We take the drives off-line during maintenance.  We have restarted real and 
imagined libraries with no ill effects to TSM by simply taking the drives 
off-line.  Off-line drives should not affect an audit.

Andy Huebner


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Skylar Thompson
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Disabling automatic mount processes

Does disabling the library prevent library audits as well? Basically I'm
trying to keep stuff from getting mounted and interfering with the audit.

On 09/25/2010 02:34 PM, Richard Sims wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a way to temporarily keep TSM from starting
>> automated processes that involve library mounts? I'd like to be able to
>> keep migrations/reclamations/database backups/whatever from occurring
>> when trying to diagnose tape library problems.
>
> Depending upon the library, taking it offline will certainly prevent TSM 
> access.  Within TSM you can adjust thresholds and change Type Admin schedules 
> to Active=No for the duration, but there will be urgent needs such as 
> DBBackuptrigger which require some kind of attention.
>
>    Richard Sims

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