>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:15:49 -0400, Anker Lerret <ADSM-L AT LERRET DOT US> 
>> said:


> What are folks using to do TSM trending?

I use R.

http://open-systems.ufl.edu/reports/tsm/graphs/ALL.html

It's clickable!

[...]

> I've found that TSM's own tools (the TSM web GUI and that ghastly
> thing that's replaced it in TSM 5.3) give a better view of the trees
> than the forest.  They're OK for day-to-day tasks, but not for
> trending.

I'll agree, but I'll also note that many of your questions really are
trees questions.  For example, peak drive usage really isn't smooth;
it's instantaneous.  Why did X change on date D is even tighter than
tree; branch perhaps, or twig.

> I would just as soon write Perl scripts to distill the logs, but my
> management would rather have me do other things, particularly if
> there's a canned answer out there.

Expect that, if you get a can of answers, you will also get a can of
procedures and ideology with them, which may not be compatible with
yours.  This is not necessarily a bad thing; but I would not expect to
get a can of answers that fit your site as it happens to exist now.


- Allen S. Rout