Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

We have hundreds of LPARS which need to do mksysb periodically.
We use NIM. Is there any graphic tool to automate and consolidate this procedure
? We have scripts. But we want a tool like the functions of TSM&NBU in which we can define the schedule and back windows. And we can check the backup list and result from a central location.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by: MarkTaylor

vmcontrol has a scheduler, have you looked at that yet ? might have to pay for it .. other than that I think its going to be a paid for product to get a nice gui .. unless you take a 3rd party scheduler and add a simple nim script to do the backups ?

Personally, I resorted to writing a script that can be dropped into cron, TWS or any other scheduler that will back up multiple nodes in parallel using ssh to control and nfs for the backups (or a fifo over ssh if nfs fails) . NIM is restricted to defining a single nim object at a time (or always used to be) so you couldnt carry out 2 x backups at the same time .. was thinking of GPL'ing it, needs a bit of tidying and its a bit of a monster (over 6k lines) but its pretty comprehensive and configurable and robust and currently in at quite a few large AIX shops (i.e 500+ lpars) .. does aix mksysb's and VIOs backupios .. so, depending on whether people would be interested I may tidy it up and GPL it for the wider AIX community ..

Rgds
Mark Taylor
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