Processing options
You can use defaults for processing client options or you can tailor the processing options to meet your specific needs. Read about an overview of processing options and explore the options reference that provides detailed information about each option.
- Processing options overview
Tivoli Storage Manager uses processing options to control communications, backup-archive processing, and other types of processing. - Communication options
You use communication options to specify how your client node communicates with a Tivoli Storage Manager server. This topic provides information about the types of communication options you can use. - Server options
Use the servername option in your dsm.sys file to begin a group of options (stanzas) used to connect to a Tivoli Storage Manager server. - Backup and archive processing options
You can specify client options to control some aspects of backup and archive processing. - Restore and retrieve processing options
You can use client options to control some aspects of restore and retrieve processing. - Scheduling options
This topic discusses the options that you can use to regulate central scheduling. Tivoli Storage Manager uses scheduling options only when the Scheduler is running. - Format and language options
Format and language options allow you to select different formats for date, time and numbers for different languages. - Command processing options
This topic explains the options that you can use with the Tivoli Storage Manager commands. - Authorization options
Authorization options control access to a Tivoli Storage Manager server. - Error processing options
Error processing options specify the name of the error log file and how Tivoli Storage Manager treats the entries in the log file. - Transaction processing options
Transaction processing options control how Tivoli Storage Manager processes transactions between the client and server. - Web client options
Several backup-archive client options are used to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager web client. - Using options with commands
You can override some of the options in your client options file (dsm.opt) file by entering them with appropriate Tivoli Storage Manager commands. - Client options reference
The following sections contain detailed information about each of the Tivoli Storage Manager processing options.
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