data sheet Reporter for IBM TSM

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Reporter® for IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager – Business intelligence for TSM!
Real-time accurate reporting, alerting and trending for TSM servers
Highlights Make sure your TSM Reporter also assists you with the critical
server is running smoothly! task of confirming compliance with
· Automated, easy-to-use reporting
and monitoring for TSM ® ®
PLCS Reporter for IBM Tivoli ® service level agreements and regulatory
requirements by providing a complete
· Historic trending for capacity Storage Manager (TSM) keeps an
planning eye on your TSM environment when picture of client backup status and trends.
you can’t. Reporter provides live data
· Problem prediction and analysis
gathering, and one button analysis,
· Real-time alerting of critical events reporting and trending of your critical
backup servers and clients.
· Verification of compliance with
service-level agreements
Overview
· 500+ reports, graphs and charts
available Reporter’s live data collection process
runs continuously to capture data from
- Enterprise reporting on multiple your TSM servers and store it in its own
TSM instances
database.
- Grouping of TSM instances for
reports and trending Reporter uses the data to provide
reports and alerts of your current server
environment and to generate reports for
Features and Benefits problem analysis, trending, hardware
utilization statistics, and configuration
Data collection database inconsistencies. Since Reporter uses
· Live data gathering its own database to analyze data and
· Doesn’t interfere with production generate reports, your TSM servers are
server Reporter provides one screen overview
not impacted by long running queries
Historical charts & graphs or select statements. reports of active and historical data
· Capacity planning including:
The historical views provided by
· Auditing and confirmation of
compliance with SLAs and Reporter of your TSM environment and Clients
regulatory requirements operations are a great troubleshooting Completion status, performance,
· Troubleshooting and problem determination tool for hard days since last access, clients not
Hardware utilization statistics to diagnose problems like intermittent scheduled, clients with data on many
· Load balancing client or process failures and network volumes, total data backed up by
· Investment protection bandwidth issues. clients, software versions, licenses
· Infrastructure planning in use, percentages of success ratio for
MS Windows GUI backup and restore operations.
· Easy to use Occupancy
· HTML/XML/CSV output Total amount of data in storage pools
per client, total amount of files per
Charge Back -Trending Analysis
Enterprise reporting - Advise client, utilization trends, growth
Reporter is Ready for Tivoli certified. numbers.

2. Minimum System Requirements
Hardware:
· A 32-bit Intel ® ®
Pentium
or compatible processor, or
multiprocessor computer
· 2GB RAM
· 80GB disk space
Software:
 Windows 7or Vista, Microsoft Windows
2003 SP1/2008
 Microsoft dot.NET 1.1 SP1
 MS SQL database (express)
Reporter provides easy one-click access to TSM processing information.
Drives & library In addition to the many (custom) reports and
Other Products and Services Utilization, specifications, errors, graphs which Reporter provides, the Time
History, drive usage by processes Line Monitor view provides a quick status
In addition to Reporter, PLCS produces
of database utilization, database backup,
other enterprise software products that Database & recovery log
client events and schedules.
are designed to simplify use and enhance
Summary, configuration,
performance, history Reporter also has a quick, easy to use
the functionality of any TSM installation.
Storage pools interface for creating TSM client
PLCS also delivers enterprise backup
Capacity, utilization percentages, collocation groups. This tool analyzes client
solutions and provides industry certified
history, trends and usage graphs volume usage by policy domain and creates
training and consulting services. Visit us
collocation groups based client size and
at www.plcs.nl for more information. Volumes
volume usage for optimal restore performance.
Volume count, filling volumes, errors
New in this release(2.7) : VMWare and
Administrative processes All data is captured and stored in our database,
windows clients CPU detection for licenses.
Failed processes; files missed, so there is no workload on your TSM server
IBM PVU license reports – Installed software
skipped or failed in backup; error database and instance. Data is kept in our
assets reports on Windows clients.
counts; history including media waits, database so your activity log retention can be
Lots of new reports and information for
processing time, data processed smaller while you still have your key figures
TSM 6.2 Custom report generation with
Security report available.
query editor. New Reports and alerting.
Locked accounts, invalid passwords,
Reporter gives you a data warehouse and
Contact Information updates to client attributes, locked
business intelligence for TSM. It gives you
clients, client registrations, password
insight and advice next to huge powerful export
P.L.C.S. BV changes
capabilities of data to XML and MS Excel.
PO Box 292 Disaster Recovery Manager
Summary, configuration, volumes on Finally, Reporter provides easy, one button
3342 GT Hendrik Ido Ambacht
and off site reports. Volume reports access to view dozens of historical graphs
The Netherlands on filling and tape usage. and charts for use in forecasting and
capacity planning.
Phone: (+31) (0)78 682 36 85
Activity log Search
info@plcs.eu Contact us for a
Search the activity log based on a
www.plcs.eu live demo!
session or process and get all
Version 2.7 (c) 2001-2011 information in one click – advice and
analysis including tape mounts!