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What are the ongoing tasks that need to be done for "care and feeding" of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center? This document takes you through various tasks that need to be performed daily, weekly, monthly to keep Tivoli Storage Productivity Center running after a successful installation.

This IBM Redpaper is an introduction to storage provisioning and is written for anyone who needs to understand IBM automated storage provisioning tools. The IBM storage provisioning solution is based on Tivoli Provisioning Manager. This paper examines TPM's support for storage provisioning in detail and describe how it can be used standalone or combined with IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center to create a comprehensive storage management and provisioning solution. To illustrate the power of automated storage provisioning, an example of a storage provisioning solution written to manage an IBM TotalStorage SAN File System is used. This shows how automated storage provisioning can simplify tasks, eliminate the chance of human error, and reduce the time taken to provision servers with SAN attached storage. Additional material<br> Click <A HREF= "ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/REDP3900/"> here </A> to download a screen recording and script of Tivoli Provisioning Manager and TotalStorage Productivity Centre (for Advanced Provisioning) being used to provision a storage volume create a logical volume and file system on an AIX server.