Another approach is to turn accounting on, and use those records to
create the view.  We had the same need, and wrote a Rexx program that
daily reads those records and generates a timeline using a very basic
text format of a bar graph showing exactly when each session was
running.  We reference this whenever we want to add new nodes, or
occassionally revamp the entire schedule, since it shows where our
"spikes" and "holes" are.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Mr. Lindsay Morris" <lmorris AT SERVERGRAPH DOT COM> 
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 9:17 AM
To: VM.MARIST.EDU;.ADSM-L
Subject: Re: how many active session?


One way to do this is to take periodic "query session" readings and
count them. A better way (ours) is to analyze the activity log for
session-start and session-end messages (not as easy as it sounds, but
do-able). This is better because:
        1. It doesn't hammer your TSM server with queries
        2. It sees all the fine detail of session activity.  When a TSM
schedule fires, you may have 50 nodes in session - but only for a
minute.  60 seconds later 8 of them are done; two minutes later 25 of
the are done.  So there's a spike of activity that you'd miss, if you
only took a reading once every five minuntes.

What good is this detail?  Well, when you look at a night's worth, you
might see that there's a spike at 8PM, which is mostly done by 8:30.
Then there's another spike at 10PM.  But from 8:30 to 10:00 PM, nothing
much is happening.  So you can see that it might be smart to move your
10 PM job up to 8:30, and squeeze your backups into a smaller window.

---------------------------------
Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf 
> Of Niklas Lundstrom
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:42 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: how many active session?
>
>
> Hello
>
> The TSM Manager can provide you with this and much more. There is a 
> free 30day  trialversion to download at www.tsmmanager.com I think the

> product is very good
>
> Regards
> Niklas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:Matt.Cooper AT AMGREETINGS DOT COM]
> Sent: den 16 oktober 2002 13:31
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: how many active session?
>
>
> Does anyone know of a way to track the number of active sessions 
> overnight. I know you can schedule re-occurring QUERY SESSIONs and 
> then
> count them.   I
> want to just get the number of active sessions say every 15, 30 or 60
> minutes.   I have to find the best place to move some backups but I
don't
> have way of tracking this.
>
> Would that TSM MANGER product provide this?
> Thanks
> Matt
>