Richard Rhodes wrote:

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/22/2008
12:36:11 PM:

3) We put the clients name into a tracking file with the decommission
date, so we don't forget when 90 days is up.

We rename the node with a prefix so decommissioned nodes are easy to spot
in a "q node" listing.  We would rename nodeX to zzrt_nodeX.

We also put a comment in the CONTACT node field with the date the
node can be deleted from TSM, and the ticket number of the request
that asked us to retire the node.

Once a month someone goes through the TSM servers looking at the
retired nodes and deletes appropriate ones.

We do something similar with filespaces. We often are migrating to new
storage and have both new and old filesystems setup and backed up. When
we decommission the old storage, we'll append _old to the filespace. We
then have blanket tolerances in our monitoring system for anything that
ends in _old, so we don't get alerts when it's no longer being backed up.

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