Nice little challenge this one.

I would build something that when they place a trigger-file somewhere that
executes a fixed macro that they can’t modify or read on another system.
The macro runs a clientaction within spectrum protect that starts the
backup.

So they only place the file somewhere, that location in looked at by a
script every minute and as soon as the file is found it removes it and
starts a client action.

They don’t get the access you don’t want to give them but it is still an
action you can monitor.

Regards,
   Stefan

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 00:24, Harris, Steven <
steven.harris AT btfinancialgroup DOT com> wrote:

> Hello again.
>
> TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX,  TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64
>
> I have an application that needs to co-ordinate the taking of their TSM
> for VE backups with their housekeeping.  It's a large distributed postgres
> database and they want to shut down the database on all members of the
> cluster and trigger a snapshot backup across them all once a week to get a
> consistent restore point.
>
> vSphere web client is not an option, and neither is running a dsmc command
> on the vbs. Neither do we want to give them access to run a clientaction on
> the TSM Server.
>
> Is there any known way to trigger a TSM for VE backup on demand? I'm
> thinking that VMware  PowerCLI could be the mechanism here, but would be
> pleased to hear of any other.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Harris
> TSM Admin/Consultant
> Canberra Australia
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