Kristina,

What version of the ADSM server are you running?  We were informed by IBM that
you could not set AIX clients to prompted mode with the 3.1.1.5 version of the
AIX server code.  Apparently, this is a bug and the only way around it is to
upgrade to the latest version!

adam

Kristina Ahlstrvm wrote:

> I have a problem with  options in ADSM on AIX. There's an option that
> decides if the clients are to use
>  polling or promted mode whith the ADSM scheduler (SCHEDMODE).
>
> Default mode is polling, and if you set schedmode on the AIX client (in the
> dsm.sys file) to promted and has the same
> mode on the server the scheduler function stops working on AIX. This
> function works just fine with Windows NT cilents though.
> The problem I have on AIX clients is that when the server and the client
> both are set to schedmode promted - the client doesn't recieve a schedule
> from the ADSM server, and the adsm_sched.log tells that the ADSM server
> does not support polling.
> According to the ADSM documentetation both of these options should be
> possible to apply on any of my platforms;
> eg both NT AS/400 and AIX.
>
> At the moment the only way to get the scheduler to work on the AIX clients
> is to let them have polling schedmode.
> So I had to set the options on the server to any so that the NT clients
> could continue with promtede mode.
>
> The question is : Has anyone seen this before and could give me a hint??
> My qustomer's wish is that all clients should run in promted mode so
> the server has full control over the ADSM clients
>
> Thanks
>
> Hdlsningar/Regards
> Kristina Ahlstrvm
> Systemteknik/Systems Engineer
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