This document provides a deployment guide for Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files. It discusses the product architecture including main components, capabilities, directories and files, and integration with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. It covers planning considerations for deployment such as critical files, backup needs, backup locations, and file backup frequencies. The guide also describes installing, configuring, and using Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files as well as troubleshooting, use case scenarios, and how it can work with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
This document provides deployment best practices and guidance for installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files V3.1. It includes information on planning a deployment, installing and configuring the software, proof of concept scenarios for single-user, home, small business and enterprise environments, and troubleshooting tips. The document is intended for IT professionals tasked with deploying Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files.
This document provides an overview of using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (ITSM) to perform bare metal recovery (BMR) of Microsoft Windows 2003 and XP systems. It describes setting up ITSM and customizing the client for backups. The document outlines the backup process for the Automated System Recovery (ASR) components and other files and shows how to copy backups to removable media. It then demonstrates how to use ASR and the ITSM backups to recover Windows 2003 and XP systems.
This document provides an overview of tape encryption solutions from IBM, including IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager Version 2. It discusses IBM tape drives and libraries that support encryption, and the different methods of managing encryption at the system, library, and application levels. The document also covers planning for hardware and software requirements to implement a tape encryption solution.
This document provides an overview of backup and recovery solutions for IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. It discusses hardware and software considerations for data availability and describes recovery procedures for the NAS 200 and 300. The document also examines the use of snapshot and replication technologies like Persistent Storage Manager (PSM) and Double-Take. Finally, it reviews several popular backup software solutions and how to implement backups from IBM NAS using them.
This document provides information about planning and deploying IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data, including:
- An overview of the product, its features, architecture and supported levels
- Planning considerations for hardware, software, databases, user IDs and security
- Steps for installing the Agent Manager and other components on Windows and Linux
This document provides an overview and details of the IBM Information Archive product. It describes the hardware and software components that make up the archive, including cluster nodes, storage controllers, switches and software like Tivoli Storage Manager. It also covers planning considerations for setting up the archive such as capacity needs, network configuration and high availability options. The document is intended to help customers understand what is required to deploy an IBM Information Archive solution.
This document provides an overview and guide for planning and using the IBM TS7500 Virtualization Engine. The TS7500 consolidates backup storage and improves efficiency through data deduplication and compression. It introduces virtual tape support through its software architecture. The guide covers TS7500 components, disk architecture using RAID, and backup architectures like disk-to-disk-to-tape. It aims to help users understand and make the best use of the TS7500's virtualization capabilities.
This document discusses using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to back up DB2 databases on multiple platforms. It covers all aspects of protecting DB2 databases, including backup, restore, and disaster recovery. The document provides practical scenarios and step-by-step instructions. It is intended for database administrators who need to back up DB2 databases.
This document provides deployment best practices and guidance for installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files V3.1. It includes information on planning a deployment, installing and configuring the software, proof of concept scenarios for single-user, home, small business and enterprise environments, and troubleshooting tips. The document is intended for IT professionals tasked with deploying Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files.
This document provides an overview of using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (ITSM) to perform bare metal recovery (BMR) of Microsoft Windows 2003 and XP systems. It describes setting up ITSM and customizing the client for backups. The document outlines the backup process for the Automated System Recovery (ASR) components and other files and shows how to copy backups to removable media. It then demonstrates how to use ASR and the ITSM backups to recover Windows 2003 and XP systems.
This document provides an overview of tape encryption solutions from IBM, including IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager Version 2. It discusses IBM tape drives and libraries that support encryption, and the different methods of managing encryption at the system, library, and application levels. The document also covers planning for hardware and software requirements to implement a tape encryption solution.
This document provides an overview of backup and recovery solutions for IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. It discusses hardware and software considerations for data availability and describes recovery procedures for the NAS 200 and 300. The document also examines the use of snapshot and replication technologies like Persistent Storage Manager (PSM) and Double-Take. Finally, it reviews several popular backup software solutions and how to implement backups from IBM NAS using them.
This document provides information about planning and deploying IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data, including:
- An overview of the product, its features, architecture and supported levels
- Planning considerations for hardware, software, databases, user IDs and security
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This document is a study guide for the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2 certification. It explains the certification path and prerequisites, provides an overview of the Tivoli Management Framework and Tivoli Configuration Manager components and installation, and includes sample test questions and answers to help readers prepare for the certification exam.
This document provides an overview of implementing the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC). It discusses planning requirements such as the management software, managed devices, event sources, and rule policies. It then covers installing the required relational database management system (RDBMS), either Oracle or Sybase. Finally, it describes setting up the Tivoli Management Framework, installing the TEC software, configuring distributed monitoring and scripts, and deploying event adapters.
This document provides guidance on planning and deploying IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Resources V6.2 (ITCAM) to monitor Web application server performance. It discusses the ITCAM architecture and how it interconnects with J2EE and WebSphere data collectors. It also covers hardware and software prerequisites, typical deployment environments, and provides a sample project plan for setting up ITCAM with tasks such as environment preparation, software installation, and customizing the product.
This document is an IBM System Storage Solutions Handbook that provides an overview of IBM storage products and solutions. It discusses IBM's dynamic infrastructure strategy and key technologies like cloud computing, virtualization, security and energy efficiency. It also provides details about IBM's portfolio of disk systems, tape systems, storage area networks, network attached storage, and storage software solutions. The document is intended to help readers learn about and find IBM storage products that meet their business needs.
This document provides an overview of building a highly available clustered environment for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. It discusses cluster concepts and high availability. It then describes testing a clustered Tivoli Storage Manager environment, including testing the cluster infrastructure and applications. The document focuses on configuring Microsoft Windows clusters with Tivoli Storage Manager for both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 environments. It covers installing and configuring the Tivoli Storage Manager server and client within a Microsoft Cluster Server. It also includes testing the setup and configurations.
The document provides an overview and installation instructions for integrating multiple IBM Tivoli products. It discusses security integration using LDAP and single sign-on. Product installations covered include IBM Service Management, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Netcool, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. The document is intended to help customers integrate these products in their environments.
The document is a manual for Tivoli Business Systems Manager Version 2.1. It provides an overview of the product, which allows for end-to-end business impact management through integrated systems management. The manual details the product structure, components, functions, database structure, user interface, and planning requirements for implementation. It is intended to help users understand and implement the key capabilities of Tivoli Business Systems Manager.
This document provides instructions for installing and configuring IBM's Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator software. It guides the reader through planning a demonstration of the software, installing necessary components on Windows systems, designing a sample data center model using XML, and loading and testing the model. The final chapter describes demonstrating the software's capabilities to monitor and manage resources and applications in the simulated data center.
This document provides an overview and insider's guide to IBM Tivoli Management Services Warehouse and Reporting. It discusses the architecture and internals of Tivoli Data Warehouse, best practices for deployment configurations, and step-by-step instructions for configuring various components like the Warehouse Proxy and Summarization and Pruning agent. It also demonstrates how to integrate Tivoli Data Warehouse with other Tivoli products for reporting.
This document provides an overview and guide for planning and implementing IBM's Tivoli Data Warehouse Version 1.3. It discusses key concepts in data warehousing and business intelligence. The document also covers planning a data warehouse project, including requirements, design considerations, and best practices. Implementation topics include hardware and software requirements, physical and logical design options, database sizing, security, and more. The goal is to help IT professionals successfully deploy Tivoli Data Warehouse.
This document provides an overview and planning guide for implementing an availability and performance monitoring solution based on IBM's Tivoli portfolio and following an ITIL-based management approach. It discusses key concepts in ITIL, availability management, and capacity management. It also introduces IBM's service management framework and blueprint. Additionally, it provides overviews of the various Tivoli products for resource monitoring, composite application management, event correlation, business service management, mainframe management, and process management. Finally, it includes sample scenarios for monitoring UNIX servers, web applications, networks, and a complex retail environment.
