Developer’s Description
TSM Studio is the ultimate tool for supporting and maintaining your Tivoli Storage Manager environment. Backup and Restores are a critical part to the success of your business so it is critical to ensure that your environment is running at its peak. TSM Studio is an easy to use tool providing insight into the key area of your TSM environment with IBM Certified for Tivoli Storage Manager and Context Sensitive Commands.
Requirements:
Tivoli Storage Manager Administrative Client.
Limitations:
30-day trial
Retrieve data and generate reports for IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (Spectrum Protect) with this utility that provides increased server management
What’s new in TSM Studio Server 3.1.1.4:
- Fixed Issue with some charts displaying no data available message
- Fixed issue with Session times collection
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People who use the IBM’s popular Tivoli Storage Manager, currently known as Spectrum Protect, could require a solution for managing their server environment. TSM Studio Server is an application that was created in order to provide a robust and reliable solution for handling the TSM servers.
Through its solid integration with the operating system, the application will provide users with an efficient way of monitoring their TSM servers. It will allow them to observe important performance indicators for the storage manager and generate reports about their server environments.
The application will require a database component and it will support both the Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL software packages, onto which it will store all the collected data. Based on the functionality of the selected database management system, the utility will allow users to schedule various TSM SQL queries, which can be used later on to automatically generate custom reports. The reports can be published in PDF, CSV, Excel or image formats, in accordance with users’ requirements.
Alerting for the different TSM specific events is available and people can choose for the application to notify them in realtime, by email, SNMP, Inbuilt Alerts Console or trigger scripting. Those who rely on the application’s documentation will be happy to know that they will benefit from a comprehensive, inbuilt documentation library.
Group reporting is also possible and the application will provide a client node deletion workflow. Accompanying the monitoring features, are an extensive collection of over 100 predefined datviews, charts and diagram templates that can be used in order to shape the required reports to users’ specifications.
System requirements
- MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK 4.5
- MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2008 AND ABOVE.
- MYSQL 5.5 AND ABOVE.
- Tivoli Storage Manager Administrative Client
- RAM: 16 GB.
- CPU: Quad Core.
- At least 526.2 MB of free disk space.
Limitations in the unregistered version
- 30-day trial period.
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Those who use IBM’s popular Tivoli Storage Manager, which is currently known as the Spectrum Project, could need a tool for administering their storage environment. SP Studio is an application that was developed in order to offer users the means to manage and evaluate their TSM environment. It will allow administrators to connect to multiple TSM servers and access all the important data that controls the database scheduling scheme.
The application offers users an apparently simple interface, but which becomes increasingly complex once they start initiating its several features. One will be able to easily add TSM servers, SP Studio servers and ACSLS managers to the connection list and view the corresponding internal database schedule for each.
People can add their server names, custom descriptions and specific logon details, commanding routes and even predefined user options. Once the connections with the preferred servers has been established, people are able to define schedules for administrative events, create scheduling diagrams and establish associations.
Users will have access to a plethora of tools and features that are aimed at helping them attain the preferred TSM environment management. All of the provided features are offered both as quick-access buttons as well as in the dedicated menus which carry an impressive number of features for administrator management.
Upon connecting new TSM servers, the application automatically creates the internal server structure, with modules for automation, charging, client nodes, database or configuration. This is especially useful for inexperienced users, who will have all the server structure presented in a template which they can populate with the required schedules, tasks or commands.
Considering its powerful feature pack and exhaustive collection of tools for administrators that handle TSM server environments, this utility could be a solid choice for those in need of such features. It will allow them to connect as many TSM servers as possible, define their internal structure with ease, add custom tasks, schedules or commands and configure the server structure to meet their requirements.
TSM Studio Server is a tool for managing your TSM Studio Environment, it provides access to a lot of data not available from the ISC and includes a reporting engine for designing your own reports without the need for a large hardware investment.
TSM Studio runs on your desktop and connects to any TSM Server in your environment and can provide a consolidated view of all your TSM Servers.
The TSM Studio interface has three main sections, The Main Menu and Toolbar, The Navigation Panel and the Dataview Window.