My First Ever Install of TSM Client 6.2.1 on Redhat Enterprise Linux (5.5 32Bit)

For the first time ever I was given the pleasure/task of installing TSM on a couple of the servers I'm responsible for. Our TSM chap had only ever installed the client on Windows so was no help to me whatsoever. I also found IBM's documentation quite poor - though their Redbooks are okay. Anyway, a few details for you. This is TSM Client 6.2.1 (32bit) running on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.5. The hardware platform is IBM x3650 with 64GB of RAM. NB: I'm going to use a script to backup TSM so I won't be setting up the scheduler. Here's how it went down..

Create a directory to house the TSM tarball and rpms. My directory of choice is /root/TSM

[root@myServer ~]# cd /root

[root@myServer ~]# mkdir TSM

[root@myServer ~]# cd TSM

Acquire your TSM installer/tarball/rpms and transfer to it/them to /root/TSM using the tool of your choice - be it ftp/sftp/scp/cp or whatever other means you have a your disposal. I used scp from our master TSM server.

[root@myServer ~]scp tsm@tsmserver:/tsm/6.2.1.0-TIV-TSMBAC-LinuxX86.tar

Untar the TSM client tarball

[root@myServer ~]tar -xf 6.2.1.0-TIV-TSMBAC-LinuxX86.tar

Lets have a look-see what files we have:

[root@myServer TSM]# ls -al

total 196612

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 12:29 .

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 12:29 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100536320 Dec 14 12:29 6.2.1.0-TIV-TSMBAC-LinuxX86.tar

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1086705 Dec 14 12:29 gskcrypt32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1255938 Dec 14 12:29 gskcrypt64-8.0.13.3.linux.x86_64.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7080355 Dec 14 12:29 gskssl32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7172566 Dec 14 12:29 gskssl64-8.0.13.3.linux.x86_64.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118183 Dec 14 12:29 NOTICES.TXT

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10528 Dec 14 12:29 README_api_enu.htm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10389 Dec 14 12:29 README_enu.htm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8530 Dec 14 12:29 README_hsm_enu.htm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2204226 Dec 14 12:29 TIVsm-API64.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8108314 Dec 14 12:29 TIVsm-API.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16616211 Dec 14 12:29 TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56849218 Dec 14 12:29 TIVsm-HSM.i386.rpm

[root@myServer TSM]#

Install the rpms. We need All of the 32bit rpms except for TIVsm-HSM.i386.rpm. We're going to use yum to do the install because, well, firstly because I like it and secondly it'll sort out your package dependencies for you.

[root@myServer TSM]# yum -y localinstall gskssl32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm gskcrypt32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm TIVsm-API.i386.rpm TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm --nogpgpcheck



Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security

Setting up Local Package Process

Examining gskssl32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm: gskssl32-8.0-13.3.i386

Marking gskssl32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm to be installed

Examining gskcrypt32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm: gskcrypt32-8.0-13.3.i386

Marking gskcrypt32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86.rpm to be installed

Examining TIVsm-API.i386.rpm: TIVsm-API-6.2.1-0.i586

Marking TIVsm-API.i386.rpm to be installed

Examining TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm: TIVsm-BA-6.2.1-0.i586

Marking TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm to be installed

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package TIVsm-API.i586 0:6.2.1-0 set to be updated

---> Package TIVsm-BA.i586 0:6.2.1-0 set to be updated

---> Package gskcrypt32.i386 0:8.0-13.3 set to be updated

---> Package gskssl32.i386 0:8.0-13.3 set to be updated

--> Finished Dependency Resolution



Dependencies Resolved



================================================================================

Package Arch Version Repository Size

================================================================================

Installing:

TIVsm-API i586 6.2.1-0 /TIVsm-API.i386 23 M

TIVsm-BA i586 6.2.1-0 /TIVsm-BA.i386 34 M

gskcrypt32 i386 8.0-13.3 /gskcrypt32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86 2.6 M

gskssl32 i386 8.0-13.3 /gskssl32-8.0.13.3.linux.x86 19 M



Transaction Summary

================================================================================

Install 4 Package(s)

Upgrade 0 Package(s)



Total size: 79 M

Downloading Packages:

Running rpm_check_debug

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Test Succeeded

Running Transaction



Installing : gskcrypt32 [########################################## ] 1/4

Installing : gskssl32 [############################################ ] 2/4

Installing : TIVsm-API [########################################### ] 3/4

Postinstall of the API



TSM Linux API installation complete.



Be sure to set up the configuration files!



Installing : TIVsm-BA [############################################ ] 4/4

Postinstall of the Backup Archive client



TSM Linux client installation complete.



Be sure to set up the system configuration file

before starting the client!



Installed:

TIVsm-API.i586 0:6.2.1-0

TIVsm-BA.i586 0:6.2.1-0

gskcrypt32.i386 0:8.0-13.3

gskssl32.i386 0:8.0-13.3



Complete!

Now I'll do a very basic configuration of TSM - please not I will not be setting up the scheduler!

[root@myServer TSM]# cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/

[root@myServer bin]# ls -al dsm.*.smp

-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 782 Apr 28 2010 dsm.opt.smp

-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 971 Apr 28 2010 dsm.sys.smp

[root@myServer bin]# cp dsm.opt.smp dsm.opt

[root@myServer bin]# cp dsm.sys.smp dsm.sys

Edit your dsm.sys file and make it look like the text below - note that I'm using the default port (1500), my TSM Server is 172.24.1.10 - It doesn't have a DNS entry yet.. - and my TSM Node is called myServer. Change these to suit your environment.

SErvername TSM_A

COMMMethod TCPip

TCPPort 1500

TCPServeraddress 172.24.1.10

Passwordaccess generate

TCPNodelay YES

TCPBuffsize 32

TCPWindowsize 64

TXNByteLimit 25600

Nodename myServer *bogus server name

InclExcl /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/inclexcl.list


Edit your dsm.opt file and make it look like the text below. My server has only local disk to I've set
Domain to ALL-LOCAL.

SErvername TSM_A

Domain ALL-LOCAL

Subdir YES

Create the include/exclude file (this is completely empty at the moment. Edit this file according to your needs).

[root@myServer bin]# touch inclexcl.list

Connect to the TSM Server for the first time. When Prompted for your "user id" (which should be the same as your NodeName as defined in dsm.sys). Enter your password whenprompted and you should be the proud recipient of a tsm> prompt

[root@myServer bin]# dsmc

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface

Client Version 6, Release 2, Level 1.0

Client date/time: 14/12/10 12:56:43

(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: MYSERVER

Please enter your user id :

Please enter password for user id "MYSERVER": ********

Session established with server TSM_A: Windows

Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 1.1

Server date/time: 14/12/10 12:56:31 Last access: 14/12/10 12:56:31



tsm>

Run your first backup. You don't have to do this but as you've installed the backup client you may as well. It's worth checking with your TSM admin people if it's 'safe' to perform a backup right now.

tsm> backup



Incremental backup of volume '/'

Incremental backup of volume '/oracle'

Incremental backup of volume '/boot'

ANS1898I ***** Processed 2,000 files *****

Directory--> 1,024 /boot/ [Sent]

Normal File--> 163 /boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.hmac [Sent]

Normal File--> 158 /boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5.hmac [Sent]

Normal File--> 1,243,713 /boot/System.map-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 [Sent]

Normal File--> 1,242,340 /boot/System.map-2.6.18-194.el5 [Sent]

..

..

..

..

..

Normal File--> 185 /var/yp/nicknames [Sent]

Successful incremental backup of '/'

Directory--> 4,096 /oracle/ [Sent]

Directory--> 16,384 /oracle/lost+found [Sent]

Successful incremental backup of '/oracle'

Total number of objects inspected: 102,143

Total number of objects backed up: 102,125

Total number of objects updated: 0

Total number of objects rebound: 0

Total number of objects deleted: 0

Total number of objects expired: 0

Total number of objects failed: 0

Total number of bytes inspected: 5.16 GB

Total number of bytes transferred: 5.14 GB

Data transfer time: 117.98 sec

Network data transfer rate: 45,749.23 KB/sec

Aggregate data transfer rate: 21,568.04 KB/sec

Objects compressed by: 0%

Total data reduction ratio: 0.31%

Elapsed processing time: 00:04:10

tsm>

When you're finished type 'quit' at the tsm prompt to exit out of the TSM client.

I hope you found this useful.