Hello,

We have not used it yet (bringing in a demo) but there is a product called
Bocada that might fit your needs - www.bocada.com

Sean McNamara
Senior Analyst
PJM Interconnection, LLC
955 Jefferson Avenue
Norristown, PA  19403
P-610-666-4206
F-610-666-4285


-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Stewart [mailto:curtis.stewart AT ATTBI DOT COM]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Comments on Server Graph or other like utilities


Hello List:

I administer a rather large TSM system in the financial industry. We are
considering the implementation of Server Graph for monitoring our multiple TSM
servers located all over the country (USA). I'm interested in any experiences
the members of this list may have with this product, good and bad. Also, are
there any other competing products that, in your experience, work better?

We are looking for a tool that we can use from a central server that provides
TSM monitoring / Alerting, as well as reporting, and analysis information.
Ultimately, we'd like to be able to turn over the day to day TSM stuff
(restores, restarting / troubleshooting hung backups and other basic tasks) to
our 24x7 operations team so we can concentrate on new TSM implementations,
performance tuning etc... We'd like a tool that will allow us to do both.
Essentially we want to automate notification of our operations team when
something goes wrong, as well as use the tool for in depth reporting and
analysis of our site. We understand we could accomplish this will a bunch of
shell or Perl scripts, but we are looking for something that's already put
together and just works. We don't have the time to reinvent the wheel here.

Our company uses OpenView and we will need to tie into this system as tightly as
possible. I understand that Server Graph claims to integrate easily with
OpenView. Do any of you have any experience with this application? If so, will
you please share your experiences?

Curtis Stewart
TSM Administrator