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Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring)

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Reporting in TSM Operations Center

Given that TSM Operations Center is the direct replacement to the no longer maintained Administration Center, it would be nice to incorporate the Tivoli Common Reporting features into the TSM Operations Center.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

Include NAS Backups statistics in the data collection of Monitoring and Reporting.

Currently, the results from NAS Backups (NDMP) stored in the summary table is not collected in the WAREHOUS database. As such, it's also not possible to produce any custom reports on NAS Backups. Collecting the rows from the summary table where ac...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Operation Center Reports - Server Groups and comma separated list of servers

Operation Center custom reports should allow selecting more than one server in "Configure Report", either by comma-separated list, or by server groups.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 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...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

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

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

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

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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration