I have a strange problem with Tivoli Integrated Portal Health Monitor showing unknown.
Very quick background, I deleted a very large filespace (about 6tb) since it was being retired and TSM spent about 15-20 hours removing the filespace and then another 2 days or so doing space reclamation. During this time I just happened to check the health monitor and it showed a status of unknown and quite a few sessions running on the server and I verified that backups were still going each day by checking logs on different servers. I didn't think much about this at the time because it was busy doing the space reclamation. Now that everything is done and all the space has been removed however it is still showing unknown.
I also moved 4 volumes from the same storage pool back into the same storage pool (which I am guessing was a bad move from what I read after the fact on versioning) for the purpose of trying to reclaim space. This was before deleting the filespace and I am not 100% sure, but I believe the health monitor was still working at this time. This was done using the move data command. This is also before I remembered it will reclaim space by itself since my knowledge of TSM is a bit rusty and TSM was managed for years by someone who is no longer employed here so I am having to get back into it. Again though this was all to reclaim space since it was running out but assuming it did delete old versions there was not much data contained on those volumes anymore and they were really old.
Reading the forums I did see the suggestion to check the ADMIN_CENTER user and make sure it was not locked and just for good measure I did reset, reconfigure it and resync the password.
I am not really sure where to look from here. The one thing I have noticed though is that ADMIN_CENTER is opening sessions and never logging off, so the longer the server is up, the more sessions build up, right now there are 29 ADMIN_CENTER sessions just sitting there if you do a q session. Also looking through the activity log I do see the ADMIN_CENTER issuing the command looking at events to pull the schedule information.
One last thing even though it isn't showing anything in the health monitor, it does seem to still be running the schedule and backing up fine and the average of 400-500gb of data being sent to it each day does not seem to be slowing down or failing to backup. Our contract employee has unfortunately allowed the Tivoli support to lapse as I found out trying to call IBM, so while we are going to renew it they will not correct these problems and before we go to an hour by hour rate with IBM I figured I'd see if anyone might have a better knowledge of TSM than I do.
Thanks for any help anyone might be able to provide.
Very quick background, I deleted a very large filespace (about 6tb) since it was being retired and TSM spent about 15-20 hours removing the filespace and then another 2 days or so doing space reclamation. During this time I just happened to check the health monitor and it showed a status of unknown and quite a few sessions running on the server and I verified that backups were still going each day by checking logs on different servers. I didn't think much about this at the time because it was busy doing the space reclamation. Now that everything is done and all the space has been removed however it is still showing unknown.
I also moved 4 volumes from the same storage pool back into the same storage pool (which I am guessing was a bad move from what I read after the fact on versioning) for the purpose of trying to reclaim space. This was before deleting the filespace and I am not 100% sure, but I believe the health monitor was still working at this time. This was done using the move data command. This is also before I remembered it will reclaim space by itself since my knowledge of TSM is a bit rusty and TSM was managed for years by someone who is no longer employed here so I am having to get back into it. Again though this was all to reclaim space since it was running out but assuming it did delete old versions there was not much data contained on those volumes anymore and they were really old.
Reading the forums I did see the suggestion to check the ADMIN_CENTER user and make sure it was not locked and just for good measure I did reset, reconfigure it and resync the password.
I am not really sure where to look from here. The one thing I have noticed though is that ADMIN_CENTER is opening sessions and never logging off, so the longer the server is up, the more sessions build up, right now there are 29 ADMIN_CENTER sessions just sitting there if you do a q session. Also looking through the activity log I do see the ADMIN_CENTER issuing the command looking at events to pull the schedule information.
One last thing even though it isn't showing anything in the health monitor, it does seem to still be running the schedule and backing up fine and the average of 400-500gb of data being sent to it each day does not seem to be slowing down or failing to backup. Our contract employee has unfortunately allowed the Tivoli support to lapse as I found out trying to call IBM, so while we are going to renew it they will not correct these problems and before we go to an hour by hour rate with IBM I figured I'd see if anyone might have a better knowledge of TSM than I do.
Thanks for any help anyone might be able to provide.