IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Version 7.1

DISABLE SESSIONS (Prevent new sessions from accessing Tivoli Storage Manager)

Use this command to prevent new sessions from accessing Tivoli® Storage Manager. Active sessions will complete. For a particular server, you can specify whether to disable inbound sessions, outbound sessions, or both.

Server processes, such as migration and reclamation, are not affected when you issue the DISABLE SESSIONS command.

Privilege class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege or operator privilege.

Syntax


>>-DISAble SESSions--------------------------------------------->

   .-CLIent------------------------------------------------------.   
>--+-------------------------------------------------------------+-><
   '-+-CLIent--------------------------------------------------+-'   
     +-ALL-----------------------------------------------------+     
     +-ADMin---------------------------------------------------+     
     '-SERVer--+---------------------------------------------+-'     
               |              .-DIRection--=--Both---------. |       
               '-server_name--+----------------------------+-'       
                              '-+-DIRection--=--Both-----+-'         
                                +-DIRection--=--INbound--+           
                                '-DIRection--=--OUTbound-'

Parameters

Specifies the type of session to be disabled. This parameter is optional. The default value is CLIENT. You can specify one of the following values:

CLIent

Disables only backup and archive client sessions.

ALL

Disables all session types.

ADMin

Disables only administrative sessions.

SERVer

Disables only server-to-server sessions. Only the following types of sessions are disabled:

Server-to-server event logging
Enterprise management
Server registration
LAN-free: storage agent - server
Virtual volumes
Node replication

You can also specify whether to disable inbound sessions, outbound sessions, or both for a particular server.

server_name

Specifies the name of a server whose sessions you want to disable. This parameter is optional. If you do not specify this parameter, new sessions with other servers do not start. Running sessions are not canceled.

DIRection

Specifies whether to disable inbound sessions, outbound sessions, or both. This parameter is optional. The default is BOTH. The following values are possible:

Both: Specifies that inbound sessions from the specified server and outbound sessions to the specified server are disabled.
INbound: Specifies that only inbound sessions from the specified server are disabled.
OUTbound: Specifies that only outbound sessions to the specified server are disabled.

Example: Prevent new client node backup and archive sessions on the server

Temporarily prevent new client node sessions from accessing the server.

disable sessions

Example: Prevent all new sessions on the server

Temporarily prevent any new sessions from accessing the server.

disable sessions all

Example: Disable outbound sessions to a server

Disable outbound sessions to a server named REPLSRV.

disable sessions server replsrv direction=outbound

Related commands

Table 1. Commands related to DISABLE SESSIONS
Command	Description
CANCEL SESSION	Cancels active sessions with the server.
DISABLE REPLICATION	Prevents outbound replication processing on a server.
ENABLE SESSIONS	Resumes server activity following the DISABLE command or the ACCEPT DATE command.
QUERY SESSION	Displays information about all active administrator and client sessions with Tivoli Storage Manager.
QUERY STATUS	Displays the settings of server parameters, such as those selected by the SET commands.

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