I got an off-line response that there's also a "System Management Central" Wiki 
developers page on IBM's site that is supposed to have helpful articles on 
Tivoli Monitoring for TSM. I haven't dove into that yet, nor have I gone off to 
the Cognos Info Center to figure out how I'm going to write my reports. I'm 
still sticking my nose in different corners looking for an especially 
encouraging trail of breadcrumbs before starting to map it out myself. 

I give DPA credit for reporting on our EMC storage hardware as well as they 
report on our TSM instances, but since our TSM instances are the more complex 
pieces, if I can get better insights and automation for TSM itself, like an 
easy way to list locked administrators, we might split the load between the two 
products. 

Nick

On Feb 18, 2013, at 3:55 PM, "Sergio O. Fuentes" <sfuentes AT UMD DOT EDU> 
wrote:

> 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