I heard this is a great class to take. If anybody has taken this please
elaborate a little.
Course Code: TS520
Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1 Advanced Administration
Table of Contents:
Overview
Who Should Take This Course
What You Are Taught
Topics Include
Prerequisites
Duration: 4 Days
Delivery Method: Classroom (Hands-on Lab)
Skill Level: Advanced
Audience Type: Public/Private
Language: English
Tuition: $1995
Overview:
Learn to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager
database and recovery log for optimum performance and availability.
Develop the skills to run client and server trace
functions, write and execute server scripts, and recover corrupted
storage pool volumes. Learn to recover a
destroyed
Tivoli Storage Manager database and a database volume. Run
the Tivoli Storage Manager audit volume command
against primary storage pool volumes to determine if any of the
volumes are corrupted, then recover both a
corrupted
storage pool volume, as well as an entire primary storage
pool.
Get in-depth administration training for Tivoli
Storage Manager 4.1. This course is the follow-on to:
Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1 Administration
(TS51A)
Learn about key product enhancements for Tivoli
Storage Manager 4.1, such as integration with:
Tivoli Data Protection Agents
Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager
Tivoli Space Manager
Tivoli SANergy File Sharing
Tivoli Removable Media Manager
Tivoli Decision Support
IACET Continuing Education Units: 3.2
Who Should Take This Course:
System administrators, technical consultants, and
implementers who require in-depth knowledge of Tivoli Storage
Manager administration.
What You Are Taught:
Configure and administer Tivoli Storage
Manager's enterprise administration environment
Configure and administer Tivoli Storage
Manager's server-to-server virtual volumes environment
Perform both client and server trace
functions
Recover the Tivoli Storage Manager database,
or
a single Tivoli Storage Manager database volume
Recover a Tivoli Storage Manager primary
storage pool, or a single Tivoli Storage Manager primary storage
pool volume
Write and execute server scripts
Change key Tivoli Storage Manager
performance
parameters to their recommended values
Evaluate the need for products that
integrate
with Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager,
Tivoli Space Manager, Tivoli SANergy File
Sharing, Tivoli Data Protection agents, Tivoli Decision Support,
Tivoli Removable Media Manager, and EMC
Symetrics Timefinder
Topics Include:
Basics of Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1
High-level operational management
Mirror and storage pool volume determination
Working with tape libraries
Network capacity planning
Performance tuning
Problem determination and trace function
Tivoli Storage Manager reporting
Server-to-server virtual volumes
Day-to-day operations
Enterprise administration
Integration with Tivoli Storage Manager
Prerequisites:
You should complete:
Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1 Administration
(TS51A)
or have completed its previous versions:
ADSM Version 3 Implementation (SS50A) or
Tivoli Storage Manager 3.7 Implementation
(SS50B)
or have equivalent Tivoli Storage Manager
implementation knowledge and skills.
Bud Brown
Information Services
Systems Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR
Proc edure
All,
I think Kelly brings up a good point that, most of us don't get
to
practice disaster recovery very often. I know that there are plenty of
courses for TSM installation, configuration, and administration. Does
anyone know of available training with a strict focus on disaster
recovery
in theory and in practice? Unfortunately, I don't have a development or
test environment for doing this kind of training on my own.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR
Procedure
I'll put in a plug for my friend Wanda Prather. In the adsm.org
archives
you should find a very nice procedure developed by Wanda. Perhaps
she'll
post it here once more for those of us who missed it.
In general, the method is to install a bare bones OS from the
distribution
CDs, configure it, install the TSM client, configure it, and restore the
backup on top of the new installation. This is an easy procedure to
follow.
I'd like to see a side-by-side runoff between this and the BMR product
to
get an idea of the time difference.
OK, don't like this idea? How about using Ghost to periodically snap an
image of your OS (or perhaps have a generic one with TSM installed ready
to
go). Lose the disk? Ghost the image and do a restore from TSM to bring
the
image up-to-date.
As for restoring your TSM server. That is very easy if you have three
things: a database backup, the devconfig.out file and the volhist.out
file.
>From these three items, I can restore your TSM server in four hours of
less
(very dependent on the size of the database: for very small databases,
you're probably looking at less than an hour, start to finish). The
problem
with this is most of us never practice it. In my job I have the fortune
of
getting to do this periodically (monthly) so I've gotten pretty
confident so
to me it's easy. I recommend doing it the first time when you don't
have
to. When you have to do it, nerves take over and the process is much
harder.
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Coats, Jack
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
W here's the Air Support?
Does anyone have a good recovery senario for NT and / or Novell?
I am going into a DR test soon and will be requrired to recover several
of each, including the TSM server! :(
Yep, it sounds like TSM did a fubar depending on a small vendor
to remain autonimous in the backup/restore/disaster recovery market.
Veritas has good products too. I have sold both TSM and Veritas
NetBackup. I still like TSM but it is a harder sell quite often.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION
OF
> TSM!! W here's the Air Support?
>
> I echo Kelly!
> Another marketing slip?:
> Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for
> bare
> metal recovery for NT, windows, from
> what I heard). This product went unsupported....THEN the pitch for
bare
> metal recovery was to use/buy...
> a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was
bought
> out by Veritas.
> SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor
owns?
> marketing slip....
> there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL
RECOVERY
> I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say
about
> this one as well....!!!
>
> Thanks Tim Williams
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
> Where's the Air Support?
>
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp
>
> Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a
single
> mention of TSM? Where is the crack marketing team? We need
desperately
> to
> have air support on an issue like this. The IBM TSM folks who listen
hear
> should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks. It is very hard
to
> sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is
full
> backups!
>
> This kept me up all night. Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
> library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent. I eat, sleep and
> breath TSM. Can I have some help please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> PO Box 51313
> Colorado Springs, CO 80949
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
> (719)531-5926
> Fax: (240)539-7175
