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Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring)

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Issues in IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center Reporting

Using IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center Version 7.1.8.0 The "At-Risk" does not work on archives. It works solely on backups as is indicated by the message "At Risk" (Policy: A backup did not completeduring the configured status interval (by de...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Operations Center Alert emails

The recently released Operations Center supports the reporting and managing of TSM alert messages in a web page. It also supports the distribution of specific ALERTS to email recipients, allowing pro-active notification of certain relevant system ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Collect the file space information in TSM monitoring and reporting

Currently the file space (q filespace) information from the TSM server is not being captured in the Monitoring and reporting application. The information that I am needing the most is the file space capacity and the percentage utilized.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Add schedule backup end time to Monitoring for TSM

The monitoring agent for Tivoli Storage Manager should collect information about backup end time for client and also administrative schedules. Currently it is collecting only result and start time. This information is easily collectable in TSM dat...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Expose node groups in TSM reporting

Expose the node groups and the membership of the nodes in the node groups so reports can be grouped by the node group.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Expose collocation groups in TSM reporting

Expose the collocation groups and node members hip for reporting purposes.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

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.
over 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...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

OC STG Settings flexibilisation

In a large Installations monitored by Operational Center are settings for Storage Pools too inflexible.The thresholds could be set only for all Spoke Servers and all Storage Pools. Especially by using of Storage Pool from type FILE with predefined...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 IE11 support

Spectrum Protect (TSM) Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 requires IE8 or IE9 browsers. Microsoft, and my employer, are now supporting only IE11/Edge. The request is to update the software to provide a modern browser support point.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration