Hi Lawrence, TSM Operational Reporting is, in itself, self-contained. No DB2/Oracle/obscure-COTS/Tivoli Framework required, all you need is a TSM Server somewhere to point it at. It's a doddle to install, no really, it is. From double clicking the install file to getting some genuinely useful reports in less than 15 minutes.
In terms of limitations, I think I read somewhere that as of the GA release, you cannot actually install TSM Operational Reporting on a TSM Server - it has to be a separate box somewhere, and it has to be installed in a Windows 2000 or above server (i.e. not NT4). I have it running on a very low powered workstation at the moment, and it does its job just fine. What you refer to below is an 'extra', in that if you *want* you can output logs to a logfile, and have a Tivoli Logfile Adapter scrape the log and forward on any pertinent events (such as tape drives going offline, client schedules missed etc) onto a TEC console should you so wish. Certainly not a prerequisite. As for location, you can download the latest GA version (v. 5.2.2.0) from : ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintena nce/server/v5r2/WIN/LATEST/ where you'll see the, okay, slightly non-immediately-obviously-named file TSMCON5220_WIN.EXE which is about 10MB and is all you'll need. This file is also available on the Windows TSM Server CD, I just don't remember where or how off the top of my head. Hope that helps people - seems to have been a little confusion over the product in the past. I have it reporting on 8 TSM servers at the moment, one of it's main uses is to run some custom SQL reports and dump these out to a web server so that our TSM backup 'customers' can see for themselves that their precious servers did (or didn't...) backup up overnight. This product is *so* much better than TDS for SMA, which was, for me, a nightmare in so many senses. David McClelland Tivoli Certified Consultant Global Management Systems Reuters 85 Fleet Street London EC4P 4AJ E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 February 2004 14:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING You may not want to bother. Looking at the docs under the latest directory, it appears as though the TSM operational reporting tool is not self-contained. As in the previous tools offered, it requires another non-TSM Tivoli product to work. I may be wrong. Can someone clarify? Installation and configuration The following section goes through installation and configuration of the logfile adapter and configuration of TEC. To configure TEC alerting, the Tivoli Logfile adapter for Windows 2000 must be installed on the Windows Server where Operational Reporting is installed. This is not supplied with TSM and can be found on the TEC installation CDs. This should be installed as per the Tivoli installation instructions for a Tivoli managed host (if a Tivoli end-point is installed) or a non-TME managed host. The instructions included here assume that the Windows Server running Operational Reporting does not have a Tivoli End-Point installed. The sample files supplied are for the TEC 3.8 version of the logfile adapter and assume a TEC 3.8 console. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/19/2004 8:51:11 AM >>> thanks, i know that but someone has said that it comes with TSM 5.2 ... where ? on CD's ? g. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:41 PM Subject: Re: TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/techprev/ts mopreport/latest/ > > --- goran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi to all ... > > > > if someone can explain this to me, operational > > reporting comes with tsm 5.2 > > ? what means that "comes with", where can i find it > > ? > > > > thanks > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