This document provides an overview and instructions for implementing the IBM System Storage SAN32B-E4 Encryption Switch. It discusses the hardware components of the encryption switch and SAN Director Encryption Blades. It also covers the interaction between the encryption switches and Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager for centralized key management. The document includes steps for installing, configuring, and setting up the encryption switches as well as deployment scenarios.
This document provides instructions for using the MobileFirst Quality Assurance tool on Bluemix to perform sentiment analysis. It first gives a brief overview of MobileFirst Quality Assurance and its capabilities. It then outlines the steps to set up a Mobile Quality Assurance service instance on Bluemix and link it to an iOS app. Finally, it describes how to view the sentiment analysis results in production, including overall sentiment scores, attribute dashboards, comparison to other apps, and attribute trend statistics.
This document provides an overview of IBM MobileFirst Platform's operational analytics features. It describes how the analytics platform collects and analyzes data from mobile applications, servers, and devices to provide visibility into performance and usage. The analytics console contains various views and capabilities for searching logs, viewing charts and reports, and diagnosing issues. It summarizes the different data sources, events captured, and the client and server APIs used to log additional analytics data. The document then outlines the steps to access the analytics console and walk through its key pages and functionality.
This document describes a lab exercise to demonstrate application management functions in IBM MobileFirst using the MobileFirst Operations Console. The lab will:
1. Deploy an initial version of an IBMBank mobile application to a MobileFirst Server.
2. Publish an updated version of the application to fix a bug, and test the "Direct Update" feature which pushes changes to client devices.
3. Configure application status notifications via the MobileFirst Operations Console and see them displayed on an Android emulator.
This document provides instructions for a lab exercise on getting started with IBM MobileFirst Platform. It introduces the key concepts of MobileFirst Platform Studio and walks through steps to import a sample banking application project, examine the project structure, add an Android environment, and preview the application in the Mobile Browser Simulator and an Android device. It also demonstrates how to invoke backend services using adapters and view analytics data from the MobileFirst Operations Console. The document contains detailed steps, screenshots and explanations to help users learn fundamental MobileFirst Platform development tasks.
This document provides an overview of tape backup solutions for Netfinity servers. It discusses various tape technologies like DLT, 8mm, and 4mm tapes. It also covers different system topologies for backups like direct tape connections, single server models, two-tier models, and multi-tier models. The document recommends strategies for backups, including scheduling, compression, and hierarchical storage. It provides details on specific IBM tape drives like 40/80GB DLT, 35/70GB DLT, and 20/40GB 8mm drives. The intended audience is IT professionals implementing backup solutions for Netfinity servers.
This document provides an overview and introduction to IBM TotalStorage SAN File System version 2.2.2. It discusses the growth of storage area networks (SANs) and storage networking technology trends. It also covers SAN File System architecture, prerequisites, features like policy-based storage management and FlashCopy, and reliability. The document is intended to help readers understand and plan SAN File System implementations.
This document provides an overview and instructions for integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) on an IBM iSeries server. BRMS is used to back up user and system data on the iSeries, while TSM provides backup and recovery capabilities for multiple platforms. The document discusses the capabilities and interfaces of both products and provides best practices for backing up data to TSM using BRMS. It also covers installation, configuration, and use of the TSM server and client software on the iSeries.
This document provides an overview of IBM DS8700 disk encryption and key management. It discusses how the DS8700 uses symmetric encryption and the Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager for key management. It provides guidance on planning, implementing, and maintaining a DS8700 encryption environment including best practices for security, availability, and preventing encryption deadlocks. It also describes the configuration of encryption settings through the Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager console and DS8700 GUI and CLI.
This document provides an overview and comparison of IBM tape library solutions for backing up IBM xSeries servers. It discusses factors to consider when selecting a tape library such as capacity, number of drives, and scalability. It also provides configuration details for backing up to tape libraries using Tivoli Storage Manager, VERITAS Backup Exec, and CA ARCserve. Recovery procedures using the backup software and Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager are also covered.
This document provides a release guide for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.2. It includes information on the new features and functions of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2, an overview of the product architecture and family, and instructions for installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center on Windows and Linux systems. The document covers preinstallation steps, installing prerequisite software like DB2, and installing the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, graphical user interface (GUI), and command line interface (CLI).
This document is a study guide for the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2 certification. It explains the certification path and prerequisites, provides an overview of the Tivoli Management Framework and Tivoli Configuration Manager components and installation, and includes sample test questions and answers to help readers prepare for the certification exam.
This document provides an overview of implementing the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC). It discusses planning requirements such as the management software, managed devices, event sources, and rule policies. It then covers installing the required relational database management system (RDBMS), either Oracle or Sybase. Finally, it describes setting up the Tivoli Management Framework, installing the TEC software, configuring distributed monitoring and scripts, and deploying event adapters.
This document provides guidance on planning and deploying IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Resources V6.2 (ITCAM) to monitor Web application server performance. It discusses the ITCAM architecture and how it interconnects with J2EE and WebSphere data collectors. It also covers hardware and software prerequisites, typical deployment environments, and provides a sample project plan for setting up ITCAM with tasks such as environment preparation, software installation, and customizing the product.
This document is an IBM System Storage Solutions Handbook that provides an overview of IBM storage products and solutions. It discusses IBM's dynamic infrastructure strategy and key technologies like cloud computing, virtualization, security and energy efficiency. It also provides details about IBM's portfolio of disk systems, tape systems, storage area networks, network attached storage, and storage software solutions. The document is intended to help readers learn about and find IBM storage products that meet their business needs.
This document provides an overview of building a highly available clustered environment for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. It discusses cluster concepts and high availability. It then describes testing a clustered Tivoli Storage Manager environment, including testing the cluster infrastructure and applications. The document focuses on configuring Microsoft Windows clusters with Tivoli Storage Manager for both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 environments. It covers installing and configuring the Tivoli Storage Manager server and client within a Microsoft Cluster Server. It also includes testing the setup and configurations.
The document provides an overview and installation instructions for integrating multiple IBM Tivoli products. It discusses security integration using LDAP and single sign-on. Product installations covered include IBM Service Management, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Netcool, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. The document is intended to help customers integrate these products in their environments.
The document is a manual for Tivoli Business Systems Manager Version 2.1. It provides an overview of the product, which allows for end-to-end business impact management through integrated systems management. The manual details the product structure, components, functions, database structure, user interface, and planning requirements for implementation. It is intended to help users understand and implement the key capabilities of Tivoli Business Systems Manager.
This document provides instructions for installing and configuring IBM's Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator software. It guides the reader through planning a demonstration of the software, installing necessary components on Windows systems, designing a sample data center model using XML, and loading and testing the model. The final chapter describes demonstrating the software's capabilities to monitor and manage resources and applications in the simulated data center.
This document provides an overview and insider's guide to IBM Tivoli Management Services Warehouse and Reporting. It discusses the architecture and internals of Tivoli Data Warehouse, best practices for deployment configurations, and step-by-step instructions for configuring various components like the Warehouse Proxy and Summarization and Pruning agent. It also demonstrates how to integrate Tivoli Data Warehouse with other Tivoli products for reporting.
This document provides an overview and guide for planning and implementing IBM's Tivoli Data Warehouse Version 1.3. It discusses key concepts in data warehousing and business intelligence. The document also covers planning a data warehouse project, including requirements, design considerations, and best practices. Implementation topics include hardware and software requirements, physical and logical design options, database sizing, security, and more. The goal is to help IT professionals successfully deploy Tivoli Data Warehouse.
