You describe an environment like our own, and is why we are moving off of
this product.  I would say no, it doesn't fit your environment.

Rick




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----- Richard Rhodes wrote: -----

>We have successfully used StorServer Manager for automation for
>a number of years. It works well as long as your processing
>follows standard way TSM want's to run. At times it gets confused,
>but in general we have been happy with it.  It's worth a look and
>demo try.

Our environment has several features that arguably fall outside
the bounds of the "standard way TSM want's to run":

1.We have 64 sets of storage pools with a disk pool, a primary
tape pool, and a copy tape pool in each set (we are still at 5.2,
so we do not have the option of using collocation groups).

2.We find it necessary to have tape reclamation run concurrently
with inventory expiration.

3.We have an unusual approach to vaulting recovery plan files:
'prepare' command, 'dsmc' to back up the recovery plan file,
'generate backupset' to create a backup set containing the
recovery plan file, and 'checkout libvol' to eject the tape
containing the backup set.

Is StorServer Manager flexible enough support these features of
our environment?



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