Hi,
we use http://www.nagios.org/ with plugis from
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/, some own plugins
and for snmp http://www.nagtrap.org

It's opensource with a very active community.

We see if someone opens the library ;-)

Regards
Frank Fischer

Sozialversicherungsträger 
für den Gartenbau 
 - GB IT - 
Frankfurter Str. 126 
34121 Kassel 



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] Im Auftrag von
Timothy Hughes
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2008 15:19
An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Betreff: Re: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting

or

http://www.wysdm.com/
http://www.wysdm.com/whitepapers/WysDM%20for%20Backups%20Datasheet.pdf




Wanda Prather wrote:
> Another product to look at:  www.aptare.com
>
> You can't tell a lot from their website, but they do a very good web 
> demo if you contact them.
>
>
> On 1/29/08, Howard Coles <Howard.Coles AT ardenthealth DOT com> wrote:
>
>> 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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