Does the Operational reporting tool actually work properly now? As far
as I was aware it was 'broken' in that is used the TSM summary table to
gather data, and this table is currently unreliable for client backups?
-----Original Message-----
From: David McClelland
<David.McClelland AT REUTERS DOT COM>@EME
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:46 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM Operational Reporting - some answers...
Hi Lawrence,
TSM Operational Reporting is, in itself, self-contained.
No
DB2/Oracle/obscure-COTS/Tivoli Framework required, all
you need is a TSM
Server somewhere to point it at. It's a doddle to
install, no really, it
is. From double clicking the install file to getting
some genuinely
useful reports in less than 15 minutes.
In terms of limitations, I think I read somewhere that
as of the GA
release, you cannot actually install TSM Operational
Reporting on a TSM
Server - it has to be a separate box somewhere, and it
has to be
installed in a Windows 2000 or above server (i.e. not
NT4). I have it
running on a very low powered workstation at the moment,
and it does its
job just fine.
What you refer to below is an 'extra', in that if you
*want* you can
output logs to a logfile, and have a Tivoli Logfile
Adapter scrape the
log and forward on any pertinent events (such as tape
drives going
offline, client schedules missed etc) onto a TEC console
should you so
wish. Certainly not a prerequisite.
As for location, you can download the latest GA version
(v. 5.2.2.0)
from :
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintena
nce/server/v5r2/WIN/LATEST/
where you'll see the, okay, slightly
non-immediately-obviously-named
file TSMCON5220_WIN.EXE which is about 10MB and is all
you'll need. This
file is also available on the Windows TSM Server CD, I
just don't
remember where or how off the top of my head.
Hope that helps people - seems to have been a little
confusion over the
product in the past. I have it reporting on 8 TSM
servers at the moment,
one of it's main uses is to run some custom SQL reports
and dump these
out to a web server so that our TSM backup 'customers'
can see for
themselves that their precious servers did (or
didn't...) backup up
overnight. This product is *so* much better than TDS for
SMA, which was,
for me, a nightmare in so many senses.
David McClelland
Tivoli Certified Consultant
Global Management Systems
Reuters
85 Fleet Street
London EC4P 4AJ
E-mail david.mcclelland AT reuters DOT com
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Clark
[mailto:Larry_Clark AT THRUWAY.STATE.NY DOT US]
Sent: 19 February 2004 14:02
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING
You may not want to bother. Looking at the docs under
the latest
directory, it appears as though the TSM operational
reporting tool is
not self-contained. As in the previous tools offered, it
requires
another non-TSM Tivoli product to work. I may be wrong.
Can someone
clarify?
Installation and configuration
The following section goes through installation and
configuration of the
logfile adapter and configuration of TEC. To configure
TEC alerting,
the Tivoli Logfile adapter for Windows 2000 must be
installed on the
Windows Server where Operational Reporting is installed.
This is not
supplied with TSM and can be found on the TEC
installation CDs. This
should be installed as per the Tivoli installation
instructions for a
Tivoli managed host (if a Tivoli end-point is installed)
or a non-TME
managed host. The instructions included here assume
that the Windows
Server running Operational Reporting does not have a
Tivoli End-Point
installed. The sample files supplied are for the TEC
3.8 version of the
logfile adapter and assume a TEC 3.8 console.
>>> goran.k AT VIP DOT HR 2/19/2004 8:51:11 AM >>>
thanks, i know that but someone has said that it comes
with TSM 5.2 ...
where ? on CD's ?
g.
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From: "rh" <rh_info_store AT YAHOO DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING
>
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/techprev/ts
mopreport/latest/
>
> --- goran <goran.k AT VIP DOT HR> wrote:
> > hi to all ...
> >
> > if someone can explain this to me, operational
> > reporting comes with tsm 5.2
> > ? what means that "comes with", where can i find it
> > ?
> >
> > thanks
>
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