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Workspace Storage Copy Data Management
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 27, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks.  Once the scan is complete, the CDM process will unmount the NFS, remove the exports, unmount the disks from the AIX server and export the disks/volume groups from the AIX server.   This runs once every 24 hours.

However, should one of these jobs be delayed for any reason, the next day's job will start and attempt to do all the above steps while the first job is still running.  The new job will fail since it cannot do the steps.  The AIX server may be left in a state that will prevent ANY future jobs from successful completion unless/until manual cleanup is done.

We would like the system to not run the same job when a current job is running to prevent them "stepping" on each other, particularly when the jobs manipulate disk volumes/filesystems.  Having an option to allow or disallow a scheduled job to abort or wait for a previous job to complete is an acceptable option.

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