Another product to look at:  www.aptare.com

You can't tell a lot from their website, but they do a very good web demo if
you contact them.


On 1/29/08, Howard Coles <Howard.Coles AT ardenthealth DOT com> wrote:
>
> You should also look into Servergraph, which can send email alerts when
> things like this go wrong.  I have benefited from those messages on more
> than one occasion.  A problem we had recently with a few drives was that
> they would just lock up.  The Library would think they were busy, but no
> data would go in or out, and eventually TSM would time out on the drive.
>
>
>
> See Ya'
> Howard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Stephen Mackereth
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:11 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting
>
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> The 3584 can send snmp traps, this is configured via the specialist gui.
> I wrote a few scripts to query TSM, ie number of drives offline, number
> of paths offline
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephen.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Nicholas Rodolfich
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 7:31 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting
>
> Hello All,
>
> Thanks for your help!!
>
> We are running TSM 5.3.4 with a IBM 3584 library. Our library has not
> exactly been the Pinnacle of MTBF. All the drives have been replaced,
> some more than once and the medium changer has been replaced twice. All
> of this since April 2007.
>
> The medium changer died this past Friday night and no one caught it
> until the next day. Our DBA has made a big stink about monitoring TSM
> and alerting when something is wrong. The DBA and another admin think
> they can write some code to do this "alerting" on the 8493E message in
> the activity log.
>
> My question is: What tools are you folks using to monitor TSM and alert
> you to any problems.
>
> Nicholas
>
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