Tivoli Storage Manager for Sun Solaris: Managed System for SAN Storage Agent User's Guide


Obtaining Tape Device Information on the Client System

Obtaining tape device information in a Sun environment is different depending on whether your environment supports IBM devices or non-IBM devices as follows:

IBM Tape Devices

After installing device drivers for your IBM tape drives, a set of special file name available for each device. To see the special file names, use the command

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|ls /dev/rmt/*st                                                                 |
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The name typically has the form:

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|/dev/rmt/xst                                                                    |
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where x is a number.

Non-IBM Tape Devices

To use the TSM device drivers, you must do the following:

  1. Verify that the device is connected to your system, and is powered on and active
  2. Ensure the TSM device driver package (TIVsmSdev) is installed.
  3. Edit the /usr/kernel/drv/mt.conf file. Add one stanza (as shown in the example at the top of the file) for each SCSI target ID and LUN combination you want the device driver to probe for supported tape drives.
  4. Configure the drives by entering the following command:
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    |> /usr/sbin/add_drv -m '* 0666 bin bin' /usr/kernel/drv/mt                      |
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  5. Determine the special file names for the tape drives.

    The device special files for the tape drives appear in the /dev/rmt directory. Their names have the form /dev/rmt/xmt, where x is a number. To determine the relationship between a physical device and the special file that was created for it, issue the following command:

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    |> ls  /dev/rmt/*mt                                                              |
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    The name typically has the form:

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    |/dev/rmt/xmt                                                                    |
    +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    where x is a number.


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