This document provides an overview and planning guide for implementing an availability and performance monitoring solution based on IBM's Tivoli portfolio and following an ITIL-based management approach. It discusses key concepts in ITIL, availability management, and capacity management. It also introduces IBM's service management framework and blueprint. Additionally, it provides overviews of the various Tivoli products for resource monitoring, composite application management, event correlation, business service management, mainframe management, and process management. Finally, it includes sample scenarios for monitoring UNIX servers, web applications, networks, and a complex retail environment.
This document provides an overview and instructions for implementing the IBM System Storage SAN32B-E4 Encryption Switch. It discusses the hardware components of the encryption switch and SAN Director Encryption Blades. It also covers the interaction between the encryption switches and Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager for centralized key management. The document includes steps for installing, configuring, and setting up the encryption switches as well as deployment scenarios.
This document provides instructions for using the MobileFirst Quality Assurance tool on Bluemix to perform sentiment analysis. It first gives a brief overview of MobileFirst Quality Assurance and its capabilities. It then outlines the steps to set up a Mobile Quality Assurance service instance on Bluemix and link it to an iOS app. Finally, it describes how to view the sentiment analysis results in production, including overall sentiment scores, attribute dashboards, comparison to other apps, and attribute trend statistics.
This document provides an overview of IBM MobileFirst Platform's operational analytics features. It describes how the analytics platform collects and analyzes data from mobile applications, servers, and devices to provide visibility into performance and usage. The analytics console contains various views and capabilities for searching logs, viewing charts and reports, and diagnosing issues. It summarizes the different data sources, events captured, and the client and server APIs used to log additional analytics data. The document then outlines the steps to access the analytics console and walk through its key pages and functionality.
This document describes a lab exercise to demonstrate application management functions in IBM MobileFirst using the MobileFirst Operations Console. The lab will:
1. Deploy an initial version of an IBMBank mobile application to a MobileFirst Server.
2. Publish an updated version of the application to fix a bug, and test the "Direct Update" feature which pushes changes to client devices.
3. Configure application status notifications via the MobileFirst Operations Console and see them displayed on an Android emulator.
This document provides instructions for a lab exercise on getting started with IBM MobileFirst Platform. It introduces the key concepts of MobileFirst Platform Studio and walks through steps to import a sample banking application project, examine the project structure, add an Android environment, and preview the application in the Mobile Browser Simulator and an Android device. It also demonstrates how to invoke backend services using adapters and view analytics data from the MobileFirst Operations Console. The document contains detailed steps, screenshots and explanations to help users learn fundamental MobileFirst Platform development tasks.
IBM MobileFirst Foundation provides tools for developing hybrid, native, and mobile web applications using standards-based technologies. This proof of technology session will demonstrate how to use IBM MobileFirst Foundation to accelerate mobile app development, provide management of deployed apps, and utilize capabilities like in-app notifications, operational analytics, and sentiment analysis. The agenda includes presentations and hands-on labs covering app development, backend integration, app lifecycle management, quality assurance, and the MobileFirst architecture. The session is intended for IT professionals interested in a mobile application platform and will be offered free of charge with breakfast provided.
The document describes adding a mobile coupons ("My Offers") feature to the IBMBank mobile application. It involves using the MobileFirst Platform Service Discovery wizard to generate an adapter for a SOAP web service, adding HTML/JS to display offer data from the service, and implementing local storage of selected offers using the JSON Store database. Key steps include discovering and testing the SOAP service, importing JS files, initializing JSON Store, modifying the app code to retrieve and save offers, and previewing the updated app.
This document provides instructions for a lab exercise on getting started with IBM MobileFirst Platform. It introduces the key concepts of MobileFirst Platform Studio and walks through steps to import a sample banking application project, examine the project structure, add an Android environment, and preview the application in the Mobile Browser Simulator and an Android device. It also demonstrates how to invoke adapters and use the MobileFirst Platform Console and Operational Analytics. The lab aims to familiarize users with the MobileFirst Platform development tools and features.
The IBM MobileFirst Platform provides mobile application development tools and services. It allows developers to integrate backend data, continuously improve apps based on user feedback, and deliver personalized experiences. The platform provides modular services for contextualizing apps, securing data, and gaining insights from usage data. It supports both hybrid and native mobile application development.
This document provides guidance on planning for and implementing large-scale instances of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere and Response Time Tracking. It covers topics such as sizing servers, deploying components, ensuring high availability, and performing maintenance. The goal is to help organizations successfully manage thousands of applications and transactions across distributed environments.
This document provides guidance on planning for and implementing large-scale instances of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere and Response Time Tracking. It covers topics such as sizing servers, deploying components, ensuring high availability, and performing maintenance. The goal is to help organizations successfully manage thousands of applications and transactions across distributed environments.
This document provides an overview and guide to implementing an extended agent for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). It describes how to configure and use a TSM extended agent that allows TWS to execute TSM commands and integrate TSM backup operations with workload scheduling. The document includes chapters that provide background on TWS and TSM, describe the functions and code of the TSM extended agent, provide instructions for testing and using the agent through a case study, and offer sample scenarios for how the agent could be used to automate various TSM backup and recovery processes.
This document provides an overview and instructions for implementing the IBM System Storage SAN32B-E4 Encryption Switch. It discusses the hardware components of the encryption switch and SAN Director Encryption Blades. It also covers the interaction between the encryption switches and Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager for centralized key management. The document includes steps for installing, configuring, and setting up the encryption switches as well as deployment scenarios.
This document provides a proof of concept guide for installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3. It includes information on system requirements, planning the installation, installing and configuring the Tivoli Storage Manager server and clients on Windows and UNIX (AIX) systems, and demonstration scenarios for common backup, restore, archive, and management tasks.
This document provides a proof of concept guide for installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3. It includes information on system requirements, planning the installation, installing and configuring the Tivoli Storage Manager server and clients on Windows and UNIX (AIX) systems, and demonstration scenarios to test the backup, restore, archive, and management capabilities of Tivoli Storage Manager.
The document provides information about implementing Tivoli Data Warehouse 1.2, including its features, architecture, planning considerations, and setup instructions. It covers topics such as hardware and software requirements, physical and logical design choices, database sizing, security, and skills required. The document also provides step-by-step instructions for installing and deploying Tivoli Data Warehouse in both a single machine and distributed environment.
This document provides an overview of the IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT portfolio. It discusses the challenges of IT asset management and introduces the concepts of software asset management and the new ISO/IEC 19770-1 software asset management standard. It then describes the architecture and components of the Tivoli Asset Management for IT solution, including the Tivoli License Compliance Manager, Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS, and Tivoli Asset Compliance Center products. The remainder of the document discusses these products in more detail and explains their capabilities for software inventory, license tracking, and reporting.
This document provides an overview and implementation details for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Network Performance V2.1. It describes the product's architecture including components like the web application, monitor functions, communication methods, and database structure. It then discusses two implementation scenarios: a distributed servers environment and a pure z/OS environment. Finally, it covers steps for installing and configuring the web application on AIX and z/OS mainframes.
This document is an IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 Implementation Certification Study Guide. It explains how to prepare for, install, configure and operate IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 in order to take Certification Test 593. It includes sample test questions and answers. The guide covers topics like prerequisite knowledge, planning an implementation, installation prerequisites, installing and configuring the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server.
This document is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 certification. It provides an overview of the certification exams, outlines the key topics covered in the exams, and recommends resources to help prepare. The guide discusses planning and requirements for deploying IBM Tivoli Monitoring, how to install the software, and how to configure the Tivoli Monitoring server. It also includes sample exam questions.
