Thanks again for all the great suggestions, I wanted to report back on what we decided on for posterity. We did look into TSM Explorer, Predatar, and Bocada, which were all very compelling though none of them ended up being exactly what we were looking for. We ended up rolling our own monitoring/billing by scraping various TSM database tables into a PostgreSQL database, annotating the rows with timestamps and then building some queries on top of that to get the data we need.
For real-time alerting, we're continuing to use Operations Center since it is obviously tailor-made for it. On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:25:30AM +0000, Del Hoobler wrote: > Please have a look at Predatar. I think you will find that it does all of > this very nicely. > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://predatar.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hnsP2aYQUVb_XNgO03KUsoGBM5oj2LJldKY_BScnNQ36zL4aJsC8ftETmrbtxf-aUwJNaoCm0b1_PmU$ > > You can also purchase Predatar through an IBM part number if that is > desirable. > > You also can get great cyber recovery testing too. > > Thank you, > > > Del Hoobler > IBM > Principal Storage Sales Specialist - Storage for Data Resilience > > ________________________________ > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> on behalf of Ashish > Sharma <ashishsharm...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 6:21 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Operations Center questions > > Hi, > > Do you have any rough idea about its pricing? > > Regards > Ashish > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 2:17???PM Bruno Friess <bfri...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Hi Skylar, > > > > Have you tried Backup Eagle from SchmitzRZ, see > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.backup-eagle.com__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hnsP2aYQUVb_XNgO03KUsoGBM5oj2LJldKY_BScnNQ36zL4aJsC8ftETmrbtxf-aUwJNaoCm6wSrK_Y$ > > > > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.backup-eagle.com__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hnsP2aYQUVb_XNgO03KUsoGBM5oj2LJldKY_BScnNQ36zL4aJsC8ftETmrbtxf-aUwJNaoCm6wSrK_Y$ > > > < > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.backup-eagle.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hnsP2aYQUVb_XNgO03KUsoGBM5oj2LJldKY_BScnNQ36zL4aJsC8ftETmrbtxf-aUwJNaoCmqeiSrag$ > > >. > > It is not an admin tool like TSMManager, but has a lot of graphs and > > functions which you know from ServerGraph. > > They offer a free PoC for their software. > > > > Bruno Friess > > bfri...@gmx.de > > > > > > > > > Am 18.03.2025 um 23:23 schrieb Skylar Thompson <skyl...@uw.edu>: > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm trying out some Servergraph replacements, and have just gotten around > > > to trying the Operations Center. I have some questions that I haven't > > been > > > able to glean from the docs or from my own poking around: > > > > > > 1. Is it possible to get trend information by node or policy domain? > > > There's a 2-week per-node of ingested data by day that I found, but I'm > > not > > > seeing anything beyond that. > > > > > > 2. Is it possible to get media utilization by library over time? I can > > find > > > the instantaneous scratch tape availability but haven't been to get > > > historical information for either used media, or available slots. > > > > > > 3. Is it possible to alert on filespaces that have missed their backups > > by > > > n days, modified by some table that will either exclude filespaces > > entirely > > > or change the days threshold? I know I could do this with a custom SQL > > > query feeding into a daily report, but I'd rather not be tweaking a query > > > manually whenever I want to add an override... > > > > > > 4. Is it possible to aggregate query output across multiple SP servers? > > > > > > 5. Is it possible to send report output to a file rather than a HTML > > email > > > attachment? > > > > > > I'm suspecting the answers are "no" but am hoping to be proven wrong. :) > > > > > > -- > > > -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) > > > -- Genome Sciences Department (UW Medicine), System Administrator > > > -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 > > > -- Pronouns: They/Them > > -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department (UW Medicine), System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- Pronouns: They/Them
