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Re: TSM Reporting tool advice

2002-05-13 10:45:38
Subject: Re: TSM Reporting tool advice
From: "Pearson, Dave" <DCPearson AT SNOPUD DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 07:45:06 -0700
Here are three others that I know of...  Servergraph/TSM, CA/Vantage and
StorServer Manager.
We are testing out Servergraph/TSM and we are happy with this one. Most
places will give you 30 days trial.

Dave Pearson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Currell [SMTP:dlcurrell AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:45 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      TSM Reporting tool advice
>
> My client has a Service Level Agreement with his
> customers that assures them of a minimum of one full
> (selective) backup of their workstations per year.
> There are currently in excess of 1500 workstations and
> 300 servers that are TSM clients. It is a simple
> matter to identify the workstations and schedule TSM
> to run the backups. What isn't so simple is to
> find/develop a tool that reports success or failure of
> scheduled backups via e-mail or some other such means.
> My client prefers commercial-off-the-shelf products so
> Tivoli Decision Support will, obviously, be
> investigated. Does anyone know of any other products
> that could be used? I have not heard anything
> encouraging about Tivoli Decision Support and if
> doesn't work out then I'll be writing my own tool with
> the ODBC driver and the TSM API, (probably on a
> Windows platform :-(. Has anyone done this
> before.
>
> Please don't question the wisdom of promising users a
> yearly full backup of their workstations - it's a done
> deed!
>
> Thank you.
>
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