This document provides best practices for planning and implementing large scale IBM Tivoli Monitoring environments. It discusses hardware sizing, scalability considerations, and performance optimization for the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, Tivoli Data Warehouse, and Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring agents. Firewall configuration and historical data collection are also addressed. The goal is to help customers deploy Tivoli Monitoring in a way that meets their monitoring needs as their environments grow to support thousands of devices and applications.
The document discusses backing up DB2 databases using IBM Tivoli Storage Management. It covers all aspects of protecting DB2 databases on multiple platforms, including backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures. It provides practical scenarios and step-by-step instructions. The team that authored the document seeks comments to improve its content.
This document provides an overview and instructions for deploying and using IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.0. It describes how to plan, install, and configure the managing server and data collectors to monitor WebSphere application servers. It also provides guidance on using the monitoring console to analyze performance issues.
This document provides an overview and instructions for installing and using IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.0. It discusses planning the installation, installing the managing server and data collectors, configuring the system, and using the tool to monitor applications, troubleshoot performance issues, and determine problems with the tool.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for deploying IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 in small to large environments. It discusses planning the installation, defining the architecture, creating deployment plans, installing the various Tivoli Monitoring components, and configuring the system. The guide also covers demonstrations of a single machine proof of concept installation and a small installation using DB2 Workgroup Edition.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for deploying IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 in small to large environments. It covers installing and configuring the various Tivoli Monitoring components, including the database, Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS), Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, agents, and more. The guide also discusses backup strategies, uninstall procedures, and how to work with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client.
This document provides a guide for deploying the Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment V5.1. It discusses planning and architecture considerations for image management systems. It then covers installing the TPM server and creating profiles for deploying Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Linux operating systems in unattended and cloning modes. The document is intended to help IT professionals learn how to use TPM for OS deployment in their environment.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for deploying IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express V4.1 for Software Distribution. It describes how to install and configure the server and clients. It also explains how to use the software distribution and inventory components to manage software packages, distribute software, and gather hardware/software inventory. The guide includes best practices for infrastructure planning, installation, configuration, and ongoing administration using the product's management console.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for deploying IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express V4.1 for Software Distribution. It describes how to install and configure the server and clients. It also explains how to use the software distribution and inventory components to manage software packages, distribute software, and gather hardware/software inventory. The guide includes best practices for infrastructure planning, installation, configuration, customization and administration for small, medium and large environments.
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The document describes an exercise using IBM Mobile Quality Assurance (MQA) to test a mobile banking application and report bugs. Students will launch an Android emulator containing the instrumented app. They can test the app functionality and use MQA's in-app notification to report bugs found, such as a misspelled button label. MQA will capture screenshots which students can annotate to describe the issue. All bug reports are uploaded to MQA and viewed by instructors in Bluemix to share with the class. The goal is to introduce MQA's capabilities for mobile app testing and feedback.
This document provides an overview and instructions for installing and configuring the Tivoli Management Environment (TME) platform. It discusses planning the installation, installing TME software on UNIX and PC nodes, configuring the TME management regions and resources, creating administrators and policy regions, and diagnosing common installation issues. It also provides guidance on setting up backups and describes capabilities of the Tivoli/Courier deployment application for managing file packages.
This document provides an overview of firewalls and demilitarized zones (DMZs), and summarizes Tivoli Framework solutions for communicating across firewalls in a secure manner. It describes how Tivoli Framework 3.7.1 introduced single port bulk data transfer and endpoint upcall port consolidation to reduce open ports. The Firewall Solutions Toolbox further improves security with endpoint and gateway proxies, relays to cross multiple DMZs adhering to no direct routing, and supporting unidirectional communications. It also describes the event sink for collecting events from non-Tivoli sources.
This document provides an overview of planning and implementing Tivoli Data Warehouse Version 1.3. It discusses the key components of Tivoli Data Warehouse including the control center server, source databases, central data warehouse, data marts, warehouse agents, and Crystal Enterprise server. It also covers planning considerations such as hardware and software requirements, physical and logical design choices, database sizing, security, network traffic, and skills required. The document is intended as a guide for implementing and managing a Tivoli Data Warehouse.
This document provides an overview and guide for using Business Objects reporting tools with Tivoli Data Warehouse 1.2. It covers Business Objects products and platform, installing Business Objects desktop components, configuring Business Objects for Tivoli Data Warehouse, creating reports, advanced reporting and security features, and deploying reports. The document contains examples and step-by-step instructions for setting up Business Objects and generating simple to advanced reports on Tivoli Data Warehouse data.
This document discusses data synchronization features in IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.1, including delta detection, delta tagging, and delta application. Delta detection discovers changes in a data source and retrieves only the modified data. Delta tagging stores change information in the retrieved data using operation codes. Delta application then uses these tags to efficiently propagate only necessary changes to target systems.
This document discusses strategies for migrating and consolidating storage using IBM TotalStorage products. It describes migrating a storage volume from one SAN to another using IBM SAN Volume Controller without interrupting access. It also outlines two methods for migrating data between tape technologies using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: migrating individual nodes or migrating entire storage pools to a new tape technology.
This document provides guidance on deploying IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere (ITCAM for WebSphere). It includes sample code, installation instructions, and assistance with scope development for a services engagement with ITCAM for WebSphere. The document covers planning the engagement, demonstrating the key capabilities of ITCAM for WebSphere through a sample implementation, and implementing the full ITCAM for WebSphere solution. It also discusses complementary solutions that can be bundled with an ITCAM for WebSphere engagement.
This document provides guidance on migrating from IBM Service Level Reporter (SLR) to Tivoli Performance Reporter for OS/390. It describes the key differences between the two products and discusses different migration approaches. The bulk of the document consists of examples and step-by-step instructions for migrating different types of SLR data, including predefined SLR tables, user-defined tables, parameter tables, and reports. It also covers related tasks like setting purge conditions.
This document provides instructions for setting up and configuring IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On 8.1 in both single-server and clustered environments. It discusses installing and configuring the necessary software components like DB2, WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, and the IMS server. It also covers steps for configuration of these components as well as the IMS server for single sign-on functionality. The document is intended as a guide for carrying out an end-to-end installation and configuration of the IBM Tivoli Access Manager single sign-on solution.
ADSM is backup and recovery software that provides centralized management of backups. It includes components like backup clients, an administrative client, servers, and application clients. ADSM can back up and restore Windows NT systems and applications. It also enables disaster recovery through features like backing up to remote sites. Some common customer scenarios using ADSM include single server backup/recovery, adding additional NT servers, and separate onsite or remote ADSM servers with server-to-server communications.
This document provides an overview of service level management and describes how IBM Tivoli products can be used to implement it. It discusses the benefits of service level management, best practices for planning and executing an implementation, and the roles of key IBM Tivoli tools in areas like monitoring, reporting, and maintaining service level agreements. The goal is to help IT organizations better measure and manage service delivery to business users.
This document provides guidance on deploying Windows Vista using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. It discusses why an organization might choose to deploy Vista and whether to upgrade existing systems or replace them. It then provides step-by-step instructions for creating unattended and cloning Windows Vista profiles, registering hosts with the Tivoli server, creating a deployment scheme, and deploying the Vista profile to target systems. The goal is to help IT specialists successfully manage the deployment of Vista within their organizations.
This document provides instructions and guidance on using Tivoli's Application Response Measurement (ARM) agents. It discusses installing and configuring the ARM server and client agents on various platforms, collecting and reporting response time data, setting thresholds to monitor applications, and programming with the ARM API. The document is intended to help users set up an ARM environment and utilize ARM's monitoring capabilities within a Tivoli systems management framework.
