   file back to a standard configuration to be able to use these
   As I mentioned in a previous message, the documentation is quite pool.
   Most of what you need to know is documented, but not necessarily in the
   NetTape documentation. I would strongly advise anyone looking to set up
   NetTape that they get there hands on the redbook 'AIX Tape Management'
   (SG24-4705-00) as there are some items covered in there that just are
   not in the NetTape documentation

I will give more details in a few days as to whether NetTape has been a
success or not once we start using it in anger.


Trevor
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