Douglas, TDS is not so bad but we recommend it for customers having a bunch of Tivoli products. This is where the product is targeted. For TSM only reporting try to look at Servergraph/TSM (www.servergraph.com). It is TSM dedicated tool, less expensive and easier to install/maintain. Look through adsm.org archives for opinions on it.
Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: TSM Reporting tool advice My client has a Service Level Agreement with his customers that assures them of a minimum of one full (selective) backup of their workstations per year. There are currently in excess of 1500 workstations and 300 servers that are TSM clients. It is a simple matter to identify the workstations and schedule TSM to run the backups. What isn't so simple is to find/develop a tool that reports success or failure of scheduled backups via e-mail or some other such means. My client prefers commercial-off-the-shelf products so Tivoli Decision Support will, obviously, be investigated. Does anyone know of any other products that could be used? I have not heard anything encouraging about Tivoli Decision Support and if doesn't work out then I'll be writing my own tool with the ODBC driver and the TSM API, (probably on a Windows platform :-(. Has anyone done this before. Please don't question the wisdom of promising users a yearly full backup of their workstations - it's a done deed! Thank you. ______________________________________________________________________ Games, Movies, Music & Sports! http://entertainment.yahoo.ca