This document provides guidance on migrating an existing IBM Encryption Key Manager (EKM) installation on z/OS to Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager for z/OS. There are several differences in how the two products manage encryption keys that must be taken into account during migration. The migration process involves moving the EKM configuration, keystore, drive information, and metadata into the TKLM environment. Proper permissions and preparations must be made before key data can be migrated from EKM to TKLM.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024
Deployment guide series tivoli continuous data protection for files sg247235
1. Front cover
Deployment Guide Series:
Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files
Step-by-step deployment guide for Tivoli
Continuous Data Protection for Files
Discusses best practices for
configuration options
User case scenarios,
including TSM integration
Vasfi Gucer
Wolfgang Beuttler
Jennifer Shaw
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Protection for Files
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16. Trademarks
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Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
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18. Jennifer Shaw has worked for IBM since 2000. She started working in SQA for
the Tivoli SANergy® software product. In 2002, she assisted the Tivoli SRM team
as the Globalization test lead. Starting in 2003, she was involved in the design,
project management, testing, and documentation of the FilePath project. In 2004,
she was test lead for the System test phase of Tivoli SANM and by 2005 became
the Installation test lead for the consolidated TPC product. Currently, she is
working on globalization, documentation, and testing for Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Arzu Gucer, Wade Wallace
International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center
Chris Stakutis, Jarrett Potts, Linda Sandmann, Pam Nesbitt
IBM USA
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22. 1.1 General overview of Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files
In today’s on demand business environment, productivity is paramount and
information is currency. Each day, gigabytes, or even terabytes, of new
information will be produced or existing data changed in an average business
environment. Some of the data is highly important and business critical, and
some is maybe not that important and of less interest.
Data and information are the key factors for companies to drive their business.
Therefore, companies need to protect their valuable and vulnerable assets
against loss, corruption, or unwanted alteration.
Losing critical business information not only results in application outages, but
can also lead to delays of important projects, diverted resources, or regulatory
scrutiny. Overall, these points are associated with fairly high costs.
In many businesses, protection of data may also be required by law. This
environment is driving IT managers to implement comprehensive solutions for
managing the recoverability of enterprise data.
The solution for this situation is to ensure recoverability through the automated
creation, tracking, and vaulting of reliable recovery points for all enterprise data.
And this is where Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files comes into play.
1.1.1 What is Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files?
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a real-time, continuous
data-protection solution for mobile computers, workstations, and personal
computers. It is specifically designed to work well even if network connections
are intermittent. But Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files also provides
continuous protection for file servers, reducing or eliminating backup windows
and the amount of data potentially lost in a failure.
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can back up your most important files
the moment they change instead of waiting for a scheduled backup. Non-critical
files are backed up periodically on a scheduled basis. It works in the background,
much like a virus scanner, and is therefore totally transparent to the end user.
Since Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files has a single end-point
architecture, there is no need for additional components, for example, a server
component. It only requires a single installation on the system with files to be
protected.
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23. Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files keeps the protected instances of files
in their natural format and does not modify them or encode them in a proprietary
format. The advantage of maintaining files in their native format is that they are
directly accessible and available by any application.
To protect files and make them available for date-based restore, Tivoli
Continuous Data Protection for Files creates up to three separate copies of files:
On local disk for protection, even when not connected to a network
On a network file system for remote machine protection
By using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) for use in more sophisticated
enterprises
Table 1-1 demonstrates the differences between Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files and traditional backup approaches.
Table 1-1 Comparison between Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files and traditional
backup solutions
Tivoli Continuous Data Traditional backup
Protection for Files solutions
When to protect Continuous for highly Scheduled, full system
important files, scheduled
for others
How to detect Journal-based on all file Journal-based on some file
systems systems
Where copies are stored Disk only, locally or remote; Typically on tape
IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager (TSM)
Storage format Left “native”, online as files Wrapped into a proprietary
format
Management / Simplified per-client Client-server concept;
administration administration only server component typically
complexity more expensive/complex
So overall, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files provides simple, effective
and real-time file protection for:
Accidental file deletion
File corruption
Unwanted file alteration
Disk crashes
Other unforeseen disasters
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24. 1.1.2 Why Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is needed
As already mentioned, driving a company’s business is based on the availability
of information and data. Though this should be enough to understand why it is
mandatory to protect this data and information, there are several other facts that
make this point even clearer:
In many companies, about 60-70% of corporate data resides on desktops,
mobile computers, and workstations, which are rarely backed up or not
backed up at all.
Almost half of the small and medium sized businesses admit to having no
formal data protection procedure.
Data growth is increasing rapidly.
The loss of productivity due to data loss on endpoints is a growing concern.
Virus and data corruption on file servers is an increasing problem.
– Companies need better recovery point capabilities.
Today’s backup and recover solutions are difficult and tend to miss the most
valuable data (what the user is working on now).
Mobile computer/desktop data protection a growing problem:
– Corporate data centers are reluctant to take on mobile computer
management.
– The business impact of lost data on mobile computers/desktops is
increasing:
• Specific segments, such as law firms, medical practices, consulting,
and so on, can have a very significant impact to productivity and
liability.
• The aggregate impact to large corporations is significant.
With this in mind, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is designed to help
alleviate clients' concerns and provide simple, effective, and efficient data
protection and integrity. Key client issues driving the requirements for continuous
data protection are:
Critical information assets are being stored across the organization; they are
no longer consolidated on just a few key servers.
The complexity and expense associated with the replication of information
assets across an organization.
A shortage of skilled people resources, which demands that highly automated
tools be deployed to help allow consistent practices across platforms,
minimize human error, and improve the amount of storage a single storage
administrator can handle.
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25. Meeting service-level objectives by providing continuous availability of data.
The integrity of data for governance and security requirements.
Backups made “only” on a daily basis allow too much productivity loss.
One of the current market trends is the steadily declining cost of disk storage
(local hard drives, SAN disks, removable disks, NAS devices, and so on). This
trend makes file protection using replication technologies more cost effective
compared to traditional backup/recovery solutions, which mostly use tapes as
their storage repository.
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files anticipates this development through
its unique approach as being a combination of both a traditional backup and
recovery solution using modern data replication techniques. In the long term, this
approach will not only lead to a better utilization of the available technical
infrastructure and improved labor productivity, but also yield to positive monetary
effects. For more information about the value proposition and the benefits of
using Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, refer to 1.4, “Value proposition
of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files” on page 13.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files 5
26. Figure 1-1 summarizes the key points of why Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files is needed in business environments these days.
Why is Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files needed?
1. Increases in data volume lead to
extended length of backup window.
Recovery from a Recovery from tape
disk image copy
2. Business and regulatory requirements
for data continuity are increasing.
3. Disk costs are declining, making
replication technologies more cost
Cost
effective.
4. Critical data assets found in remote
offices, mobile computers, and
desktops are often not protected.
Recovery Time Objective
5. Employee productivity declines with
difficult recovery of data, recreation of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
lost assets. delivers faster recovery of file assets
Figure 1-1 Why Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is needed
1.1.3 Who should use Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files?
Due to the concept and design of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, it
can be used to protect private mobile computers or personal computers at home
as well as workstations or large file servers in business critical environments.
Generally speaking, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files should be used by
everyone who has the need to continuously protect files in real time.
Anyhow, this section concentrates on business clients only, but most of the points
mentioned here are also valid for individuals using Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files as their private data-protection solution at home.
Ideally, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can be used by organizations
with multiple locations, departments, and file servers that have information
assets used for client relationships and revenue activity necessary to the value
and operation of the business.
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27. Clients whose IT infrastructure includes desktops and mobile computers where
information assets exist that are often not protected adequately or frequently are
also a good candidate for using Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files.
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can also be of interest for enterprise
clients with large file servers already using traditional backup solutions like IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) or VERITAS NetBackup. Due to the amount of
data needed to be backed up, large file servers are often unable to meet their
backup window. Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can help by reducing
or almost eliminating those backup windows and is therefore a perfect
complement to traditional backup solutions.
Overall, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files may be the answer when:
Clients are considering buying disks as an alternative to tape for simpler
administration and configuration and faster recovery service levels.
Clients view data as a major corporate asset.
Clients are considering snapshot technologies; with Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files, there is no need to understand more IT-savvy concepts
such as “snapshots” and how maintain, configure, and age such elements.
Clients are concerned about their ability to meet service and availability levels
with a minimal to zero backup window.
Skilled storage administrators are difficult to find or retain.
Employee productivity suffers due to human errors causing data loss and lost
time recreating data.
Clients are considering a backup solution for remote offices
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is ideal for remote office servers,
as it will locally version and protect highly important files and migrate data
back to corporate servers while tolerating network spottiness.
System administrators need a centralized and automated way to protect the
information residing on a mix of heterogeneous computers distributed
throughout a network.
System administrators need their computer systems to be online 24x7 with
minimum CPU or network impact during data protection operations.
The organization is considering how to easily protect information assets found
on individual desktops, and mobile computers with minimum administration.
The organization needs to protect critical files from alteration or deletion,
viruses, and corruption
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files allows users to protect critical
corporate assets by preventing deletion or alteration of active files by end
users, viruses, or file corruption.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files 7
28. 1.1.4 Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files and the IBM
TotalStorage Open Software Family
Now that we know what Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is used for
and why it is needed, this section shows how Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files fits into the current IBM TotalStorage® Open Software Family. Figure 1-2
shows this in more detail.
IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family
Storage Orchestration
Storage
Storage
Storage Hierarchical
Hierarchical Archive Recovery
Archive Recovery
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Storage
Storage Management Management
Management Management
Management
Management Management
Management
for
for for for for for for for for for for for for
Application
Data Fabric Disk Replication Files Files Mail SAP Files Databases Mail SAP
Servers
Storage Virtualization
SAN SAN
Volume File
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Figure 1-2 Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files and the IBM TotalStorage Open
Software Family
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is part of the recovery management
products of the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family, and is specifically
developed to be a real-time protection solution for files.
Others products belonging to the recovery management products category are,
for example, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases, IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager for Application Servers, or IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail.
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29. 1.2 How Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
works
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a new backup paradigm using a
unique hybrid approach by combining modern replication technologies together
with traditional backup methods. It does so by taking all the benefits from each
technology and uniting them together into a completely new product: Tivoli
Continuous Data Protection for Files.
Figure 1-3 shows this new paradigm as well as the benefits taken from both
replication and traditional backup approaches.
Tivoli
Traditional Continuous
Replication Data
backups
Protection
for Files
• To-disk duplication • Versioning of files
• Lightning fast • Point-in-time restore
• Real-time for high- • Central administration
importance files
• Archiving (vaulting)
• Tolerant of transient
networks • Retention
• Multiple targets • Highly scalable
Figure 1-3 Unique hybrid approach of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
Chapter 1. Introduction to Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files 9
30. But how does it work? Figure 1-4 gives a general overview on how Tivoli
Continuous Data Protection for Files works.
When a file is saved or changed:
A copy is stored on a local disk, partition.
Another copy can be stored on a file server,
NAS device, SAN disk, external USB disk.
Another copy can be sent to a TSM Server.
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Figure 1-4 General overview of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
Whenever a file is changed or created, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for
Files notices it. If this file type is tagged as a high-priority continuous type (per
the settings, such as a Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint®, Excel®, or other Office
files), an immediate copy is made into a so-called backup area (a separate
directory tree) on the local disk to avoid cluttering the natural location for the file.
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files will store many versions of each file
(typically up to 20) subject to a “pool size” that can be configured. When the pool
is full, the oldest copies (versions) are removed to make room for newer ones.
The same file can also be sent to a remote storage area, such as a file server,
NAS device, SAN disk, and so on, for off-machine protection. If the remote file
server is not currently available (perhaps due to not being in the network at the
time), then the changed file is remembered and sent as soon as the network
appears to be functioning. The files sent to the remote file server in this mode will
have only a single instance stored (that is, not versioned), since they are
versioned locally.
Another copy of the file can be sent to an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
server, as Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files has special built-in support
for TSM. Traditionally, TSM is a data protection product often used in larger
business environments. Those clients might find Tivoli CDP for Files useful as a
real-time client solution for mobile computers and workstations, yet still want
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31. most of the protected data to ultimately be managed by a TSM server. To use this
feature, a TSM client needs to be installed on the same system as Tivoli
Continuous Data Protection for Files and a TSM server needs to be available in
the network.
If scheduled protection has been enabled, then all other “non-important”
changing files will be noticed by Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files and
queued for transmission to the remote file server based on the interval that has
been selected. When the interval expires, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for
Files will copy all of the changed files to the remote file server, or wait if the file
server is not currently available.
All those types of protection offered by Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
(continuous or scheduled, local or remote) can be easily configured by the end
user in any combination. This allows the user to protect his assets in a highly
flexible manner.
To summarize how Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files works, we have to
differentiate between high-priority (important) and all other files:
High-priority files:
– Specify up to three target areas for high priority files.
– The target area(s) will capture every save of a file when it occurs.
– The local target area is auto-managed as a pool with a configurable size.
– Old versions are deleted to make room for new versions.
– The local area allows untethered restores.
– There is an option to specify a remote file server for off-machine
protection; it is still real-time, but tolerant of being disconnected.
– There is an option to specify a IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server
for off-machine protection; it is still real-time, but tolerant of being
disconnected.
All other files:
– All other files are protected on a periodic basis by being sent to the remote
file server or IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server.
– Change-journal eliminates having to take processor resources to scan the
file system.
– Files are “versioned” on a remote file server, allowing for point-in-time
restore.
– Remote versions are automatically managed to a configurable pool size.
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32. 1.3 Main features of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files
While writing this redbook, the current version of Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files was Version 2.1. The main features of this version are:
Continuous protection of important files without doing a thing.
When a file is saved:
– A copy is stored on local disk.
– Another copy can be sent to a file server, NAS device, SAN disk, and so
on.
– Another copy can be sent to an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server
Real-time data protection.
High/low priority files options
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files allows high important files to be
backed up continuously as soon as they change. Less important files can be
saved on a periodic (scheduled) basis, for example, once a day.
File include/exclude options
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files offers the usage of include/exclude
lists. By using them, the client can define precisely what type of files will be
monitored for protection. On the other hand, he can also specify a list of files
or directories that will be ignored by Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for
Files and thus not backed up or vaulted.
Tolerant of transient networks
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is designed to work well even if
network connections are intermittent. If a remote storage area like, for
example, a file server is currently not reachable due to network problems,
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files will remember the changes made
to the file and send it as soon as the network appears to be functioning again.
Versioning of files.
Point-in-time restore.
Archive retention.
Scalable.
Small foot print
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can be installed in a few minutes
on a system and will only take about 43 MB of disk space.
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33. Simplified management / central administration
Due to its simplified management concept, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files provides a central administration interface that allows the end user to
restore his own files fast and easy.
No server component required.
Maintain native file format
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files maintains files in their natural
format and does not encode them in a proprietary format or modify them in
any other way.
Open architecture.
1.4 Value proposition of Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files
For business units dependent on data availability and rapid data recovery, Tivoli
Continuous Data Protection for Files provides uniquely efficient and effective
data protection to ensure business continuity, employee productivity, and integrity
of information assets.
For storage managers and administrators responsible for protecting data while
containing cost, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files simplifies
heterogeneous storage management and provides real options for an integrated
data protection solution across all information assets.
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files:
Provides easy to use data protection and integrity, reducing the cost of
training staff to use it.
