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Laura's email address is: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: assessing the health TSM installation On Mar 13, 2010, at 8:47 PM, yoda woya wrote: > if I were to be looking to assess the health of TSM, what would be > the top > things to look for With solid planning and serious hardware allocation, followed by a regimen of good administration, you should have a solid system. The Performance Tuning Guide and Problem Determination Guide will give you a good sense of things to watch for. Most problems result from hardware failures and client administrators not being as diligent with their end of things (e.g., runaway backups, arbitrarily renaming file systems, deficient client environment planning and administration). You must regularly watch the server, to at least have a sense of how things seem when all is well, to know right away when things are not okay ("knowing the pulse of the system"). Running out of scratches is a cardinal sin of failed server administration, as is not noticing that TSM db backups are not happening. It's not hard to develop a basic TSM health monitor based upon dsmadmc, and there are commercial packages to do a thorough job of it. Richard Sims
