Maintaining the Storage Management Subsystem

After activating SMS, you need to monitor and adjust it over time. This topic explains how to maintain SMS. Maintenance activities include listing, altering and ejecting optical and tape volumes. Maintenance activities also include listing, altering, copying, and deleting the following SMS components:

Storage groups
Management classes
Storage classes
Data classes
Copy pools
Aggregate groups
Optical libraries
Optical drives
Tape libraries

Tip: You can use the DFSMS NaviQuest tool to help you maintain your SMS configuration. With DFSMS NaviQuest, you can perform many ongoing storage administration activities in batch, thereby freeing the workstation for other work. For example, you can update configuration values, create reports, and use NaviQuest's cross-referencing capabilities to help you verify changes to the configuration.

See Using NaviQuest for more information on DFSMS NaviQuest.