Hi Nicholas,

The 3584 can send snmp traps, this is configured via the specialist gui.
I wrote a few scripts to query TSM, ie number of drives offline, number of
paths offline

Regards,

Stephen.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Nicholas Rodolfich
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 7:31 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting

Hello All,

Thanks for your help!!

We are running TSM 5.3.4 with a IBM 3584 library. Our library has not
exactly been the Pinnacle of MTBF. All the drives have been replaced,
some more than once and the medium changer has been replaced twice. All
of this since April 2007.

The medium changer died this past Friday night and no one caught it
until the next day. Our DBA has made a big stink about monitoring TSM
and alerting when something is wrong. The DBA and another admin think
they can write some code to do this "alerting" on the 8493E message in
the activity log.

My question is: What tools are you folks using to monitor TSM and alert
you to any problems.

Nicholas


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