Install IBM Tivoli TSM 5.5 Backup Server (trial) on your Laptop using Linux KVM virtual machine

This article will guide you to install IBM TSM server on LINUX.

Requirements

  1. Red Hat Linux 5.x operating system
  2. TSM server software version 5.x
  3. One virtual machine for tsm server running RHEL 5.x
  4. Another virtual machine for tsm client running RHEL 5.x

Downloads

  1. TSM Server software - ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/server/v5r5/Linux/5.5.7.000/x86_64/
  2. TSM Client software - ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r5/Linux/LinuxX86/v554/ 

Installing TSM Server


First install the operating system and network interface. I kept the VM with 8GB hard disk and 1 GB RAM.
Un-tar/unzip the TSM server software.

Run the installation script

  
  ./install_server
 
and accept the trial license and select Basic Server install, the installation should finish successfully. In case you get package dependencies, make sure you have a RHEL 5.x repository available to your virtual machine.

Starting TSM server


Goto  below folder:
/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin

and give below command:
 
./dsmserv

You will get a prompt:

TSM:SERVER1>

Where, SERVER1 is the default server name for your trial TSM server.


Verify installation



You can give below commands for verification (from the tsm prompt of course):

TSM:SERVER1>
query db
ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY DB

Available     Assigned       Maximum       Maximum        Page         Total          Used       Pct      Max.
    Space     Capacity     Extension     Reduction        Size        Usable         Pages      Util       Pct
     (MB)         (MB)          (MB)          (MB)     (bytes)         Pages                              Util
---------     --------     ---------     ---------     -------     ---------     ---------     -----     -----
       16           16             0            12       4,096         4,096           176       4.3       4.3

You should get above respose, and yes 16MB is the dafault available space on your server. Just sufficient to practice I guess.

There are other commands as below you can test:

query status
query stgpool
query log
query option

check for yourself, it might be interesting.

That's it for the server install.

I will post another article for TSM Client installation here.

Good luck!


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