Andy,
good point: I'm on win98 with very recent updates (on autopilot with
microsoft...). I had started the install and at the end was put into
the wizard. I added 7 or 8 lines (the original was blank) and continued
on to the finish.
Steffan
Andy Raibeck wrote:
>
> Hello Steffan,
>
> I just tried using the wizard to create dsm.opt, and it
> worked fine for me. I also used it to edit an existing
> dsm.opt file, and that worked, too.
>
> Please provide step-by-step detail on exactly how I can
> recreate your situation, and I will look into this. If
> you were modifying an existing dsm.opt file, it would be
> useful to have a copy of the dsm.opt file before you
> edited it.
>
> Some other questions:
>
> 1) Which operating system and service pack are you running?
>
> 2) If the OS is NT, were you logged in as an admin or
> non-admin user?
>
> 3) Is this the 3.7.0.0 or 3.7.1.0 client (you should be
> using 3.7.1.0)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Storage Systems Division
> ADSM Client Development
> e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
> "The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked."
>
> Andy,
>
> I tried that install for the first time last night and was at first
> pleased that the process was pretty much SOP but the finish left me
> dissapointed.
>
> I put in a number of entries via the wizard but then the process was
> finished & the TSM GUI was launched I got an error on the dsm.opt file.
> I went looking and found a blank dsm.opt: none of my entries were saved.
>
> IBM/Tivoli QA has somehow missed another significant glitch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steffan
>
> Andy Raibeck wrote:
> >
> > Hi Julie,
> >
> > One of the new features of the Win32 client is a configuration
> > wizard which provides a GUI interface for creating the dsm.opt
> > file. When you start the backup GUI, it looks for dsm.opt. If
> > dsm.opt is not present, then the configuration wizard will
> > automatically start.
> >
> > This is intended to help users, especially first-time users,
> > get up and running as soon as possible without having to know
> > the details of how to create or edit the text-based dsm.opt
> > file.
> >
> > If you want to install an existing dsm.opt file (like in the
> > case where you have pre-configured dsm.opt files to be
> > distributed en masse), copy the dsm.opt file to the
> > tsmcli\win32\<platform>\config directory, then run setup.exe.
> > If setup detects the dsm.opt file in the ..\config directory,
> > then it will copy it to ..\baclient. Then when you run the
> > GUI, since dsm.opt exists, the configuration wizard will not
> > run.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > Andy Raibeck
> > IBM Storage Systems Division
> > ADSM Client Development
> > e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
> > "The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked."
> >
> > We are installing the Tivoli Storage Manager WIN32 client and when we
> click
> > on Backup Client Options, there is nothing there. According to the doc
> on
> > the internet, a file called BA_DSM.OPT is supposed to be copied to either
> > DSM.OPT if there isn't one, or DSM.NEW if DSM.OPT already exists.
> > But after what appears to be a successful install, we have no BA_DSM.OPT,
> > no DSM.OPT or DSM.NEW.
> > We do however, have a directory called CONFIG with DSM.SMP in it.
> > I don't want to have to copy that file over as part of every regular
> > install, and shouldn't have to, according to the doc I saw.
> > Has anyone else run into this?
> > Thanks,
> > Julie
>
> --
> Steffan Rhoads
> Senior Technical Consultant
> MCBA, Inc.
> 10 Holland
> Irvine, California 92618-2504
> srhoads AT mcba DOT com
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Steffan Rhoads
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