I'm in the same boat as you, Nick. We've tried out DPA and now we're trying
TSM monitoring. So far TSM Monitoring is much more extensible out of the box,
but that's not saying much. I ended up having to correct a bunch of scripts in
the installation tree for the History and Pruning agent to correctly load the
tables to the WAREHOUS table. Further, I had to edit some DB2 parameters to
get the agents to connect correctly (my db2 ports were not the default for some
reason). It wasn't pretty. Of course I hacked this thing all together in one
day and I didn't write any of it down.
At any rate, I found some technotes/presentations, but no redbooks on getting
TSM Monitoring to do 'stuff', i.e. emailing alerts. Simple stuff that IBM
loves to turn into rocket science. All-in-all though, there's promise in what
TSM monitoring and reporting can do. Just not very much of it is done. The
tables are easily viewable and not too difficult to understand to create
reports, but I'm not a COGNOS developer, so it's taking time to learn how to do
fancy reports.
I would recommend that IBM port a few reports that were standard in TSM
Operational Reporting, and port some of the automatic alerts that were in TSM
OR. If that had been available out of the box, I'd have it in production in no
time. Make them available here:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Report%20Sharing%20Repository
Right now, the repository is empty. Anyone else see anything different?
Anywhoo.. a lot of the stuff I reference above can be found within the wiki:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Tivoli%20Monitoring%20for%20Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager
You can get Reporting to email reports to you: that works and it's pretty neat.
You can get Monitoring to email monitoring alerts to you: tried, but hasn't
worked for me yet.
Sergio
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Nick Laflamme
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 7:39 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Tivoli Monitoring for TSM?
I'm not sure if I'm late to the show or a relatively early adapter, but I have
to ask:
Does anyone have a starter kit for extending Tivoli Monitoring for TSM beyond
the initial configuration?
We're doing a proof-of-concept with it now, trying to see what it gives us
compared to what we have with Data Protection Advisor, which isn't at all
TSM-centric. I'm 99% sure I should be able to cobble together new views and new
elements (graphs? tables? alerts?) if I dig into enough non-TSM Tivoli
information centers, such as Tivoli Enterprise Portal and Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring or whatever TEMS stands for, but if I can find a map of where the
first five things I need are, I'd be very grateful.
Alternately, would anyone be interested in a "Intro to Hacking Tivoli
Monitoring for TSM" or "Why Tivoli Monitoring for TSM Comes with Source Code"
if I get very far?
Am I repeating work already done for some Redpiece? (If so, why hasn't my
favorite IBMer mentioned that Redpiece to me?) (And why aren't there any
Redpieces that match the keyword "TSM" after 2008?)
Nick
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