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4.4.2 Installing the TSM client<br />

This step includes installing the TSM backup-archive client, TSM API, and the<br />

TSM Tivoli D<strong>at</strong>a Protection product. Each of these pieces can be upd<strong>at</strong>ed<br />

independent of the others. However the TSM backup-archive client and the<br />

TDP product each are shipped with their own version of the TSM API. You<br />

may encounter situ<strong>at</strong>ions where upgrading the TSM backup-archive client or<br />

upgrading the TSM Tivoli D<strong>at</strong>a Protection product may change the TSM API<br />

level.<br />

The backup-archive client is not required in order to do Tivoli D<strong>at</strong>a Protection<br />

or DB2 backups. It is needed in order to use TSM scheduling or to backup<br />

files and directories th<strong>at</strong> the TDP or DB2 programs are unable to.<br />

Some products like DB2 provide n<strong>at</strong>ive support for TSM, a TDP product is not<br />

necessary. The only thing required to do DB2 backups using TSM is to install<br />

and configure the TSM API.<br />

4.4.3 Configuring the TSM client<br />

In order to configure the TSM client, you must perform the following tasks:<br />

set the environment variables, cre<strong>at</strong>e and specify options in the client options<br />

file, set up the scheduler, and perform configur<strong>at</strong>ion tasks specific to the TDP<br />

product being used.<br />

TSM client programs cannot discover TSM servers on a network. The<br />

communic<strong>at</strong>ion method and the address of the TSM server must be specified<br />

in a client options file. The client options file is a plain text file, whose default<br />

name is dsm.opt. On UNIX systems, the client options file is a combin<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />

two plain text files, dsm.opt and dsm.sys.<br />

The TSM backup-archive client looks for the client options file in a default<br />

loc<strong>at</strong>ion or in a loc<strong>at</strong>ion specified by environment variables. The environment<br />

variables th<strong>at</strong> are used are DSM_CONFIG, DSM_DIR, and DSM_LOG.<br />

All products th<strong>at</strong> interface with the TSM server through the TSM API use a<br />

different set of environment variables. The environment variables th<strong>at</strong> are<br />

used are DSMI_CONFIG, DSMI_DIR, and DSMI_LOG. If these environment<br />

values are not set, default values are used th<strong>at</strong> are different than the default<br />

values th<strong>at</strong> the TSM backup-archive client uses.<br />

36 <strong>Backing</strong> <strong>Up</strong> <strong>Oracle</strong> using Tivoli Storage Management

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