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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
please provide more information or submit a comment that you'd like this RFE to be closed
1. Scratch count alert if it goes down to 2 or less – need alert
Answer: TSM 6.3 is going to have scratch tape data, so you will be able to setup an alert if scratch tapes get to a certain level.
4. Library goes down page on call
Answer: We will have library data being collected in TSM 6.3, along with its status. You should be able to create a situation to run a script if a library's status becomes unavailable.
5. Can't connect/log onto TSM server from client
Answer: If this type of error is reflected in the Activity log, then you will be able to mine the activity log for this error and then notify someone via a script in ITM
6. Servers that have not made a connection for more than 30 days.
Answer: If you mean a computer that needs to connect to the TSM server, then we do not have the ability to say that it has 'connected', but there is the ability where you can ask ITM if the computer has done a backup in the past 30 days.
7. Servers that have missed/failed or have not completed backups for more than 5 days.
Answer: Same as in #6
8. drives/paths go down, just open a ticket only
Answer: We have Drives in TSM 6.3 being monitored now, and you can configure ITM to execute any script you like, even if you have a script that will open a ticket.
9. Largest backups - Monitor if the servers need to go LAN free if they are backing up large amount of data.
Answer: You can easily see, today, who is using the largest amount of storage on the TSM server(s). We are enhancing this a bit for TSM 6.3
I would like to remove item no 2 and 3 from the monitoring requirement list, because we are good with those two requirements.
But I would like to add with this RFE that existing agent that we have in place is not working with heavy running TSM server, TSM admin complains that this agent choke the server resource. Agent seems to be running okay with light TSM servers.