Here are three others that I know of... Servergraph/TSM, CA/Vantage and StorServer Manager. We are testing out Servergraph/TSM and we are happy with this one. Most places will give you 30 days trial.
Dave Pearson > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Currell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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
