One thing that you need to set up LanFree on TSM (or any kind of SAN Fiber channel backup) is the serial number of the tape drive registered on your server. I happen to be working on a somewhat heterogeneous environment that includes AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, and Windows. Below is my note on how to obtain the tape drive serial number those OSes. I’m using IBM TS3200 as our media library
RHEL
Pretty straight forward . All you have to do is type the following command:
[root@hqdwhbe1 ~]# cat /proc/scsi/IBMtape
lin_tape version: 1.10.0
lin_tape major number: 250
Attached Tape Devices:
Number model SN HBA FO Path
0 ULT3580-TD4 1310140159 qla2xxx NA
1 ULT3580-TD4 1310039844 qla2xxx NA
2 ULT3580-TD4 1310135990 qla2xxx NA
3 ULT3580-TD4 1310135028 qla2xxx NA
4 ULT3580-TD4 1310136043 qla2xxx NA
5 ULT3580-TD4 1310136063 qla2xxx NA
[root@hqdwhbe1 ~]#
The command above will show you the serial number of all tape drive installed on your RHEL box
AIX
Similar to RHEL, do this on the console:
# lscfg -vpl rmt0
rmt0 U789D.001.DQD74R5-P1-C2-T2-W2002000E11114398-L0
IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
Manufacturer................IBM
Machine Type and Model......ULT3580-TD4
Serial Number...............1310140159
Device Specific.(FW)........89B2
PLATFORM SPECIFIC
Name: tape
Node: tape
Device Type: byte
HP-UX
IBM provide us with tapeutil, a nice tool operate the IBM tape from console. To start, just type:
# tapeutil
From the menu, press “1” to open a device. Type down the path to your tape drive. Next press “1” to choose to open the device for read/write access
..On the next screen, press “3” to query for the tape drive serial number
There you go
That’s it 🙂