For a review of the results of the steps that you have just completed, see Figure 8 on page 27.

 

Disk Devices

 

Define paths on the server using the device names as seen by the storage agent on

 

each client system. For example, on the server side, the directory,

 

d:\tsmdata\server1, is exported on the NFS server running on the Tivoli Storage

 

Manager Server machine.

On the storage agent, the directory is NFS mounted as /tsmdata/server1. A path

needs to be created for each file drive in the library. The following is the command

 

issued to create the path for this scenario. In this example, disklib1 represents the

 

destination file drive in the disk library with a name of disklib.

 

define path storagnt disklib1 srctype=server desttype=drive library=disklib

 

device=file directory="/tsmdata/server1/fs1,/tsmdata/server1/fs2"

 

It is recommended that each directory correspond to a file system on a separate

 

physical drive. The server cannot validate PATH information that is provided on

 

the server for use by the storage agent. Failures can occur if incorrect device

 

information is provided in the DEFINE PATH command.

 

Note that if you specified multiple directories for the device class associated with

 

the FILE library, you must specify the same number of directories for each path to

 

the FILE library. To keep the device class and path synchronized, do not change or

 

move existing directories on the server that the storage agent is using. Adding

 

directories is permitted. Specifying a mismatched number of directories can cause a

 

run-time failure. See the ″Defining Device Classes″ chapter in the Administrator’s

 

Guide for more information.

 

For command information, see the Administrator’s Reference.

Step 4. (z/OS only) Formatting Volumes for LAN-free Data Movement

When using the z/OS data manager server, volumes for sequential access storage

pools that support LAN-free data movement require formatting before they can be

used. LAN-free sessions will fail if the storage pool does not contain any formatted

volumes and does not allow automatic formatting. For information about how to

format volumes, refer to the Administrator’s Guide.

Step 5. Starting the Storage Agent and Verifying the LAN-free Configuration

In this final step, you start the storage agent and verify the LAN-free configuration.

Step 5.1 Start the Storage Agent

After verifying that the server is online and running, start the storage agent by changing to the storage agent directory and issuing the following command:

dsmsta

When the storage agent starts, it contacts all available shared libraries, including those libraries that do not have a path defined. As a result, a delay may occur during startup processing. The storage agent also determines if the Tivoli Storage

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SC32-0129-00 specifications

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