Hi Geoff,

Ray and Wanda are correct. (See their answers.)

As for the "Platform" changing... it has to do with the fact the scheduler
connects
as the "TDP" node and changes it to "WinNT" and then DP/Exchange connects
and
changes it to "TDP MSExchg". This is a known issue which is on the list to
resolve.


Thank you,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 05/14/2014
10:53:58 AM:

> From: Geoff Gill <avalnche96 AT yahoo DOT com>
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu,
> Date: 05/14/2014 10:56 AM
> Subject: Exchange backups
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>
>
>
>  Looking for some Exchange knowledge. Last week admin ID's for nodes
> were being removed and it was discovered 2 days later that this
> broke the Exchange backups. Once they were put back backups started
> working again but what confuses me is when comparing 2 different
> sites things seems to work differently as it relates to Exchange.
>
> I have no access to the client side, only the TSM server, so I can't
> relay anything except what I see here. At one site the nodes are set
> up just like any other node it looks like. Licensing shows 2
> Exchange TDP in use but when looking at q no the platform shows
> WinNt. These nodes do NOT have an associated admin ID that I can
> find and backups work just fine. Why things report the way they do I
> don't understand.
>
> The second site licensing shows 6 Exchange TDP in use and q no on
> these show the Platform as TDP MSExchg. These nodes are also
> configured with Proxynode Agents too whereas the first site is not.
> Why this I don't understand either. Since I don't know much about
> Exchange backups in general I would have assumed based on the first
> site this would be the normal way they would be set up.
>
> This second site is the one that Exchange backups stopped working
> when the Admin ID's were deleted. I put everything back and backups
> work now but when looking at the admin ID's it seems as though only
> one of them shows Days Since Last Access 1 so I don't know if
> removing the others would break this again or not. Support told me
> these Admin ID's need to be there for Exchange to work but this
> doesn't  seem to be the case at the site that works where are no
> admin ID's there are not associated with an Exchange node.
>
> Hopefully someone has some explanation for this.
>
> Thank You
> Geoff Gill
>
>