I havent had to reboot on 2003 servers, and we script the entire
install/uninstall process.  You may want to try stopping the services
before attempting to remove them.
 dsmcutil STOP /name:"TSM Scheduler"
 dsmcutil REMove /name:"TSM Scheduler"
Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer, WNI
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
423-752-6574 (desk)
423-785-7347 (cell)


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
egonle AT NETSCAPE DOT NET
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 5:38 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Remove Windows TSM Services requries reboot (W2K3, TSM
5.3.2/3.x)

Hi,

for installation and deinstallation of TSM services (scheduler, agent,
acceptor) during update procedures I'm using two batch files:
tsminstall.bat:
dsmcutil install Scheduler   /name:"TSM Scheduler" /AutoStart:Yes
/NODE:%COMPUTERNAME% /PASSWORD:xxxx
dsmcutil install CAD         /name:"TSM Client Acceptor"
/AutoStart:Yes /NODE:%COMPUTERNAME% /PASSWORD:xxxx dsmcutil install
Remoteagent /name:"TSM Client Agent"
  /NODE:%COMPUTERNAME% /PASSWORD:xxxx /partnername:"TSM Client Acceptor"


tsmremove.bat:
dsmcutil REMove /name:"TSM Scheduler"
dsmcutil REMove /name:"TSM Client Acceptor"
dsmcutil REMove /name:"TSM Client Agent"

After installation of TSM I run tsminstall.bat. The problem I have is
updating TSM Clients. For updates I run tsmremove.bat, run setup.exe and
after that tsminstall.bat so that those services are back online again.
Unfortunately on my Windows 2003 boxes the TSM Scheduler services is not
removed online it is only disabled and I have to reboot the box. The
service is only marked for deletion (Client version
5.3.2.2 or 5.3.4.0 or 5.3.0.14).

On my windows 2000 boxes I did not yet get such a behaviour. Is that a
bug in compiled dsmcutil or developer tools. Using operating system sc
utility I couldn't yet remove TSM Scheduler service but TSM Client
Acceptor can be remove "online".


Best Regards,

..--Egon
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