-- snip -- > Responses mentioned the following products: > Tivoli Omegamon XE for Storage, Tivoli Storage Optimizer, CA-Vantage > Storage Resource Manager, BETA85, DTS, Mainstar products... > > It raises a question: what are the needs ? > IMHO those products are quite different, they address different issues. > > Last but not least: is ANY product really needed ? Right!, that was my first reaction too. What are your problems and do you need to solve them with costly softwaretools and manpower or could it be more costefficient to add a couple of TB's to the SMS pool(s) and let SMS manage the whole lot? -- snip --
If all you want to manage is x37 Abends, then I agree. But these tools do much more than that. Let me give you an example of what CA-Vantage can do (I'm NOT on the CA payroll by the way!) Pool monitoring (define your own filters and break down the usage for each department - DASD or TAPE). Trend this data (eg. look at DASD growth over the last past years - broken down into which ever categories you want). Notification when certain events occur (eg. GDPS Primary volume no longer in PPRC Duplex, or HSM CDS backup took longer than xx minutes to complete). Take what ever action you deem appropriate (simple Email, or MVS commands, ..) Examine HSM migration and report on thrashing between lvl0 and ML0 Automatically build (and submit) jobs to correct the management classes of certain categories of data sets. the list goes on. A very powerful product. The only tool I've worked with is CA-Vantage, so I can't speak for any of the others, but I suspect that they all have their selling points. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
