TSM ICON on Windows Taskbar

[Pankaj]

We are backing up about 2500 Windows (W2k, XP) Desktops using TSM 5.2.



Challenge is that often a number of desktops fail backup and one has to physically investigate the reasons for failure.



As our users are average IT literate and hence we were looking at the option of having an ICON on the Windows Task Bar that indicates whether the TSM service is running or not.



I will greatly appreciate if someone can advise us whether this is possible and if so, how?



Regards

 

[zenu]

Hi Pankaj,



You could write something in c+, vb, etc to do what you are asking. However, while you are doing that here is a simple way to check the service on user login. This script will display a message for the user on login, if the Tsm scheduler service does not exist nor started.



1, Create a script, say QTsmService.bat.

2, Copy the folloing lines into it and change the TSMDir, TSMService, and Message variables to fit your environment.

3, Place a shortcut to the script in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\





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@Echo Off

Set TSMDir=D:\Sysmgmt\TSM\baclient

Set TSMService="TSM Scheduler"

Set Message=NOTE: The TSM Scheduler service is not started!!

Pushd %TSMDir%



dsmcutil q /name:%TSMService% > QTSMService.log

findstr /i "Started" QTSMService.log



If %errorlevel% EQU 1 GoTo AllertUser



:AllertUser

net send %computername% %Message%



exit

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Hope this helps,



Zenu