- Oracle Solaris: Creating the server instance
Create a Tivoli Storage Manager instance by issuing the db2icrt command. 
Oracle Solaris: Configuring server and client communications
A default sample server options file, dsmserv.opt.smp, is created during Tivoli Storage Manager installation in the /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory. You must set up communications between the server and clients by creating a new server options file. To do so, copy the sample file to the directory for the server instance.- Oracle Solaris: Formatting the database and log
Use the DSMSERV FORMAT utility to initialize a server instance. No other server activity is allowed while initializing the database and recovery log. - Oracle Solaris: Preparing the database manager for database backup
To back up the data in the database to Tivoli Storage Manager, you must enable the database manager and configure the Tivoli Storage Manager application programming interface (API).