The Systems Engineer

I did not see this one coming. I do see some reasons for it and some benefits, just didn’t expect to see it.

McAfee makes some really nice products for the enterprise. ePolicy Orchestrator is something I really like, use daily, and have used for almost ten years. McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise 7.0+ has been leaps and bounds better than 4.5. 8.7i is wonderful. Some of the features I use are custom file access denial rules to block read and write to PST files. This allowed for PST to be completely eradicated in my shop and for us to meet our email policies. ePolicy’s rogue system detection is another amazing piece.

I suppose processor based anti malware could be interesting. Time will tell. You have my attention Intel. McAfee already has my business.

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I’m sitting here doing some work on VMware view listening to Historical Apollo 16 Audio recordings. These guys communicate quite well. It’s amazing how professional and well these guys communicate.

John Watts Young (johnny) and Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (charlie) have been working on the surface of the moon for the last hour. Drilling holes, fixing air hoses, taking pictures, etc. The culture of my world is different from these guys. I’ll make a conscisous effort to be more like these guys in the future. Even Houston is impressive. They are blunt when they need to be, passive at the right times, and generally able to show the excitement of standing on the moon.

Hah, “sound doesn’t travel too good in a vacuum but it jumped”, they are taking some pictures.

Soma.fm is an online radio station that I use sometimes. One of the streams is Mission Control audio. I’m here in my chair living this event for the first time along with some ambient chillout style music. You see, I was not even born when these guys were making history. Some 238,000 miles from earth and 9 years before I was born. I’m sure they never thought anyone would be listening to this in their homes 29 years later.

Mr. Young & Mr. Duke, I really appreciate all you have done for the space program. I hope you are both enjoying retirement. I am enjoying listening to the fine job you guys did. Would love to meet you if you are ever in Houston.

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If you run your TSM on AIX read on…

Tape drives need to be changed out from time to time. The process can get tricky if you don’t remember the steps. I’ll give them to you in a bit and you can always reference this page when you need to perform this action again. This is test on AIX 5.3 and Tivoli 5.5.

Step 1. Log into TSM and determine which drive you need to change. You can use query drive, show library and query path f=d to get this information. Lets assume it is a drive named “DRIVE00″ and that its path is /dev/rmt0.
Step 2. Delete the path definition in TSM for the Drive. An example command would be “del path server1 drive00 srct=server destt=drive library0. You can run a help delete path. Remember the settings because we can use them later.
Step 3. Delete the drive definition in TSM. An example command would be “del drive

rmdev -dl lb0
rmdev -dl rmt1
rmdev -dl rmt2
rmdev -dl rmt3
Smit, Devices, Tivoli, Discover Supported Devices, Both fscsi adapters. This gives us lb’s and mt’s. We do not want mt’s.
rmdev -dl mt0
rmdev -dl mt1
rmdev -dl mt2

run cfgmgr in aix to get the rmt’s back.

delete path ZPHBACKUP01 DRIVE00 SRCT=SERV DESTT=DR LIBR=ML6020
delete path ZPHBACKUP01 DRIVE01 SRCT=SERV DESTT=DR LIBR=ML6020
delete path ZPHBACKUP01 DRIVE02 SRCT=SERV DESTT=DR LIBR=ML6020
delete path ZPHBACKUP01 ML6020 SRCT=SERV DESTT=LIBR

delete drive ML6020 DRIVE00
delete drive ML6020 DRIVE01
delete drive ML6020 DRIVE02

stop/start tivoli storage manager

define path ZPHBACKUP01 ML6020 SRCT=SERV DESTT=LIBR DEVI=/dev/lb0

def drive ML6020 DRIVE00
def drive ML6020 DRIVE01
def drive ML6020 DRIVE02

define path ZPHBACKUP01 DRIVE00 SRCT=SERV DESTT=DRIVE LIBR=ML6020 DEVI=/dev/rmt0
define path ZPHBACKUP01 DRIVE01 SRCT=SERV DESTT=DRIVE LIBR=ML6020 DEVI=/dev/rmt1
define path ZPHBACKUP01 DRIVE02 SRCT=SERV DESTT=DRIVE LIBR=ML6020 DEVI=/dev/rmt2

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