TMF Planning and Configuration Guide (H06.05+)

Doing an Initial Configuration

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Adding Data Volumes

You use the ADD DATAVOLS command to configure data volumes to be audited by

TMF.

For G-series releases only, the TMF product is shipped from the factory with the

$DSCSCM disk volume configured as a TMF data volume. Although you should not

remove $DSCSCM as a data volume, you are free to add other data volumes to the

configuration. See also the information about the preconfiguration of active-audit

volumes for G-series releases, under Number of Active-Audit Volumes on page 3-4.

The only information you need to supply in this command is the identification of the

data volumes to be added. You can specify multiple volume names in a single ADD

DATAVOLS command. Or if you have a large number of data volumes, you can use

the wild-card (asterisk) form of the ADD DATAVOLS command instead. The wild-card

option specifies that all accessible disk volumes in the system that are not already

configured as data volumes or active-audit volumes are to be added to the TMF

configuration as data volumes.

For each volume being added, you can also optionally choose:

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The audit trail to which the newly added data volume is to send audit records

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The recovery mode

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Whether to add the volume to the configuration regardless of its being used in a

previous configuration (and thus possibly being inconsistent)

In the standard configuration with only a master audit trail, there is no choice of audit

trail; all data volumes send their audit records to the master audit trail. You can select

an audit trail only if you have configured one or more auxiliary audit trails. For more

information, refer to Using Auxiliary Audit Trails on page 3-1.

The recovery mode is an advanced feature that governs the way TMF retains audit

information for automatic volume recovery. In general, you should select ONLINE (the

default). For more information, refer to Setting the Recovery Mode for Volume

Recovery on page 5-13.

Changing the Number of Audit Dump Copies

By default, the audit dump process generates one copy of each dump. To protect

yourself against the possibility of a tape getting damaged, HP strongly recommends

that you reconfigure it to generate two copies of each dump, using the COPIES

parameter of the ALTER AUDITDUMP command.

If you have only a single tape drive, reconfigure the audit dump process to generate

two serial copies. If you have two or more tape drives, reconfigure the audit dump

process to generate two parallel copies.

For further information on audit dumps, online dumps, and recovery, refer to Section 5,

Configuring TMF for Backup and Recovery.