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Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring)

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Add filspace start/backup end time to Monitoring for TSM

The monitoring agent for Tivoli Storage Manager should collect information about backup start and end time for filespace backups (Occupancy view in Tivoli Enterprise Portal). This information is easily collectable in TSM database.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Planned for future release

Add path status monitoring to Monitoring for TSM

We would like to add monitoring of TSM PATH status to Tivoli Monitoring for TSM. There is no such functionality currently.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Planned for future release

Update KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow schedule failures/misses to be monitored in ITM

The ability to create 'Pure' monitoring situations against the KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow for situations to fire when a node's scheduled backup execution results in a terminal condition (i.e. Failed or Missed). Currently, if a situation...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

I would like to know if there is a simple TSM reporting tool that could email me a summary of the nightly backups.

I would like a simple reporting tool that would email me a daily report of backup schedules, which were successful and which were not, number of scratch tapes available and what items failed to backup.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

Provide enhanced reporting to indicate age of data being restored

Executives would like to see statistics on the age of files being restored, where age is elapsed time from when the file being restored was backed up. When a restore completes there should be data generated to provide either the age of the object ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

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