IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Storage Agent for Linux

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Service Level
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This is an RPM installable Interim Fix that will install as
level 5.1.9-2 for the packages listed on section 4 below.

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* Installation Notes for Linux 
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1) Install Instructions
2a) Supported Linux Environments 
2b) Supported kernel levels by ITSM SCSI Device Drivers  
3) Notice for SLES7/ITSM SCSI device drivers users
4) RPM packages included 
5) Features not supported on this release

1) Install Instructions:
------------------------

Use the commands bunzip2 and tar to extract the rpm packages. For example:
bunzip2 TIVsm-stagent-5.1.9-2.Linux.tar.bz2
mkdir tsm
cd tsm
tar xvf ../TIVsm-stagent-5.1.9-2.Linux.tar

Execute the rpm command as follows:

rpm -Uvh [ --prefix prefix] <pkgname>
  
where prefix is optional, and it denotes the file system where you would like 
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to be installed, and <pkgname> denotes one of the packages listed on
session 4 below.  If no prefix is given, the default install path is /opt.
 
2) Supported Linux Environments
-------------------------------

   IA32 Architecture:
   ------------------

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Update 3 or earlier (AS, WS, ES)
   SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 
   Red Hat Linux 7.2

   NOTE: For a list of supported kernel levels for the Tivoli Storage Manager
         Device Drivers, see the Linux support web page at 
         http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21111628.

2b) Supported kernel levels by ITSM SCSI Device Drivers:

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | OS Level/architecture     | Kernel Levels
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | RHEL 2.1/x86              | 2.4.9-e.27, 2.4.9-e.27smp, 2.4.9-e.27enterprise,
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | RHEL 2.1 Update3/x86      | 2.4.9-e.38, 2.4.9-e.38smp, 2.4.9-e.38enterprise
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | Red Hat Linux 7.2/x86     | 2.4.9-31(up), 2.4.9-31smp 
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | SLES7/x86                 | 2.4.18-269(smp), 2.4.18-269(up) *
   |                           | 2.4.18-281(smp), 2.4.18-281(up)
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   *up (for uni-processor), smp(for multii-processor systems)

3) Notice for SLES7 users
   ----------------------

   Two kernel levels are supported on SLES7. If ITSM Device Driver is used
   on SLES7, and there is more than one kernel installed on the SLES7 system,
   tsmscsi script will prompt users to enter the kernel level for which the ITSM device
   driver will be used. Ensure that the kernel running on the system is the one
   entered at the prompt; otherwise the device driver will be loaded but will fail 
   to manage the storage devices. The command uname -r will not idendify the specific kernel level
   that the system is running. Thus, users will have to identify the running kernel level in 
   a different way.
   

4) RPM Packages included:
-------------------------

   IA32
   ----
   TIVsm-stagent-5.1.9-2.i386.rpm ...............TSM Storage Agent 
   TIVsm-tsmscsi-5.1.9-2.i386.rpm ..............TSM SCSI Device Drivers for non-IBM devices


5) Features not supported on this release
   --------------------------------------
   - DRM
   - Generic Tape
   - Shared Memory Communications Protocol
   - External libraries support 
