Hi Jeff

All SCSI Libraries are basically the same.  I've just been through a ton
of pain during a two site TS3500 upgrade (TSM 5.5.6 under AIX).  My
advice is shut down the TSM server, make your changes and bring it back
up.  The library layout that TSM internalizes will be rebuilt by the
restart to match the new reality.  The restart also does an audit for you.

I wish there was an easy way to close and reopen the library without a
shutdown.  I've seen the AUDIT extensions in V6 and can't wait to get there.

Regards

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Canberra Australia



On 20/08/2013 9:47 AM, Grant Street wrote:

In a perfect world you would restart the whole server and library JIC
... but ...

The TS3310 is normally configured to use physical partitions ie the OS
and Software only see the slots in the partitions not the cleaning slot
so effectively the library looses a slot from TSM's POV. This would mean
that the library geometry would change.

Provided no other changes were made eg control path, cabling, os
configuration. There shouldn't be any changes in the tape drive ordering.

Deleting the partition and recreating it will make the library go
"Offline" for a period so I would offline the TSM library path while
this was done.

Are you using the IBM tape and library drivers? What OS are you using?

After the change you should be able to use the OS tools to get
information about library slots and check that it is correct.

One that is working set the TSM library path online

Run an audit library.

run show slots and show library in TSM to confirm that the new changes
have been picked up.

I haven't tried this so YMMV

Grant




On 20/08/13 05:25, Geoff Gill wrote:

Hello,

I posted a question which didn't really get any response so I'd like
to reword this to see if anyone has a comment.

This is a TS3310 Tape library. Whoever defined everything initially
removed the default cleaning slot and there is no way to insert a
cleaning tape because there are no cleaning slots defined. There are
empty slots available so here is the question. If I go to modify the
logical library and bring the "Configure Storage Slots" number down
by 1 slot to free up an empty slot, does anyone know if there is a
reboot of the library or library audit or any issues I need to worry
about?

Thank You
Geoff Gill