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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Schedule

Authorized User

The schedule command starts the client scheduler on your workstation. The client scheduler must be running before scheduled work can start.

If the schedmode option is set to polling, when you start the client scheduler it continuously contacts the server for scheduled events based on the time you specified with the queryschedperiod option in your client user options file dsm.opt. If your administrator sets the queryschedperiod option for all nodes, that setting overrides your setting.

If you are using TCP/IP communications, the server can prompt your workstation when it is time to run a scheduled event. To do so, set the schedmode option to prompted in the client user options file dsm.opt or on the schedule command.

Note:
Tivoli Storage Manager does not support the client scheduler running in prompted mode across a firewall. Use the client scheduler in polling mode across a firewall.

 After you start the client scheduler, it continues to run and to start scheduled events until you press Ctrl+C, stop the scheduler process with the UNIX kill command, start the workstation again, or turn off the workstation to end it. 

Note:
You cannot enter this command in interactive mode.

Supported Clients

This command is valid for all UNIX clients.

Syntax

>>-SCHedule--+----------+--------------------------------------><
             '- options-'
 
 

Parameters

options
You can use these common options: maxcmdretries, password, queryschedperiod, retryperiod, schedlogname, schedmode, and tcpclientport. See Chapter 9, Setting Processing Options for more information.

Examples

Task
For AIX, AIX 5L: Start the scheduler at system bootup time by entering this command in the /etc/inittab file. Ensure the passwordaccess option is set to generate.

Command: tsm::once:/usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 #TSM Scheduler

Task
Interactively start the scheduler and keep it running in the background.

Command: nohup dsmc sched 2> /dev/null &

When you run the schedule command, all messages regarding scheduled work are sent to a file called dsmsched.log or to an alternate file you specify with the schedlogname option in your client user options file dsm.opt. If you do not specify a directory path with the file name in the schedlogname option, the dsmsched.log file will reside in the default installation directory.


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