Improves employee productivity by providing real-time backups of data, so no
matter when a failure occurs, the recovery can be to the latest version, not the
last time a scheduled backup ran.
Improves IT productivity and labor resource utilization because end users can
more easily recover files without IT involvement.
Improves network and bandwidth usage, as it is optimized to send data
through network only when it is connected and most efficient with no user or
IT manual intervention required.
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34. The value proposition using Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can be
summarized as follows:
Reduced or eliminated backup window
– Improved backup resource utilization
– Better return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
Note: In finance, the return on investment (ROI)a or just return is a
calculation used to determine whether a proposed investment is wise, and
how well it will repay the investor. It is calculated as the ratio of the amount
gained (taken as positive), or lost (taken as negative), relative to the basis.
Total cost of ownership (TCO)b is a financial estimate designed to help
consumers and enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs
related to the purchase of any capital investment, such as (but not limited
to) computer software or hardware.
a. Definition taken from article “Return on investment”, found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_on_investment
b. Definition taken from article “Total cost of ownership”, found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_cost_of_ownership
Improved recovery point objective (RPO)
– Reduced loss of data
– Improved productivity
Note: The RPO can be thought of as the degree of difference between the
active online data and the disaster recovery copy of that data. A RPO of
zero would mean that the primary copy and the disaster recovery copy are
in exact synchronization. A failure would result in zero loss of data.
Improved recovery time objective (RTO)
– User initiated restore, zero administration intervention
– Optional recovery from disk (local or remote)
Note: The RTO is the amount of time after a failure that someone is willing
to spend before a given application or group of data is back up and
available. A RTO of zero means that failures should cause zero disruption.
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35. 1.4.1 Benefits of using Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
Using Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files has the following benefits:
Simplified storage management may save IT and end-user labor.
Continuous data protection provides data integrity when viruses and
corruption attack systems.
Reduces or eliminates backup windows.
Optimizes integration to network and enterprise data protection solutions.
Optimizes bandwidth and network transfer of data.
Continuously protects versions of files to allow clients a choice of recovery
points.
Ability to write-protect data locally even when not connected in case of virus,
corruption, logical error, or user error.
Ability to send data to heterogeneous backup devices: disk, NAS, USB, local
partition, and LUN from SAN.
1.4.2 Unique differentiators
The following unique differentiators of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
have been identified:
Fast time to deployment
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can be installed, configured, and
running by an end user in a few minutes as one, single back-end solution.
Ease of daily use
No need to understand more IT-savvy concepts such as "snapshots" and how
to maintain, configure, and age such elements.
Elimination or reduction of backup windows
Backup-target flexibility
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files allows the target of the backup to
be any type of modern disk-based storage device, be it a USB device, an
enterprise storage array, a closed-architecture Network Attached Storage
(NAS), such as NetApp or Snap, or another logical unit number (LUN) from
the Storage Area Network (SAN).
Easily integrates into traditional backup solutions
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files integrates naturally with IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager (TSM) as well as the backup target device, which can be
backed up by any off-the-shelf data protection package.
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36. Effective backup for remote systems and traveling users
Unique ability to locally cache versions when working disconnected and
re-synchronize with a file system or device when reconnected makes it ideal
for the remote/mobile user.
Effective backup for remote offices
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is ideal for remote office servers as
it will locally version and protect high-importance files and migrates data back
to corporate servers while tolerating network spottiness.
Simple backup for department solutions
Anyone, even with low administrative skills, can add Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files to a department file server and now has real-time file
protection (even if just locally).
User productivity
With Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, you can be assured that
there is no loss of productivity due to re-creation of lost work. Other
backup/recovery solutions offer near continuous protection: once an hour, or
once a day, which simply is not as effective as continuous data protection is.
Automating manual process to protect all corporate assets
Users do not need to save to corporate systems for data protection and audit
purposes; Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files automatically protects
all changes to files (even when not connected to the corporate network), and
provides a version level audit trail for changes.
Protect critical files from alteration or deletion, viruses, and corruption
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files allows users to set protections for
critical corporate assets to prevent deletion or alteration of LIVE/active files
from end-user error, a virus, or corruption.
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38. 2.1 Product architecture
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a relatively simple product that has
just enough controls and options to allow for a wide range of different
configurations. At its core, the program operates at the kernel level of the
operating system, monitoring all file operations. It keeps track of all pertinent
activities and performs other operations based on the configuration. So, Tivoli
Continuous Data Protection for Files knows when you open files, when you close
them, and whether or not you have changed the file when you close it. When
there is a change saved, this is noted and a new version of the file is replicated to
one or more locations, either immediately, or at a later time.
The underlying technology was designed to be a general file system extension
tool that can be presented to the end user in a variety of different formats, for
different purposes. The current product, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for
Files, mostly exploits the function of “copy-on-close replication.”
2.1.1 Main components
The main components of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files are:
Kernel
fp.sys1: This is the driver that loads when the computer boots up. It is located
in %WINDIR%System32Drivers.
User
– FilePathSrv.exe: This is the daemon, or process, that starts as a service
(CDPforFilesSrv). If you are running in regular user mode, this service will
stop right away until it has something to do. If you are running in service
mode, the service will stay active. To run it from a command prompt, type
filepathsrv -d. It is located in the Installation directory.
– fpa.exe: This is the command line, interactive program that passes
commands to the kernel. It can be used to set tracing levels. It is located in
the Installation directory.
2.1.2 Capabilities
The kernel layer of the product performs a number of activities:
Audit: Watches file activity, particularly noting files that are closed with new
data.
Write Once Read Many (WORM): Prevents I/O or any alteration to files.
1
The underlying technology of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is called FilePath. “fp” is
shorthand for FilePath. Some internal components are called fp or use fp as a prefix.
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39. Mirroring: Kernel-based I/O mirroring: Inactive in the current product.
Replication: Notification of files that are replicated.
The kernel layer is based on a set of rules that set up the conditions under which
certain activities, or actions, are performed. The rules and actions come
pre-configured to make the product act as designed. When Tivoli Continuous
Data Protection for Files performs a basic local backup of a file that has changed,
the kernel is obeying a chained set of rules and actions. A basic chain includes:
Rule: When should the action occur? “On Open,” “On Write”
or “On Close”.
Meta rules (optional): What conditions apply? For example, it does not fall
under the exclusion list, and it matches *.ppt (or
something from the inclusion list).
Action: What to do if the rules are true? Trigger a replication,
block I/O to this file (Vault action).
All of the basic rule-action chains required for Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files to function properly are kept in XML format in the file fpa.txt.
Important: Do not edit the fpa.txt file. First, you might change something in
one of the rule-action chains, which will cause the product to become
unstable. Second, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files updates the file
from time to time, so you might lose some information by saving over
necessary changes.
The daemon, or process, handles the following activities:
Executing the replication, or copy-on-close
Driving the scheduled protection
Displaying updated information in the GUI
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40. See Figure 2-1 for an illustration of the relationship between the kernel layer and
the daemon or driver.
KERNEL
FPQ: Critical Kernel injects commands; Audits accumulate in the
component. mostly to kick-off replication kernel and are batch-
Priority-based activities, but other dumped to daemon for
queue. Both round- maintenance too. speed. Platform
trip (synchronous)
and one-way. Audit
Options include Manipulation of
“punt if full” or FPQ buffer live database
“block if full.” IOCTL interface
-Inject XML
-Get Audit buffer
-Get database, etc
Agent has a thread that is always HTML listener
in a “read()” to get next queue Replication
command; Does a “write()” to Audit
thread Service threads
respond.
