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1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Monitoring

1. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

Tivoli Service Request Manager

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

   This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for OS/390

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

IBM Log Analysis Reports for Tivoli Common Reporting

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management

1. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

Maximo for Nuclear Power

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

   This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

Maximo Integration Adapter

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database

1. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

   While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

Maximo Adapter for Real-time Asset Locator

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Basic Edition for System Z

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Maximo Asset Management

1. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

2. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

   The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

5. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

   This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Agent

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

   This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition

1. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

Tivoli OMEGAMON for VM

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

IBM Security zSecure Suite

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

IBM CloudBurst for Power Systems

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

IBM System Storage Productivity Center

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Maximo Mobile Asset Manager

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for OS/390 USS

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Storage Manager

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

   This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

5. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

   This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

6. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

   Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

   Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

8. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

   The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

9. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

   Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

11. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

15. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

16. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

18. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

19. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli AF/OPERATOR

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Monitoring for IBM Cloud Services

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli IntelliWatch Pinnacle for UNIX

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition

1. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

   This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Data Base PRPQ

1. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

   While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Workload Scheduler distributed - Agent for z/OS

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Storage Network Manager

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System Z

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

IBM CloudBurst for System x

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager

1. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager v6.3: Overview of the Cognos Data Model

   Tivoli Storage Manager (from now on referred to as TSM) includes within it, the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, which in itself is a purchasable product sold by the IBM software division. Cognos is more than just a reporting tool, it is a business intelligence offering giving the customer real information manipulation and analysis capabilities normally not available in a storage management solution like TSM. The key to the TSM Cognos offering is the data model developed by the Tivoli Storage man

2. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Gateway Proxy Deepdive

   Typically, with most software (including IBM software), detailed documentation for each possible configuration is not provided with the original documentation. This document hopes to take a specific example of the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways’ configuration and its behavior in detail. Included will be a diagram that shows both physical connections and specific TCPIP information (listening ports and connection details). Next is a close look at how the ITM 6.1 Firewall Gateways define these components and roles

3. Tivoli Field Guide - Backup and Restore of eDirectory with TSM

   The intent of this document is to help in the process of building a backup solution by presenting several tools, techniques, and scenarios. This document is intended for professionals with a working knowledge of eDirectory and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. In the past Novell eDirectory was run on Novell NetWare as Novell Directory Services (NDS). Backup was fully handled by the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client. It would run up and down the tree reading, and backing up, each object separately. Sin

4. Tivoli Field Guide - Connecting Maximo TPAE to LDAP

   This document describes multiple alternatives about the connection between Maximo TPAE (Tivoli Process Automation Engine) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

5. Tivoli Field Guide - An Example of How to Publish a Field Guide

   This is the area that will contain a brief summary of the document. You can use the summary that the writer includes at the beginning of the document. However, you may need to make cuts, so be sure to go back and read it to make sure it is clear.

6. Tivoli Field Guide -- Archiving File Data to the IBM Tivoli Information Archive Using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC)

   This paper describes the implementation on a Unix environment, and the process has been demonstrated on Linux, AIX and Solaris fileservers. The archive script was written in Perl, and therefore installation of Perl is a pre-requisite for the example script. It is possible to port the script to other languages if desired, but this is outside the scope of this paper.

7. Tivoli Field Guide - Performance of GPFS/HSM - Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Managment: Part 1: Automigration

   The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management client for UNIX and Linux (the HSM client) migrates files from local file systems to distributed storage and can then recall the files either automatically or selectively. Migrating files to storage frees space for new data on local file systems and takes advantage of lower-cost storage resources that are available in the network environment. This paper is arranged in four sections: · Section 1 gives a brief overview of the purpose, content, and structure

8. Tivoli Field Guide - BIRT for Tivoli Process Automation Engine

   The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo developer to install and modify existing report source code using the BIRT tool in the Eclipse framework. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is intended to supplement that documentation and re-enforce critical points in that documentation. Further, this guide is not intended as educational material per-se, but rather as insight into the implementation and practice of using the BIRT tool in the Maximo framework only.

9. Tivoli Field Guide - TSM for Space Management for UNIX-GPFS Integration

   This article series covers the integrated functionality of the IBM products GPFS and TSM for Space Management (HSM). This first part deals with the GPFS policy-based theshold migration in detail with all involved components on the GPFS and the TSM HSM side, as well as the setup and configuration of such an environment for the different GPFS and TSM for Space Management versions. The explained approach of a policy-based threshold migration can be used in very large storage installations, instead of the clas

10. Tivoli Field Guide - Linux Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Configuration

    This document is intended to describe the configuration steps required for the Linux Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client support for FastBack. This paper describes how Release 6.1.3.1 and subsequent releases of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can be integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a cost-effective solution for short-term data recovery requirements and long-term data retention requirements for Linux file servers.

