The only thing you have to do is
        precede your adsm commands with dsmadmc like dsmadmc -ID=<admin>
-PA=<admin> upd ...
        put these commands in a shell script
        put these commands in a shell script
        and run this shell script from cron
If you haven't installed the administrative client on your server you
can run this on any client.

Hope this helps.

Karlheinz

Kelly J. Lipp wrote:
>
> But create an individual schedule for each is what you must do!  Sorry about 
> that.  Wait until you try to get the timing just right...
>
> Kelly
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Scott Temonia [SMTP:Scott.Temonia AT LAITRAM DOT COM]
> Sent:   Tuesday, November 18, 1997 4:12 PM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        Re: Scheduling Administrative Commands on the Server
>
> >Sounds like you are mixing up two different things:
> >1. You can define an "Administrative Command Schedule" that specifies an
> > actual ADSM command.  Or
> >2. You can define a "Client Schedule" with an ACTION=Command where
> >you can use the "OBJECTS=" parameter with the name of a UNIX script.
> >If you want to use option 1 you can write and invoke an ADSM macro to
> >run more than one ADSM command.
> >If you want to write a UNIX script, go with option 2 and treat the server
> >as a client. This seems like overkill if all you want to do is server
> >administrative commands. Otherwise, why not use cron?
> >The real neat thing about option 2 is that you can run ANY command
> >as the root user on any of your clients. You just need to schedule it ;-)
>
> Maybe I need to clarify my question so that I'm not confusing the issue.  I
> hope this clarification doesn't confuse the issue even more though.
>
> The server administrative commands that I want to run are ADSM commands,
> not AIX server admin commands.  I don't think I can run ADSM administrative
> commands from cron (I'd like to know how if I can)
>
> I set up an administrative schedule that points to a script called test.sh.
> The path to the script within the administrative command in the "command
> field" is /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/scripts/test.sh
>
> Inside of this script I want to run these commands:  (This script basically
> clears my disk pools and then backs up the database )
>
> upd stg diskpool hi=0 lo=0
> upd stg sgipool hi=0 lo=0
> commit (this ensures that the two updates finish before the next command
> gets executed)
> upd stg diskpool hi=95 lo=65
> upd stg sgipool hi=95 lo=65
> backup db dev=8mmdev type=full vol=monday
>
> The problem that I'm having is when I define the administrative schedule
> which in the "Command" field says /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/scripts/test.sh I
> get a message saying that the command is invalid.
>
> >From what I understand, I can't run a macro as a scheduled command so I'm
> not sure how I can run the above listed operations without manually running
> them.
>
> If this is not possible then how are other people implementing automatic
> updates and backups of the database (without using DB backup triggers).  It
> seems that it would be very cumbersome to create an administrative command
> schedule for each of the above lines.
>
> Thanks Again
> Scott Temonia
> stemonia AT laitram DOT com