Reporter is an easy to use powerfull reporting product for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). It works right out of the box, easy installation and ready to use reports. No SQL query coding needed, more than 500 reports ready to use! Get in touch with us for a live demo or a 30 day trial. www.plcs.eu

1. PLCS Reporter v2.8
for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Up to date accurate enterprise reporting,
alerting and trending for TSM servers
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2. Overview: PLCS Reporter
 Automated and simple reporting and
monitoring for TSM (500+ ready to use reports /
8000 reported items)
Ready to use reports, (no SQL coding needed ) –
predefined easy to use powerful reports
Historic trending for capacity planning
 Problem prediction and analysis
 Up to date alerting of critical events
 Verification of compliance with service
level agreements
PLCS Reporter provides data gathering,
trending and analysis capabilities

3. Benefits: PLCS Reporter
 Data Collection Database
- Live data gathering
- Non-interference with production server
- Works in 10 minutes, easy quick and simple
 Historical Charts & Graphs
- Capacity planning
- Auditing and confirmation of SLA compliance
- Troubleshooting
- Long term data collection
- “Zoom able” graphs and choice of graph visual
- Automated logging and documentation of all your
changes made on your TSM Servers, great for audits!
 Hardware Utilization Statistics
- Load Balancing
- Investment Protection
- Infrastructure Planning
PLCS Reporter helps manage your
critical backup servers and clients

4. Features: PLCS Reporter
Major Feature Business Driver
Driver
Powerful Reporting One screen overview reports of historical data
Data Collection Database Live data gathering doesn’t interfere
with production server
Trend & Capacity Analysis Predict future storage requirements
For load balancing, investment protection and
Hardware Utilization Stats
infrastructure planning
Health Check Error detection and troubleshooting
of performance bottlenecks
Audit Reporting & Confirmation of compliance with SLAs
Chargeback

5. How It Works
 Live data collection captures data from your
TSM servers (agentfree, nothing to install)
 Historical TSM data is warehoused in a
dedicated database
 Data warehouse is mined to generate reports
and valuable system alerts
 Production TSM servers are not impacted
because Reporter uses its own database
 Provides a complete backup status view to
confirm SLA and regulatory compliance
PLCS Reporter provides valuable feedback
on the performance and usage of your TSM
Server

6. Report Examples: PLCS Reporter
PLCS Reporter provides summary
reports of active and historical data
including:
 Clients
- Completion status, performance, days since last
access, clients not scheduled, clients with data on
many volumes, total data backed up by clients,
software versions and licenses in use
 Occupancy
- Total amount of data in storage pools per client,
total amount of files per client and utilization trends
 Drives and Library
- Utilization, specifications, errors and history
 Database and Recovery Log
- Summary, configuration, performance and history

7. Client Schedule Summary

8. Report Examples: PLCS Reporter
 Storage Pools
- Capacity, utilization percentages, history and trends
 Volumes
- Volume count, filling volumes and errors
 Administration
- Failed processes, files missed, skipped or failed in
backup, error counts, history including media waits,
processing time and data processed
 Security Report
- Locked accounts, invalid passwords, updates to
client attributes, locked clients, client registrations
and password changes
 Disaster Recovery Manager
- Summary, configuration, volumes and on and off site

9. Interactive Timeline View

10. Requirements: PLCS Reporter
 Hardware
- 32-bit or 64 Intel CPU (or compatible like AMD)
- 2 GB+ RAM
- 80 GB disk space (more for long term logging)
 Software
- Microsoft Windows 7 (or vista)
- Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 or higher
- Microsoft Windows 2008
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
- Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008R2 (free)
or external SQL Server 2005 or 2008
Also available as ready-plugin virtual machine.
Reporter can also run inside a virtual machine!
Try reporter yourself! www.plcs.eu
PLCS Reporter installs easily into your
data center environment

11. Summary: Automated health check on TSM
Make sure your server is running smoothly
Highlights & benefits:
• Health check within minutes
• Capacity planning
• Trends & prediction
• Graphical activity overview
• Automatic TSM analysis
• One screen activity overview
• Long term data audit
• No load on TSM server
• Information & reporting
• Volume mount and usage history
• Asset management information
Unique features:
• CPU license information
• Easy Windows install
• Drop & drag updates
• Quick problem determination
• Charge Back billing
• Timeline overview
• 500+ Reports included
Saves you time and money!

12. Summary: PLCS Reporter
 PLCS Reporter provides live data
gathering and automated analysis of
your mission critical backup environment
 Powerful reporting capabilities
 Predict future storage requirements
 Perform error detection and resolution
of performance bottlenecks
 Confirm SLA and regulatory compliance
 PLCS Reporter is complete agent free
PLCS Reporter provides an easy-to-use,
intuitive graphical interface

13. Update 08-2012: PLCS Reporter
 Fully TSM 6.x aware and updated
 Reports on TSM Virtual environments
 Predict future storage requirements
 Reports on capacity (TB) vs PVU licenses
 File and filespace live checking with TSM for
existence of a backup file inside TSM
 PLCS Reporter is complete agent free
Reporter is fully VMware supported!
NDMP reports, Capacity deduplication savings,
CPU detection, TB capacity reports and more..

14. What Our Software Customers Say
“Best plug-in software I’ve ever used. Painless.”
Fortune 500 Company
“Our greatest cost savings by far have been in
terms of labor required. It’s as straightforward to
use as technology comes these days.”
Snohomish County PUD
“The amount of information we get is amazing! It
tells us all what we need to know”
Dexia Bank
“Reporter helped us saving lots of time during our
TSM 5 to 6 upgrade”
VRT Belgium

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16. Product suite of solutions
Manage TSM ? Yes you can …, with our products!
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17. PLCS – Who we are
 Founded in 1999 with HQ in Netherlands
 „Business Inteligence for TSM“
 Suite of products fully focused and certified for TSM
 over 30 years combined TSM experience
 selected members of the IBM Beta & ADVISORY programme,
allowing PLCS to be involved and anticipate future developments
of TSM which are directly fed back into the development process
of our product roadmap
 Proven solution. We are currently working with the 3rd generation
of our software.
 Ready for Tivoli Certified product
 Large customer installed base
 Reseller network worldwide
 OEM Partnership in USA

18. Some of our customers & partners include;

19. PLCS EU
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20. Extra screenshots of PVU and other functions.

21. WMI data & machine scan of Windows software

22. Node restore prediction based on backup results

23. Support of VMWare systems
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Agentfree
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No code to be installed
Reporter connects to VMWare virtual center or any ESX host
Works with the VMWare VI toolkit API to detect disk and cpu
, network information and all those related information.
Virtual machine matching with TSM backup nodes
(or mention vm’s which are NOT being backupped)

24. Deduplication reports & savings
Reports of
savings with
deduplication.