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Device configuration on the Storage Agent
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Setting up Storage Agent service using the command line Example 16-16 shows how to define a Storage Agent service using the command line. It is based on the assumption that you defined your Storage Agent using the syntax in Example 16-13 on page 546, since the same service name is needed here. Note that you must also provide your Windows administrator account and password. Example 16-16 Storage Agent service installation using the command line C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\storageagent>install "TSM StorageAgent1" "C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\storageagent\dstasvc.exe" Administrator Password Service installed 16.3.4 Device configuration on the Storage Agent Now we proceed to the device configuration part of the overall LAN-free configuration. The Storage Agent, in order to be able to use drives in the shared library, must have defined paths to these drives on the server. We recommend that you define paths to all available drives, even if you only want the Storage Agent to use some of them. In this case, limit the number of available mount points in the device class using the MOUNTLIMIT parameter, rather than defining a subset of the paths. Thus, you increase the chance that the Storage Agent can get a mount point if needed. To configure the devices, you need to identify which drives are seen by the Storage Agent system. The tsmdlst utility in the Storage Agent installation directory provides this function. Using tsmdlst, you can easily display information for devices attached to your Storage Agent. Apart from the device name, it displays SCSI ID, LUN, bus, port, and device identifier information, which typically includes microcode level information. In SAN environments, tsmdlst lists any HBAs along with any corresponding device driver information. For SAN devices, the serial number (SSN) and World Wide Name (WWN) are also displayed if they can be detected. Example 16-17 shows the output of the tsmdlst command on our DIOMEDE Storage Agent. We trimmed the description field of the command output to fit the example in the page without wrapping. Example 16-17 Device listing as seen by the Windows machine using tsmdlst utility C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\storageagent>tsmdlst /detail Tivoli Storage Manager -- Device List Utility 548 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide
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