Messages and backup reports
can indicate whether LAN-free operations are successful. You can also
use the QUERY SESSION and QUERY ACTLOG commands
to verify LAN-free operations.
Procedure
Use one or more of the following methods to determine
whether the data movement was LAN-free:
- When data transfers on a LAN-free path, the following message
is displayed to inform you that the client is starting a session with
the storage agent and that LAN-free data movement occurred:
ANR0415I Session session_number proxied
by storage_agent_name for node your_node_name
- View the backup report that is issued when backup processing
completes. If LAN-free data movement occurred, the number of LAN-free
bytes that are transferred is greater than zero.
- Verify that the sessions are established and that LAN-free
data movement is occurring:
- Using a Tivoli® Storage
Manager administrative command-line
client, log in to the storage agent and the Tivoli Storage
Manager server.
- Issue the QUERY SESSION command for the node
that is running the LAN-free backup. In the command output, look for
information about bytes sent and bytes received. If LAN-free data
movement is occurring:
- Querying a session on the storage agent shows bytes received for
the node that is increasing to the total amount of data that is being
backed up.
- Querying a session on the Tivoli Storage
Manager server shows a
few bytes of metadata that is received for the same node.
If the node's session has these characteristics, the data movement
is LAN-free.
Tip: During a failover when the storage agent is
sending data directly to the server by proxy because it cannot store
the data directly, the session statistics on the server show a much
higher byte count.
- Issue either of the following QUERY ACTLOG commands
on the server to which the client is connected:
- query actlog search=storage_agent_name msgno=8337
- query actlog search=storage_agent_name
If the query locates entries in the activity log that
relate to the storage agent, the client is using LAN-free data transfer.