Hi, I'm a complete novice to TSM. We currently manage a large network of UNIX servers (mixture of AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Tru64) and have recently taken over support of a small group of AIX servers (5 of them) that consist of an TSM Backup server and 4 clients. The machines run Oracle databases and so have two types of backup, the standard backup and a backup of the oracle datafiles using rman. The majority of our other servers are backed up using Legato Networker and so we use OpenViews ability to monitore plain text files to check the status of the backups (simply checking /nsr/logs/messages for Failed or Succeeded). I realise that things are not so simple with TSM. However, we would really like a way of automatically checking the status of the backups and then calling a script to raise OV alerts if a failure is detected.
An additional complication is that because of the network config between ourselves and these new servers we cannot receive SNMP traps. Does anyone have any experience doing this ? Given that my knowledge of TSM is extemely limited (I'm currently reading the TSM Concepts and Implementation Redbooks) I realise that I may be approaching this from completely the wrong direction but I'd appreciate any constructive advice. many thanks Alex