Hi Tom,

This APAR looks to be applicable to your scenario.
The fix, per the link below, is slated for 642 and 711.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC98136

With the fix, once you specifically have VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS NO
in the options file, the template is not processed and
not counted as inspected or failed.

Regards,
Omar

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 08/27/2014
11:07:29 AM:

> From: Tom Alverson <tom.alverson AT GMAIL DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU,
> Date: 08/27/2014 11:17 AM
> Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE failures on templates
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> I am getting failures with TSM for VE 7.1.0.0 where it is trying to back
up
> templates even though I have them disabled in the OPT file:
>
> VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS NO
>
> I get errors like this:
>
> 08/26/2014 19:13:56 ANS2045E The VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS option is not
> specified. The virtual machine template 'W2K8_EE_R2' can not be backed
up.
>
> 08/26/2014 19:13:57 ANS1228E Sending of object 'W2K8_EE_R2' failed.
>
> 08/26/2014 19:13:57 ANS5226E The virtual machine backup operation failed.
>
>
> Do I also need to exclude each VM name that is a template from the OPT
> file?  Right now I am just using this:
>
>
> DOMAIN.VMFULL -VM=*VSE*
>