If you want to use different options than those specified
in the default client user-options file (dsm.opt), you can create
your own client user-options file.
About this task
You can set all of the options that can
be set in the default user options file. Creating a customized client
user-options file (dsm.opt) is an optional task. To create or modify
a client user-options file, use the following method:
Procedure
- Contact the Tivoli® Storage
Manager administrator on your workstation to determine the location
of the sample client user-options file dsm.opt.smp, and to get the
TCP/IP address of the backup server you are connecting to and the
port it listens on.
- Copy dsm.opt.smp to your home directory as dsm.opt, or
a new file name of your choice. You can store your client user-options
file in any directory to which you have write access.
- Set the DSM_CONFIG environment variable to point to your
new client user-options file.
- Edit your dsm.opt file as appropriate for your system or
use the Tivoli Storage Manager Preferences
editor by selecting from the Tivoli Storage Manager Java™ GUI.
Results
Once you have created an options file, you can use the
following steps to edit your options file from the GUI.
- Open the Edit menu and select Preferences.
- Make any necessary changes, then click OK to save those
changes.
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.