Larry,
You may want to give Open Microsystems a try. They have a few products that
work closely with Stk and IBM. Their URL is www.openmic.com.

Dan Giles
Application Specialist
Manulife Financial, Corporate
Phone: 416-926-3549 Fax: 416-926-5234





From: Larry Chisesi <lchisesi AT COCOMP DOT COM> on 10/20/98 02:38 PM GMT

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Subject:  Re: STK ACSLS and ADSM




Dan:  Thanks for the reply.  It appears that there is no ACSLS support for
HP,
only IBM and Sun are supported.    So, our HP server wouldn't be able to
issue
an ACSLS request.

Larry Chisesi


Dan Giles wrote:

> Larry.
>
> We are (or, at least, will be) doing something quite similar. There seems
> to be some confusion with your sources as to what ACSLS takes care of and
> what ADSM takes care of. With ACSLS, mount and other library commands are
> simply routed to a central machine. The internal library inventory is
kept
> track of by this central ACSLS database.
>
> However, you will indeed need separate adsm servers for your database
> application and "normal" clients. If you are talking about 2 different
> databases on your two HP boxes, then you are indeed talking about 3
> separate licenses.
>
> As for management, 3.1.2 appears to take a big step in centralizing
> monitoring and control, though the server databases remain separate.
>
> I hope this answers your questions.
>
> Dan Giles
> Application Specialist
> Manulife Financial, Corporate
> Phone: 416-926-3549 Fax: 416-926-5234
>
> From: Larry Chisesi <lchisesi AT COCOMP DOT COM> on 10/19/98 04:50 PM GMT
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: ADSM)
> Subject:  STK ACSLS and ADSM
>
> We are looking to share an STK 9710 SCSI library with 10 DLT 7000
> drives. We understand that the ACSLS product from STK enables this.  We
> will have   a dedicated ADSM server taking 3-4 of the drives for backing
> up clients via a 100 Mb network.  We want to directly attach 2 large HP
> servers that have Oracle databases > 200 GB to the STK library so that
> we are not backing them up over the net, going directly to the tape
> drives in the 9710 instead.
>
>   I have heard from an IBM rep that we need to have ADSM server licenses
> on these two HP servers, in addition to the ADSM server license for our
> dedicated backup server,  and that these Oracle servers have their own
> ADSM databases, manage their own media, etc.   Someone else told me that
> the library is managed by the dedicated ADSM server via ACSLS and the
> Oracle servers merely output to the tape drives in the library.
>
> We are trying to create an environment that is easy to administer (who
> isn't!) and works as simply as possible.   Does anyone have experience
> with ACSLS in the Unix environment?  We will have either an AIX box or
> Solaris system be the dedicated ADSM server.  Can you point me to any
> IBM documentation that lays this out, along with licensing requirements?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Larry Chisesi
> CoComp Technical Services