IBM Protectier TS7650 active monitoring...

[jharris]

Is anyone actively monitoring / recording usage history of their TS7650 VTL's?

I want to setup a script/snmp process to actively probe the appliance and send me an alert (or to TEC/OMNIBUS) when our TS7650 gets less that 200GB of real space free.

The Redbooks only show monitoring/alerting via PTManager and a litte bit of command line stuff to export to .xml.

I can right my own batch script, but thought there might be a better enterprise approach.

 

[lapfrank]

I was wondering the exact same thing this week. I'm trying to actively monitor both of my ProtecTIER and I didn't find much information, except using the ptcli or ptmon tools, and then trying to build a xslt file to create a readable report from those XML files.. I wished IBM would give us the xslt file, or permit the tool to export the data in a different format than XML.