Cognos will provide you a method for trending reports which you won't get with other products.
Lee Miller Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery Development and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager Phone: 817-874-7484 From: Skylar Thompson <skyl...@u.washington.edu> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/06/2015 08:14 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Monitoring/Reporting Cognos Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Also can't speak to Cognos, but Servergraph can do all of those reports too. On 09/04/2015 07:12 PM, Steven Harris wrote: > Hi Dwight, > > Not perhaps what you are looking for, but Tsmmanager has reports to do all > of those out of the box. Just not sure if you can automate the last one, > you may be able to, just have never had the need myself. > > Regards, > > Steve > > Steven Harris, > TSM admin, > Canberra, Australia > On 5 Sep 2015 12:17 am, "Dwight Cook" <coo...@cox.net> wrote: > >> OK, recently IBM created Operations Center but also included ~monitoring & >> reporting~ through COGNOS. >> >> >> >> Has anyone been taking advantage of that for anything? >> >> >> >> I'm looking at setting it up and what I'm hoping it can do is: >> >> >> >> Trend each individual client's activity over time (backup bytes, archive, >> restore, retrieve, etc.) >> >> Trend each TSM server as a whole over time (backup bytes, archive, restore, >> retrieve, etc.) >> >> Trend same as above but for auditocc >> >> Report on things like spikes in incremental backups (so if a box typically >> sends less than 10 GB. if it jumps to 50 GB, report on it) >> >> >> >> Just would like to know if anyone has played around with any of this yet. >> >> >> >> I've been trying out Operations Center but that doesn't have any long term >> reporting and missing things that I really want and I hope I can get Cognos >> to fill the bill. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Dwight >> >> >> >> (where is Wanda when ya need her) >> -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354