Hi,

I am Oracle DBA new to Informix.  IDS version 9.3 on AIX: 4.3

I was trying to configure ISM.  I got it up and running as per the
manual last week.  Today when I typed "ism_watch" I got an error saying
server not available. I couldn't find any nsr deamons.  I wanted to re-
start the ISM.  When I try to start the ISM (as root) I get the
following output:

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start_ism: is starting the ISM daemons.

*** The environment variable PRINTER is not set.

   The ISM server cannot print important bootstrap information.

   To perform a full ISM recovery, e.g. from a disk failure, use

   'ism_catalog -find_bootstrap'.

ism_startup: Initializing the ISM server.

create failed: A group already exists named 'ISMDiskData'

create failed: save set of /dev/null would be specified by two

create failed: There is already a `NSR label' with name `ISMDiskData'

create failed: There is already a `NSR pool' with name `ISMDiskData'

create failed: A group already exists named 'ISMDiskLogs'

create failed: save set of /dev/null would be specified by two

create failed: There is already a `NSR label' with name `ISMDiskLogs'

create failed: There is already a `NSR pool' with name `ISMDiskLogs'

create failed: A group already exists named 'ISMData'

create failed: save set of /dev/null would be specified by two

create failed: There is already a `NSR label' with name `ISMData'

create failed: There is already a `NSR pool' with name `ISMData'

create failed: A group already exists named 'ISMLogs'

create failed: save set of /dev/null would be specified by two

create failed: There is already a `NSR label' with name `ISMLogs'

create failed: There is already a `NSR pool' with name `ISMLogs Clone'

create failed: A policy already exists with name '6 Months'

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Can I ignore these Messages?

Also, When I try to  run the following steps,

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ism_add -device $SM_DISKDEV1 -type file

ism_add -device $SM_DISKDEV2 -type file

ism_op -label $SM_DISKDEV1 -pool ISMDiskData -volume ISMData

ism_op -label $SM_DISKDEV1 -pool ISMDiskLogs -volume ISMLogs

ism_op -mount $SM_DISKDEV1

ism_op -mount $SM_DISKDEV2

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I get a message saying that

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Tue 17:56:52 /fs/backup/dbqa/dbspaces duplicate name; pick new
name or delete

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I unmounted the device and I still get the error.

Can someone tell what I am doing wrong or everything is fine???

Thanks,

Sree