Portable IBM DS Storage Manager

When you visit clients with different storage subsystems and different firmware levels, it's nice to be able to plug into the client's LAN and have the latest version of Storage Manager, compatible with old and new firmware levels, at your fingertips. Here is how you can install DS Storage Manager on a USB stick, to carry it with you anywhere you go:

1) Install the Storage Manager application on a PC (default installation directory C:\Program Files\IBM_DS).

2) Copy the IBM_DS directory to your USB stick.

3) Edit the variables in the file IBM_DS\client\Storage Manager 10 Client.lax on your USB stick and change the path values from absolute to relative (all paths will be relative to the IBM_DS\client directory on your USB stick):

# This is where the storage subsystem information is stored.
# Create this folder manually before running Storage Manager.
devmgr.datadir=data/subsystems

lax.class.path=jhall.jar;SMclient.jar;../;lax.jar

lax.dir=.

lax.nl.current.vm=../ia/jre/bin/java.exe

lax.root.install.dir=../

lax.user.dir=.

Now you can launch the executable IBM_DS\client\Storage Manager 10 Client.exe from your USB stick to run the Storage Manager Application.

The old DS3000 Storage Manager V2 can be installed on the same USB stick using a very similar procedure. This is especially convenient since old versions of DS3000 Storage Manager and DS4000/DS5000 Storage Manager cannot be installed on the same PC using the conventional method.