Some people on the list DO object to vendor self-interested posts - so there is an advertising-related place at www.adsm.org. Refresh it a few times (5?) and you should see all the banner ads.
It's a dilemma for us, certainly - we're big fans of TSM, and want to support the TSM community with our reporting product. But NOBODY wants to see this excellent list degenerate into nothing-but-ads. So we sometimes offer tips that we've learned while building Servergraph/TSM (like, the summary table is unreliable and not real-time), but try to avoid blatant self-promotion. If we see that other vendors ARE using the list inappropriately... well, we just hope people will do enough research to find the products that work best. --------------------------------- Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Richard Cowen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization, and other Reporting Concerns > > > If the List doesn't mind occasional vendor self-interested posts, I would > like to offer one for CNT's TSM Reporting Service. This is just > one aspect > of a more encompassing offering of TSM consulting and implementation > services, but it may be germane to this thread. If we get a volunteer > reviewer, I would be happy to send sample HTML's.... > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization > > > TSMManager doesn't do predictions of when you're going to run out > of space. > Servergraph/TSM is better for serious capacity planning. > > Should some impartial third party review the various TSM > monitoring products > and send the list a write-up? > Paul Seay? Dwight Cook? Wanda Prather? Somebody? > > We, of course, have detailed feature-by-feature comparisons, but can't > really claim to be impartial ;-} > --------------------------------- > Mr. Lindsay Morris > CEO, Servergraph > www.servergraph.com > 859-253-8000 ofc > 425-988-8478 fax > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > Cahill, Ricky > > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:01 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization > > > > > > Take a look at www.tsmmanager.com this will do exactly what you > > want and in > > a graphical format, you can download it and use the evaluation > license to > > get the info you need. To be honest after now using this for a couple of > > months I can't see how anyone could do without it. It's > especially good at > > doing nice pretty reports for the management to get them off > your back and > > give them more paper to pass around in meetings ;) > > > > .............Rikk > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 09 September 2002 13:44 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization > > > > > > In the long run, we are attempting to quantify exactly how "busy" our > > ATLs/drives are over time for a number of reasons -- capacity planning, > > adjusting schedules to better utilize resources, and possibly > even justify > > the purchase of new tape drives. > > > > At this point I have been asked to simply come up with a > minutes or hours > > per 24 hour period any particular drive is in use. > > > > A "query mount" every minute might work, but it just isn't a > good solution > > for two reasons -- for clients writing directly to tape, the > mounted tape > > won't show up in "query mount", and most of these servers > already have an > > extensive number of scripts accessing them periodically for various > > monitoring and reporting functions - I hesitate to add any more to them. > > > > My last resort is going to be to extract the activity log once every 24 > > hours and examine the logs and match the mount/dismounts by drive and > > attempt to calculate usage that way if there isn't something > better. With > > the difficulty in matching mounts to dismounts, I'm not > entirely convinced > > it's worth the trouble. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:55 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization > > > > > > If you use the atape device driver, you (supposedly) can turn on logging > > within it. Then every dismount writes a record of how many bytes were > > read/written during that mount. > > Never tried it ... if you can get it working, let me know how, > > please! We'd > > love to be able to do that. > > > > Right now we CAN show you library-as-a-whole data rates, just > by layering > > all the tape-drive-writing tasks (migration, backup stgpool, > > backup DB, etc) > > one atop the other minute by minute. Maybe that's enough - why > > do you need > > drive-by-drive data rates? > > > > --------------------------------- > > Mr. Lindsay Morris > > CEO, Servergraph > > www.servergraph.com > > 859-253-8000 ofc > > 425-988-8478 fax > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of > > > Jolliff, Dale > > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:16 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization > > > > > > > > > Paul said that Servergraph has this functionality - According to our > > > hardware guys, the 3494 library has some rudimentary mount statistics > > > available. > > > > > > I'm going to be looking into both of those options. > > > > > > Surely someone has already invented this wheel when trying to > > justify more > > > tape drives - other than pointing to the smoke coming from the > > drives and > > > suggesting that they are slightly overused.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:45 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization > > > > > > > > > Good question, never actually thought about it... > > > I would think that the sum of the difference between mount & > > > dismount times > > > for each drive... > > > OH THANKS..... now I won't be able to sleep until I code some select > > > statement to do this :-( > > > if I figure it out, I'll pass it along > > > > > > Dwight > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:04 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: 3494 Utilization > > > > > > > > > I saw this topic out on ADSM, and I could not locate any type of > > > functional > > > resolution ... > > > > > > What is everyone using to calculate the "wall time" of your tape drive > > > utilization? > > > > > > > > > ****************************************************************** > > ********************************** > > Equitas Limited, 33 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8LL, UK > > NOTICE: This message is intended only for use by the named addressee > > and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. 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