11. Tivoli Field Guide - Asset Upload and Recon

    This document gives an in-depth look at the procedure that is used to import and export assets using TSRM (Tivoli Service Request Manager) and/or TAMIT (Tivoli Asset Management for IT). It discusses steps to follow when setting up an initial data load for your IT asset management environment. The document also explains the procedure for setting up asset reconciliation. Reconciliation is important for financial and compliance management, as well as for support.

12. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

    This field guide is intended for storage administrators and skilled technical support personnel who need to recover Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems from a catastrophic system or hardware failure. The guide assumes technical proficiency with installation, configuration, and use of Windows systems with the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client.

13. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager and Localization: Localization Considerations Using the Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client in the context of localization and addresses the three central issues that should most concern a storage administrator in this context: backup, recovery, and error reporting. Deployed correctly, the Backup-Archive Client will provide desired protection. The Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client Version 5.4 and above can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or

14. Tivoli Field Guide - Maximo Base 7.1 Integration Series

    The purpose of this document is to explain concepts and technical details about the concepts presented across several common products, including IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM), IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Manager (CCMDB), and other products relying on the common Maximo-based functionality, referred to in this document as Maximo. This document is also intended to discuss the linkage between these concepts and integration with an LDAP environmen

15. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Collector Developer Guide

    This document provides the information necessary to enable the development of IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM Collectors. Collectors are the solution to the problem of how to import data from an external data source into ITNM at a level equivalent to the standard SNMP based agents. The Collector system presents a clearly defined XML interface into ITNM which allows integrations without requiring changes to the core ITNM product.

16. Tivoli Field Guide - Services Ready Guide for Nuclear Industry Solution, Release 7.1

    This Guide is meant to support a PS Consultant during the implementation project life-cycle, right from initial planning on through to configuration. It will not tell you what to do, but will provide background information and insight that can be combined with the knowledge of the Customer project and MAXIMO to effectively implement the NuclearIS in an efficient manner. Information provided in this document is not meant to replace any standard documentation typically provided with the software (e.g. end-us

17. Tivoli Field Guide - Data Protection for Domino Support for Domino 8.5

    Data Protection for Domino provides a full capacity to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NSF and NTF databases and transaction logs either offline or online. This document provides an overview of the Data Protection for Domino product and describes the additional steps necessary to backup and restore Domino 8.5 NLO files.

18. Tivoli Field Guide - Tips for Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) performance tuning and troubleshooting are complicated due to the many factors that are involved and yet are highly crucial to leveraging customer satisfaction into a wider acceptance and use of TSM products. This paper is meant to provide insight into the TSM performance configuration and troubleshooting. We introduce topics such as optimizing configuration, tuning parameters, and finding performance bottlenecks, as well as a collection of performance tools including TSM instru

19. Tivoli Field Guide - CCMDB 7.1 Integration Series

    While this document was originally written after the emergence of the CCMDB product set, all these concepts apply equally across all Maximo-based technologies. This includes the rest of the ISM product set: TAMIT, TSRM, TRPM, TSAM, etc. Because CCMDB contains the added complication of TADDM and SSO for TADDM, we elected to focus this document on CCMDB, but the concepts apply equally across the entire portfolio. This document gives an in-depth look at the process and procedure to integrate IBM Tivoli CCMDB

20. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager API Sample Program

    The TSM API includes a series of sample programs that illustrate the use of all the API functions. Source codes and make files are provided for the host platform under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPSRC subdirectory, and, in the case of Windows, a pre-compiled dapismp.exe program is provided under the Tivoli/TSM/api/SAMPRUN subdirectory, as well. This paper is a guide to the API sample programs and a tutorial in the the use of the dapismp.exe sample program. Application architects preparing to design an API-based a

21. Tivoli Field Guide - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino to Backup DB2 enabled Notes Databases

    Release 5.4.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino (DP for Domino) added significant new support for Domino 8 and introduced a number of new commands and options. Some of the new commands and options apply to both NSF databases and DB2 enabled Notes databases, while others just apply to DB2 enabled Notes databases. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance using the DP for Domino to back up and restore DB2 enabled NSF databases.

22. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Integration with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

    Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is a complementary solution to IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files. As its name suggests, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous file-level data protection solution specifically designed for desktops, laptops and mobile office data protection. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack offers a complementary enterprise class CDP block-level solution for servers and applications, whether they are in the data center or in branch or re

23. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Storage Manager Client and UTF-8

    This paper discusses the Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client operation in environments with UTF-8 and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) encoded file names. Deployed correctly, the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux and UNIX Backup-Archive Client can be configured to properly protect all files regardless of their file name or the encoding used to represent the file name. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand UTF-8 and DBCS issues and the best way to achieve your desired res

24. Tivoli Field Guide - Mobile Maximo 6.4: Implementation Field Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to enable the Maximo practitioner to install and initially implement the Mobile Maximo product for IBM. Initial implementation considerations are covered as well as installation issues. This guide is not intended to replace any existing documentation. Rather, it is to supplement that documentation and enforce critical points in that documentation.

25. Tivoli Field Guide - Security in Base Services MX7.1: Approaches to Implementing Security on the Base Services Platform

    This document is designed to help implement security on the Base Services platform, (for Maximo EAM implementations read “maximo 7” for Base Services platform) given the new functionality and the added complexity that goes with this. The Base services documentation is also designed to give direction when implementing security in order to ensure that the approach to security is not piecemeal, which will result in a long and confused implementation. This document is not a substitute for the security documenta

26. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and Linux

    Our goal is to introduce a methodology for backing up and restoring UNIX and Linux data that resides in a cluster environment. Basic concepts of clustering and how Tivoli Storage Manager can be deployed in the cluster environment are introduced, and practical examples are given on how to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client and backup schedules. The migration procedure for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup -Archive client configurations that currently use clusternode option in AIX, HACMP

27. Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Design Abstraction for Service Management

    In this brief we answer the question of how to manage the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client environment based on several backup and recovery service requirement s. The method first identifies and classifies the client host type. Each host classification has a backup and recovery technology selection criteria matrix. The client host backup and recovery requirement and the host capacity are used to select the appropriate technology. This method significantly reduces the need for design discussions and effor

28. Tivoli Field Guide - Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client to Back Up and Restore the Novell Storage Services File System on Novell Linux OES

    The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system on the Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare 6.5 operating system. This file system is also available on SUSE Linux Open Enterprise Server (Linux OES) Release 9, Linux OES 2 on SLES 10 and above. The Novell NSS file system has some characteristics that differ from most UNIX file systems, and the Tivoli Storage Manager backup -archive client support for this file system has equivalent differences. The purpose of this paper is to provide

29. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

    An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o

30. Tivoli Field Guide - An Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Process

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a very flexible product that has a great breadth of functionality. It supports many sophisticated applications such as database backup, mail system backup, long-term archiving, content management and hierarchical storage management. The purpose of this field guide is to provide the concepts and operational processes that are necessary for a successful TSM backup solution. We will start with an overview of backup and recovery as a service to either internal or external

31. Tivoli Field Guide - A Brief Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture: TSM Design and Planning Best Practices

    In this Field Guide, we’ll explore best practices and recommendations for aligning expectations with actual performance of TSM. In other words, we’ll discuss what goes into a TSM architecture. We’ll start out with a discussion of what a TSM architecture is and the inputs that are needed to develop such an architecture. We’ll then move on to the outputs of the architectural process and best practices for determining those outputs.

32. Tivoli Field Guide - Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Database Backup/Restore using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client

    This article discusses how to properly backup and restore the cluster service database using the Tivoli Storage Manager Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive client. This article does not discuss backup or restore of data that is stored on clustered disk resources, but focuses on the backup and restore of the MSCS database. The Microsoft Cluster Server is clustering software that was introduced in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The API to backup and restore the MSCS database is only available on

33. Tivoli Field Guide - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System: Data Backup and Restore

    The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SAN FS) allows data to be shared between systems in a heterogeneous SAN environment. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client has been enhanced in version 5.2.2 to support data protection in a SAN FS environment. This document discusses how to configure and use TSM to provide data protection in a SAN FS environment.

34. Tivoli Field Guide - Security Considerations: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

    IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides features that can be used to improve security of your environment. This document explains practical uses of the TSM security features, why they are necessary, and how they can be configured in your environment. Tivoli Storage Manager supports multi user environments, which enable non-administrators to use TSM to manage their own data. This document discusses some of the following topics related to security management in a multi-user environment: · TSM users, their capab

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1. Tivoli Field Guide - The Tivoli Management Enterprise Endpoint Gateway: A Technical Look at the Internals

   An unstable endpoint manager or endpoint gateway can have a catastrophic ripple effect on the reliability and effectiveness of the Tivoli® Management Environment. This is primarily because of the number of management units that are affected by their instability. An unreliable gateway with 1,000 endpoints logged into it affects the ability of the administrator to effectively manage those 1,000 machines. In an environment of 10,000 endpoints, that represents a 10% failure rate, which is unacceptable in any o