Hi Lawrence,

TSM Operational Reporting is, in itself, self-contained. No
DB2/Oracle/obscure-COTS/Tivoli Framework required, all you need is a TSM
Server somewhere to point it at. It's a doddle to install, no really, it
is. From double clicking the install file to getting some genuinely
useful reports in less than 15 minutes.

In terms of limitations, I think I read somewhere that as of the GA
release, you cannot actually install TSM Operational Reporting on a TSM
Server - it has to be a separate box somewhere, and it has to be
installed in a Windows 2000 or above server (i.e. not NT4). I have it
running on a very low powered workstation at the moment, and it does its
job just fine.

What you refer to below is an 'extra', in that if you *want* you can
output logs to a logfile, and have a Tivoli Logfile Adapter scrape the
log and forward on any pertinent events (such as tape drives going
offline, client schedules missed etc) onto a TEC console should you so
wish. Certainly not a prerequisite.

As for location, you can download the latest GA version (v. 5.2.2.0)
from :

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

where you'll see the, okay, slightly non-immediately-obviously-named
file TSMCON5220_WIN.EXE which is about 10MB and is all you'll need. This
file is also available on the Windows TSM Server CD, I just don't
remember where or how off the top of my head.

Hope that helps people - seems to have been a little confusion over the
product in the past. I have it reporting on 8 TSM servers at the moment,
one of it's main uses is to run some custom SQL reports and dump these
out to a web server so that our TSM backup 'customers' can see for
themselves that their precious servers did (or didn't...) backup up
overnight. This product is *so* much better than TDS for SMA, which was,
for me, a nightmare in so many senses.

 
David McClelland           
Tivoli Certified Consultant        
Global Management Systems          
Reuters    
85 Fleet Street    
London EC4P 4AJ    
           
E-mail  david.mcclelland AT reuters DOT com       

-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:Larry_Clark AT THRUWAY.STATE.NY DOT US] 
Sent: 19 February 2004 14:02
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING


You may not want to bother.  Looking at the docs under the latest
directory, it appears as though the  TSM operational reporting tool is
not self-contained. As in the previous tools offered, it requires
another non-TSM Tivoli product to work. I may be wrong. Can someone
clarify?

Installation and configuration
The following section goes through installation and configuration of the
logfile adapter and configuration of TEC.  To configure TEC alerting,
the Tivoli Logfile adapter for Windows 2000 must be installed on the
Windows Server where Operational Reporting is installed.  This is not
supplied with TSM and can be found on the TEC installation CDs. This
should be installed as per the Tivoli installation instructions for a
Tivoli managed host (if a Tivoli end-point is installed) or a non-TME
managed host.  The instructions included here assume that the Windows
Server running Operational Reporting does not have a Tivoli End-Point
installed.  The sample files supplied are for the TEC 3.8 version of the
logfile adapter and assume a TEC 3.8 console.


>>> goran.k AT VIP DOT HR 2/19/2004 8:51:11 AM >>>
thanks, i know that but someone has said that it comes with TSM 5.2 ...
where ? on CD's ?

g.


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To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING


>
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/techprev/ts
mopreport/latest/

>
> --- goran <goran.k AT VIP DOT HR> wrote:
> > hi to all ...
> >
> > if someone can explain this to me, operational
> > reporting comes with tsm 5.2
> > ? what means that "comes with", where can i find it
> > ?
> >
> > thanks
>
>
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