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Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring)

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Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center Reporting, enhanced capabilities

Two items:Reporting in Operations Center by mail is limited to only simple mail. Sending reports is only possible hourly, daily or weekly.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center option to only send report if there is output

Operation Center "Configure Report" should have a checkbox to prevent sending a report if there is no output.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

OC Send reports monthly

Today OC can create and send reports daily or weekly, we would like to create and send report monthly also. We have seen the need at several customers to send monthly reports.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Operations Center: Select multiple (but not all) servers for a report

Currently, you can select either one or all servers for a report. It would be very helpfull if you would be able to select a subset of servers.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to TSM Operations Center related to Tape Drives Usage/Mounts Reports

System: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterActor: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterUser needing reporting features to assess tape drives usage/mounts in order to provide analysis for future needs in tape drive growth/usage. Description: Operations...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

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