Re: [ADSM-L] ANS2050E message

Rick,

In such a case, it will be necessary to initialize the password
manually, using command line interface : you will be prompted to enter
the new password at first attempt to connect to TSM server. (You may
first have to set a new password on TSM server for this node, as the
existing one has been machine-generated and there's no way to read it).

However this is only a temporary workaround, and you'll face the very
same problem next time a new password will be generated.

To my knowledge, the only way to keep the passwords syncronized in such
an environment would be to use the TSM scheduler service ...
  
HTH, just my 2 cents  !

Arnaud 

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Rick Harderwijk
Sent: Monday, 27 August, 2007 09:46
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: ANS2050E message

Hi,

I just started at a new company and for the moment they are still
running TSM. One of the clients on Windows 2000 Server SP4 (5.3.4.0) did
not backup last night; the message I got in the errorlog was '08/27/2007
08:04:53 ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt
because the process is running in the background.'.

I checked the dsm.opt and confirmed that the option PASSWORDACCESS
GENERATE is set. I suspect that the problem stems from the fact that the
backup is started through a batchfile using the Windows Task Scheduler
instead of through the TSM Scheduler service (which is not installed)
for some reason not yet known to me. Am I correct in my observation and
is there any workaround - as this problem will most likely come back as
soon as the password expires again.

Cheers,

Rick Harderwijk