Vaulting                                   
Backupset generation               
Alert/Reporting                         
Data gathering                          
Manual operations                     
Utilities                                    
Display functions                      
Report functions          
Web Access          

Vaulting

The vaulting function of TSMManager is a complete replacement for Tivoli's DRM feature. 
It will handle everything necessary with regard to moving tapes out of libraries, producing pull-lists for operators, returning volumes and checking them in to libraries. Everything runs scheduled and without manual intervention. (Except for the physical movement of volumes, of course)
It will handle:  

• Copypool volumes
  
• Primary pool volumes
  
• Database backups, both full/incr and snapshot   
  
• Backupsets

 

It will also generate a recovery plan with all needed support files and let you store it in a safe place in case your TSM server dies and needs to be rebuilt.

Backupset generation

If you think about replacing your monthly archives with backupsets, then it is very easy with this function. It will control retention, scheduling and use parallel streams to generate backupsets from the nodes you choose.

Alert/Reporting

• Send a daily e-mail notification informing you of exception conditions in your TSM server.
  
• Show a visual indication of the servers availability, updated every 2 minutes.
  
• Send you an e-mail immediately if error messages occur.   

Data gathering

The collector collects 2 types of data :

A 7 day statistic with measurements taken every 15 minutes that shows :

• Diskpool usage
  
• Number of running sessions
  
• Log usage

A 365 day statistic with measurements taken every 24 hours that shows :

• Database usage
  
• Total data amount stored
  
• Total data amount stored per tapepool
  
• Total data amount stored per node
  
• Schedule success rates
  
• Occupancy for each node
  
• Data amount backed up daily per node   
  
• Number of files backed up daily per node   
  
• Elapse time for daily backup per node
  
• Network transfer rate per node during backupTotal number   of volumes used
  
• Number of volumes used per tapepool
  
• Daily total data amount backed up
  
• Daily total data amount archived
  
• Daily total data amount restored

A summary of the 365 day statistics across all servers

With these functions you can see the trends of all your servers in a single view

Manual operations   

• An administrative client type of interface
  
• Console mode operation, showing you what happens right   now.
  
• Show outstanding requests

Utilities

• An editor for client option sets
  
• An editor for server scripts
  
• Checkin/checkout control
  
• Labeling control
  
• Auditing control

Display and control functions 

• A graphical overview of the timing aspects of your   client and administrative schedules.
  
• A graphical overview over your drive usage.
  
• How much data was transferred during the last 24 hours.   
  
• How much space is taken up by each node.
  
• A summary of all data involving a certain node.   
  
• On which volumes a node has its data.
  
• Status of all volumes
  
• Warning window with all abnormal conditions
  
• Graphic overview of the configuration of your TSM   servers
  
• and lots of other views.

Reports

• Printed reports showing all collected data either as   text, graphs or both

Web access function

There are 2 types of Web access:

 

1. Access for TSM administrators that need a quick status display or access to the vaulting functions from a web browser.
2. Access for users that need the backup status for their servers, but who are not allowed to access the TSM server itself.

 

Our products include software to handle Network Backup/Restore, File Transfer, and Transaction Switching, as well as a specialized interface to ADSM / TSM servers for users of Tandem fault tolerant systems.