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Managed System for SAN Storage Agent User's Guide


Starting and Stopping the Device Driver

To enable or disable the ADSMSCSI device driver, use the tsmscsi command. After you enable the device driver, you can start it by rebooting the client system.

To enable the device driver you would use:

tsmscsi /enable
Note:
If you have not added the storage agent path to the search path, you must first change to the directory where the storage agent program resides.

You will receive a message similar to the following:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|TSM Optical support is enabled on DATAOWNER.                                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Or

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|TSM Windows 2000 / Optical support is enabled on DATAOWNER.                     |
|                                                                                |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Note:
The message says that optical support is enabled, however the Managed System for SAN feature does not support the use of optical devices on the SAN.

To stop the device driver:

tsmscsi /disable

You will receive a message similar to the following:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|TSM Optical support is disabled on DATAOWNER.                                   |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

To determine the device driver's status, enter the command without a parameter:

tsmscsi 

The system responds with a message such as the following:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|TSM Windows 2000 / Optical support is disabled on DATAOWNER.                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

With no parameters, the command displays the current state of the device driver. The complete syntax of the command is:

>>-tsmscsi--+-----------------------------+--+----------+--+-----------+-><
            '-/computer--=--computer_name-'  +-/enable--+  '-/localw2k-'
                                             +-/disable-+
                                             '-/?-------'
 
 

The parameters are:

/computer=computer_name
Specifies the name of the computer for which devices will be listed. The default is the local machine.

/enable
Enable, or start, the TSM device driver.

/disable
Disable, or stop, the TSM device driver

/?
Display information about the command and its parameters.

/localw2k
Run the command only if the local machine is a Windows 2000 machine.
Windows NT

To start the device driver on Windows NT, you can also do the following:

  1. On the Windows Start button, click Settings then Control Panel. The Control Panel dialog appears.
  2. Double click Devices. The Devices dialog appears.
  3. Click the ADSMSCSI device driver to select it from the list.
  4. Click the Startup... button. The Device dialog appears.
  5. Click Auto. This ensures that the ADSMSCSI device driver starts whenever you reboot the machine.
  6. Click OK.

In some circumstances, you may need to ensure that the Windows device driver is disabled. Do the following:

  1. Click the Windows device driver to select it from the list.
  2. Click the Startup... button. The Device dialog appears.
  3. Click Manual. This ensures that the Windows device driver does not start until you enter the Control Panel dialog and manually start the Windows device driver.
  4. Click OK.


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