(up to 10)
Interactive FPA
Main
thread
AGENT
Figure 2-1 Agent-driver interaction
2.1.3 Directories and files
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files uses a file-based architecture; it has
no special or proprietary databases to hold files or keep track of the file activities
it is monitoring. Instead, it uses the native file system and files as databases,
including the generations database, which keeps track of file versions and
changes.
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41. See Table 2-1 for a description of the critical files in the product architecture.
Table 2-1 Summary of files in Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
File/Folder name Purpose
System Operation
fp.sys Main driver for the product.
FilePathSrv.exe Daemon that monitors file activity in the kernel.
fpa.txt A database where main “rules” and some
configuration information is stored.
Replication
replication.log Contains the last 1.3 MB of replication
transactions.
replication-queued.Na Contains a list of the replication activities that are
currently in the queue.
replication-active.N Contains a list of the files currently being
replicated.
replication-failed.N Contains a list of the replication failures; this list is
not limited by size and will continue to grow over
the life of the product.
Scheduled Protection
ChangeJournal.log Contains a list of all the files pending for
scheduled protection.
ChangeJournal.log_1_inprocess Contains the instance that is currently being
processed.
ChangeJournal.log_2_last Lists the last file processed during scheduled
protection.
ChangeJournal.log_LastSuccess Holds the date and time of the last successful
replication; this is reported in the GUI.
RemoteVersions.log Holds an entry for each “versioned” file put at the
target.
sysprotect_tsm_expire_out Holds the output of the last batch sent to TSM.
purge_struggled.log Lists the files that appear unreachable during a
purge.
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42. File/Folder name Purpose
Local Pool
LocalPool.log List of all files currently in the local pool.
gendb A directory tree that holds version names of files
that have been replicated, along with the dates to
facilitate purging the pool.
TSM (in the CDP mode)
TSMAuditFile-queue.log List of files currently accumulating for backup.
TSMAuditFile-active.log List of files currently being sent to TSM.
TSMAuditFile-active.log_2_pack List of files after duplicates have been removed.
TSMAuditFile-active.log_3_select List of files sent to TSM for backup.
TSMAuditFile-active.log_4_expire List of files sent to TSM for deletion.
TSMout.log Last total output from TSM of both select and
expire operations.
a. N refers to the priority given by the configuration to the different replication ac-
tivities. If you have files being replicated at different priority levels, you will have
multiple files; one for each priority level. See “Advanced settings” on page 40 for
more information on priority levels.
2.1.4 Daemon architecture
The daemon runs several threads to perform its various functions. They are:
Queue thread
Audit thread
Sysprotect
TSM thread
HTML listener
Replication thread(s)
Queue thread
When the kernel needs something done that can only be done in user mode, it
creates a “Queue” entry, posts it, and usually waits for a response from the
daemon. The main daemon thread is the queue reader, which loops in a read().
There are about six commands that the queue thread may be asked to perform,
but the most important one in this product is “Do a replication.” For each
replication request at a given priority level, a file is opened and appended with
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43. the specifics of the replication request. These files are in XML format. (See the
Replication section of Table 2-1 on page 21 for a description of these files.)
These files are monitored by the replication threads that are described below.
Audit thread
The main purpose for the audit thread is to wake up periodically and ask the
kernel to dump its audit/log buffers. The audit buffers capture file change events
that are used by Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files for scheduled
protection and other activities. The daemon sleeps for a few seconds, and then
drains any messages in the buffer (via an IOCTL request into the kernel). The
buffer is formatted as a list of XML messages; each message indicates both the
file to add this message to, and the message. The message can be anything
defined by the “action,” and is typically in XML format itself. It includes various
expanders (substitutions) for such things as filename, and so on. The following is
an example of a message:
<change vfs=”Unlink” src=”C:fpbuildchk.log” other=””size=”10697”
app=”System”/>
The ChangeJournal (sysprotect) rules/actions cause these audits to be
accumulated into a file called ChangeJournal.log in the installation directory. The
LocalPool rule causes audits to accumulate the locally versioned files into the
LocalPool.log file.
Sysprotect
When this thread is started, its job is to perform a scheduled protection by
addressing all of the files listed in the ChangeJournal.log file. This thread is
started either on a periodic bases, or when the user selects Backup Now under
the Scheduled Protection section of the Status window. When started, the thread
will do the following:
1. Detect if the file ChangeJournal.log_1_inprocess exists, and process that file.
2. Automatically rename ChangeJournal.log to ChangeJournal.log_1_inprocess
so that audits can continue to accumulate.
3. Process the ChangeJournal.log_1_inprocess file and record each line to the
ChangeJournal.log_2_last file.
To minimize audit traffic, the kernel side keeps a hash of files that have been
altered (tabulation) and avoids issuing multiple audits for files that have been
repeatedly altered. This hash has a 2,000 file limit and then it cycles. Sysprotect
also ignores the “vfs” mentioned in the log (see example message above) and
determines what to do based on the current version of a file. For example, if the
source file is missing, presume that an “unlink” should be performed.
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44. The Sysprotect thread also performs the function of remote pool management.
Every time a version is created on the remote target, an entry is made in the
RemoteVersions.log file. The ServerPool metric is increased by the versioned
file’s size, and this metric is compared against the ServerPoolQuota metric that
was configured in the Remote Space Configuration section of the Advanced
Settings window in the Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files GUI. If the
metric indicates that the pool size is over the quota, the following actions are
performed:
1. The RemoteVersions.log file is consumed, one line at a time, deleting the
oldest files and removing the file name from the list.
2. This continues until the pool size is at least 20% under the threshold size.
3. The remainder of the RemoteVersions.log file replaces itself.
4. Files deleted are logged as “unlinks” in the Replication.log file.
5. Deletions that fail are logged to either:
– purge_failed.log: Generally when users have cleaned up the pool by
deleting files themselves, in which case the pool size metric is decreased.
– purge_struggled.log: Usually in the case of a network access type of error.
TSM thread
The TSM thread starts when a TSM backup occurs for the “real time” processing
activity.
HTML listener
The HTML listener thread processes requests from the browser. The browser
displays the product GUI, which has information about configuration and settings
and is also used by the user to change configuration settings.
Replication thread(s)
The replication threads manage the replication activity. They are file-centric, and
they monitor the replication files. The queue thread places the list of files to be
replicated in a replication-queued.N file, where N is the priority. The replication
thread automatically renames this to a replication-active.N file and then
processes the replications in priority order. If the replication encounters a
permanent failure, the transaction gets logged in the replication-failed.N file. All
other transactions are posted to the replication.log file. These threads are
restartable and persistent, which makes them easy to trace for diagnosing
problems. Also, if the threads die, they will not stall the system. See Figure 2-2 on
page 25 for a diagram of this process.
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45. KERNEL
FPQ
AGENT
Repl-1
Repl-1
Replication-1
Main thread
thread
thread
thread
Replication- Replication-
Queued-Priority Active-Priority
Rename
Replication-
Failed-Priority Replication-Log
Figure 2-2 Replication threads
2.1.5 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager integration
Currently, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files works with TSM in the
following manner. You must have a TSM client set up on your system that is
pointing to an active TSM server. If you choose to have your files backed up to a
TSM server, either under Continuous or Scheduled protection, Tivoli Continuous
Data Protection for Files will create and maintain a separate file list of files that
have changed. See Table 2-1 on page 21 under the TSM section for a
description of these files.
When the time interval for protection has been reached, Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files will pass the file list on to TSM using the TSM client command
line. This command tells the server which files to back up. The files are selected
using the Include/Exclude lists you have set up in Tivoli Continuous Data
Protection for Files. However, the TSM server exclude list will be respected, so if
your changed file is on the TSM exclude list, it will not be backed up to the TSM
server. Just like regular remote replications, if you are not attached to the TSM
server when the time interval is reached, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for
Files will wait and retry.
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