During installation, a sample client user-options file
called dsm.opt.smp is placed in the installation directory.
Creating
a default client user-options file (dsm.opt) is an optional task.
You can use the default
client user-options file to define the following options:
- Backup and archive processing options
- Restore and retrieve processing options
- Scheduling options
- Format options
- Command processing options
- Authorization options
- Error processing options
- Transaction processing option
- Web client options
If you are a root user or a system administrator, you can
create or modify a default client user-options file for all users
on your workstation. From the UNIX command
line:
- Change to the directory containing the sample file.
- For systems other than Solaris, copy the dsm.opt.smp file to dsm.opt
or to a new file name of your choice.
- For UNIX and Linux (other than Mac OS X), use the following
information:
- For the default client user-options file: You can store your default
client user-options file to the default file dsm.opt, in the same
directory as the dsm.sys.smp file, or use any other path and file
name to which you have read access. If you rename your client user-options
file or place it in a different directory, you can set the DSM_CONFIG
environment variable or use the optfile option to
point to your new client user-options file.
- For Mac OS X systems, use the following information:
- For the default client user-options file: You can
store your default client user-options file as /Library/Preferences/Tivoli
Storage Manager/dsm.opt.
- For the client user-options file: You can copy
your client user-options file to ~/Library/Preferences/Tivoli
Storage Manager/dsm.opt, or in any directory for which you
have write access. If you rename your client user-options file or
place it in a different directory, you must set the DSM_CONFIG environment
variable or use the optfile option to point to your new client user-options
file.
Important: For Mac OS X, the system-options
file must be a plain text file, encoded as Unicode (UTF-8). By default,
TextEdit does not save files as plain text. Select to save the user-options file as a plain text file.
Set the
Plain Text Encoding: to
Unicode
(UTF-8). Do not add the
.txt extension.
You can then edit your dsm.opt file as appropriate for your
system. From the GUI, you can edit this file using the Preferences
editor by opening the Edit menu and selecting Preferences.
The Preferences editor updates the client configuration files, dsm.opt
and dsm.sys, if any options have changed. If you update the dsm.opt
file during a session, you must restart the session to pick up the
changes.
The Preferences editor uses the environment variable
DSM_DIR to locate the dsm.sys file and DSM_CONFIG to locate the client
user-options file (default name dsm.opt). The Preferences editor queries
the server for options on the server, but cannot change the server
options file.
For more information about the
environment variables, see Set processing environment variables.