That's interesting, Lars.  I'd never thought of doing that.
So what benefit might we get by using AIX's System Resource Controller
(that's what SRC means, right?) to start the TSM scheduler?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Lars Bebensee
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:11 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: aix client installation
>
>
> On 06.12.2002 11:20:57 "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote:
>
> > dear all!
> >
> > I just intalled 2 aix clients as described in the readme file
> > (aix 4.3, tsm client 4.2.2.1)
> > all worked fine, but I am not sure, how to start the scheduler correct.
> >
> > I inserted the following lines to /etc/inittab
> >
> > tsm::once:/usr/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1
> > tsmws::once:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > on an other older aix machine (aix 4.3, tsm 4.1.2) the inittab is
> different:
> >
> > tsm:2:once:startsrc -s dsmc >/dev/console 2>&1 #Start TSM Client
> Scheduler
> > tsmws:2:once:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.adsmws >/dev/console 2>&1
> #Start
> > Webshell
> >
> > why can't I use startsrc on the 1st machine?
>
> Hi there,
>
> as far as I know there's no src functionality for the tsm client available
> per default. So unless someone seriously got  srcmstr convinced, it would
> not start the dsmc in scheduling mode. You will have to start the client
> side scheduler with "dsmc sched" like in the first example.
> However it should be possible to add a subsystem to the system resource
> controller with something like:
> $ mkssys -s dsmc -p /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc -u0 -R -S -n15 -f3
> -a " sched"
> Hereafter it should be possible to start and stop the scheduler via the
> startsrc and stopsrc commands. I would actually not name the
> subsystem dsmc
> but something like dsmsched to avoid confusion with invoking the dsmc
> command line client.
>
> Cya Lars
>