Hi,

Does anyone out there recognise this?

My AIX server ( ADSM V3.1.0.2 IX74458) who does a backup of a client (AIX)
incidentally hangs around doing nothing.  Only ADSM is running on this
RS6K.
It seems that the client is ( almost) ready, the Servers's SESSION GUI
indicates that 2.4 GB has been backed up an it is in a RUN state. Then when
I look again after 10 minutes at the server I see that it was already doing
nothing for > 20 hours. But canceling the session with the client fails. I
am told ( in the activity log)  me that the process is being canceled but
that's all. Repeating the cancel tells again that the process is canceled.
Forever.
There's no indication in the activity file of any difficulties.

Stopping/restarting ADSM is required and enough to get the other clients
backed up normally. At the time of the cancelation I see the (correct)
TCP/IP connection failure in the clients logfile and also that there was
for 20 hours no activity:
.......
......
/m/ustation.h  Sent
06/06/1998 02:42:20 Normal File-->           3,081
/usr/local/src/emacs-20.2/src
/m/vax.h  Sent
06/06/1998 02:42:20 Normal File-->           4,401
/usr/local/src/emacs-20.2/src
/m/wicat.h  Sent
06/06/1998 23:00:29 ANS4017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
(then I stopped ADSM)
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Total number of objects inspected:   62,663
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Total number of objects backed up:   62,160
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Total number of objects updated:          0
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Total number of objects rebound:          0
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Total number of objects deleted:          0
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Total number of objects failed:           0
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Total number of bytes transferred:           2.4 GB
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Average file size:                     40.5 KB
06/06/1998 23:00:29 Elapsed processing time:            23:33:15


About 2 months ago there was a similar problem on an OS/2 client.

How can I find details about what  is going on ( on the server or client)
in such situations?