IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management, Version 7.1

Managing your password

If you installed the Tivoli® Storage Manager for Space Management client on your client node, and you require a Tivoli Storage Manager password, set the passwordaccess option to generate in your dsm.sys file. Set the mailprog option in your dsm.sys file to send you the password each time it generates a new one.

Tivoli Storage Manager encrypts and stores your password locally and automatically generates a new password for your client node each time it expires. You are not prompted for a Tivoli Storage Manager password.

The backup-archive client and the Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client use the same password when both clients contact the same Tivoli Storage Manager server. One password is required for each Tivoli Storage Manager server that your client node contacts for services.

If you specify a migration server for the migrateserver option in your dsm.sys file, the password that you set applies to the migration server.

If you specify a default server on the defaultserver option in your dsm.sys file and you do not specify a migration server on the migrateserver option, the password that you set applies to the default server.

If you do not specify either a migration server or a default server, the password that you set applies to the named server in the first stanza of your dsm.sys file.

Note: Your Tivoli Storage Manager password can only be changed from the command line. To change that password from the command line, issue the command (where oldpw is the old password and newpw is your new password):

  dsmsetpw oldpw newpw

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