Greetings We have Servergraph, and for a site our size (2100 TSM clients, 6 sites, 22 TSM server instances) it is a great help. We use the Alerts, and the threshold emails, and it has helped us avert disaster from a filled TSM database, or out of scratch tapes, etc. With four people managing 22 TSM servers, there isn't time to watch everything that can be happening on all of them all the time, so you need good alerting. And it is easy to add alerts, which we have done as our circumstances required.
There are graphs that have helped us spot bottle necks and tune performance, too. It also has a couple things that I have not seen anywhere else, like the hog report which shows which clients are using the most storage. The first time we looked at that we figured out that we had several Oracle clients where RMAN was not expiring old data, and the backup data was just growing continuously. Catching that misconfiguration saved us something like 20TBs of tape. It also has a report of missed filespaces. We had a lot of Unix TSM clients where filesystems had been deleted or renamed over time, but TSM still had the old filespace data backed up for them, even though that filespace hadn't been backed up in a year! Cleaning those up reduced wasted space. There are times in which the threshold emails are a little buggy. When a log crosses a threshold of say, 70%, it sends out a page saying it has crossed the threshold, but not which way. In other words, when it goes above 70% it warns you, but later on when it drops below 70% it sends out another email with the same subject line! I would have expected the subject line to say it has dropped below the threshold and you can stop worrying, but instead it just says you have crossed the threshold. If you read the text of the email it explains what it means, but the subject line could be more helpful. Another buggy alert happened when we migrated all the data from one storage pool to another with "move data". A few days later all the tapes in the original storage pool expired and became scratches, and Servergraph spit out an alert saying that the storage pool had reached 100% full! So apparently a storage pool that shrinks to 0 tapes in it is 100% full. But aside from a couple idiosyncracies like that, it has performed well and added a lot of peace of mind to running our environment. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-750-8721 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hshahizul Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Anybody test Servergraph .. Hi, Anybody has ever test Servergraph. I wish to test this Servergraph but than. so terrible in getting the trail version. I wish to test this product before recommend to customer. By the way, I am freelancer doing TSM Installation & TSM Support to several customer. They want to know who is your customer, do they have money to pay .and yet never tell you how much is their product. Is this product really good ? Tq This e-mail contains information which (a) may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering this to the addressee(s), you are notified that reading, copying or distributing this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately.