Hi Gill, I am not sure what OS you are running TSM on but I am running mine
on Solaris and I have a cron job set up to run every morning at 6:00. The
script in the cron job is as follows:

echo "****** TSM Backup Report ******" > /usr/local/adsm/log
echo For 'date' >> /usr/local/adsm/log
echo "The following is the status of last night's backups\n" >>
/usr/local/adsm/log
dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=admin "q event * * begindate=-1 >>
/usr/local/adsm/log"
mailx -s "TSM_Report" yourname AT email DOT com< /usr/local/adsm/log


That is pretty much it. Of coarse, you will need to change the id and pa
from admin to a real admin name and password on your system and replace
yourname AT email DOT com with your email address. You can also add as many 
email
addresses that you want so other people can receive the email. Basically
this job creates a file called 'log' within the /usr/local/adsm directory,
then it mails that file to the recipients. I hope this helps.

Dwight Wood

From: "Gill, Geoffrey L." <GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Automated monitoring of backup
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:12:05 -0700

To all,

I'm wondering how others are monitoring their nightly backups for
completion. Currently our operations people use the web interface to
monitor
backups. I've been asked to find a way to help work this out so information
is fed somewhere from somewhere automatically. I am not a programmer or dba
so my expertise is limited, actually probably non existent, as it relates
to
making this happen on my own.

Do any of you have some suggestions as to how to make this work? Can you
pass along any scripts that would help me? Would this be done from the TSM
server and sent out or is it possible to run this from one computer by
pulling the data from TSM and sending it to a different computer?

If I have to re-invent the wheel it probably won't come out round.....
Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

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