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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Product functionality
Created by Guest
Created on May 4, 2015

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Server audit log for restore operations

In some scenarios it might be desirable, that restore operations for specific nodes can be logged - so that it later on is possible to do a traceback to identify a given account, that performed a restore of one or more objects on a client.
The log should reside on the TSM server, so that a local user on a given client cannot delete the restore log, and thereby potentially erase any evidence of a restore action having taken place.

The information, that should be logged on the TSM server (probably in a new log/table), should contain information about date/time, which node the restore was performed from (maybe also proxynode information, if relevant), the object(s) tried to be restored, the operating user account name, that performed the restore, the location of the restored object (if restored to another location than the original) and an indication of the object was restored with success or not.

It should be possible to set retention on the new table/log (like with events and so on), so that entries older than xx days automatically will be discarded.

The logging of restore actions should be enabled/disabled on per node basis (a new parameter on the node - LogRestores=yes/no)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 12, 2020

    This request has been delivered into a previously released version of the product, or imminently in the next available release.
    See server option REPORTRTRV. This logs client read operations to activity log.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 18, 2016

    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
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Multiple
    Source - BRaaS - Backup and Restore as a Service

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Multiple
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 18, 2016

    It would be nice, if the logging could be enabled on a node basis - and the restore/retrieve actions logged in a separate table.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    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

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