TSM Studio Server

People who use the IBM’s popular Tivoli Storage Manager, currently known as Spectrum Protect, could require a solution for managing their server environment. TSM Studio Server is an application that was created in order to provide a robust and reliable solution for handling the TSM servers.

Through its solid integration with the operating system, the application will provide users with an efficient way of monitoring their TSM servers. It will allow them to observe important performance indicators for the storage manager and generate reports about their server environments.

The application will require a database component and it will support both the Microsoft SQL Server or  MySQL software packages, onto which it will store all the collected data. Based on the functionality of the selected database management system, the utility will allow users to schedule various TSM SQL queries, which can be used later on to automatically generate custom reports. The reports can be published in PDF, CSV, Excel or image formats, in accordance with users’ requirements.

Alerting for the different TSM specific events is available and people can choose for the application to notify them in realtime, by email, SNMP, Inbuilt Alerts Console or trigger scripting. Those who rely on the application’s documentation will be happy to know that they will benefit from a comprehensive, inbuilt documentation library.

Group reporting is also possible and the application will provide a client node deletion workflow. Accompanying the monitoring features, are an extensive collection of over 100 predefined datviews, charts and diagram templates that can be used in order to shape the required reports to users’ specifications.