Need help with Operational Report Driver 7

[nltinc]

Hi, All



I'm new to the TSM. We had been running with TSM about 3 months now. And I just finish getting the TSM advance trainning. One of the tool that they talk about as this Operational Report Driver 7. The training didn't go into detail about this tool. I as wonder if anyone else is using this tool and if they can tell more detail about it and how to use. Maybe list some of the scripts that they use daily with the tool on the TSM servers. And now to run it. For the training it sound like a great tool to use without spend money on a third party software. Always thank you in advance. This forum is very useful for people like me just getting start use TSM.



Thanks

 

[pconway]

Below is some information on the TSM Operational Reporting tool that I received from IBM. I am currently running version 5.2.2.3 and it has been running just fine.







Here is some information on the GA version. There is a migration tool which should be used, ref the migration tool readme for detailed instructions, to do the migration.



Here is some download information for TSM operational reporting.



Documentation:



Note that the PowerPoint presentation (same one that's been available)

located with the migration tool ref below is still a good source of

info. The readme that goes with the 5.2.2 (tsmrept_readme.txt)

version is a good source and so is the online help that goes with the

migration tool - has some useful QA's. Operational reporting is also

covered in the quick start and admin guide for 52.2 available at:



http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/IBMTivoliStorageManagerforWindows5.2.2.html



Download Information:



Operational reporting is included with TSM 5.2.2 as part of the

Windows TSM server packaging. You can get it via the tivoli web site

under the 5.2.2 windows downloads or directly from the ftp site at:



ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/server/v5r2/WIN/LATEST/



The standalone operational reporting package is named

tsmcon5220_win.exe. It is also included in the TSM Windows server and

Windows storage agent packages. If operational reporting is to run on

the same machine as a TSM Windows server or storage agent you'll need

to upgrade the server or storage agent to 5.2.2 as (unlike the beta)

the standalone version can't be installed on the same machine as a TSM

server or storage agent. If you want to install operational reporting

on any other windows machine you should install the standalone version.



NOTE: The TSM 5.2.2.2 patch includes fixes a nested HTML table problem,

color coding in client schedule section, and text formatting issues. You

may want to apply this patch or just install it to begin with.



IC38910 TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING PRODUCES NESTED TABLES IN HTML IF

- IC38910 5698ISMSV 52W

IC38913 TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING TEXT FORMATTING ISSUES.

- IC38913 5698ISMSV 52W



ftp://serviceboulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/NT/5.2.2.2/



Migration:



If you have been using the beta or technology preview version of

operational reporting there is a migration tool available at the

following location.



ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/techprev/tsmopreport/latest/



The migration package is named tsmmigrate.exe and there is a

readme_migrate.txt file there too that describes how to get started

When you start the migration tool a detailed help file will be

displayed that covers details as well as some common questions and

answers - including a good description of using the windows scheduler

to get better scheduling granularity.



Let me know if you need more info.



Best Regards,



Mike Collins



Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Reporting Team

[email protected]