Do you know if there is an eval program for Servergraph? Do you know
what the cost is?

Nicholas Rodolfich
Network Administrator (AIX)
East Jefferson General Hospital
504-883-6955 (office)
228-223-1187 (mobile)
nrodolfich AT ejgh DOT org


>>> Howard.Coles AT ARDENTHEALTH DOT COM 1/29/2008 3:56 PM >>>
You should also look into Servergraph, which can send email alerts
when
things like this go wrong.  I have benefited from those messages on
more
than one occasion.  A problem we had recently with a few drives was
that
they would just lock up.  The Library would think they were busy, but
no
data would go in or out, and eventually TSM would time out on the
drive.



See Ya'
Howard
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
Stephen Mackereth
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:11 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting

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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