IBM Spectrum Protect KM for PATROL

IBM Spectrum Protect (earlier known as Tivoli Storage Manager KM for PATROL) monitors the Tivoli Storage Manager application within BMC TrueSight Operations Management to ensure it runs efficiently 24 hours a day. It notably:

• detects backup and restore errors
• ensures maximum data protection and maximum availability
• measures jobs progress
• helps diagnosing server problems
• analyzes trend
• detects disk or tapes space shortages
• ensures backups are successful
• helps identify bottlenecks and optimize backup domains.

Main features

IBM Spectrum Protect KM for PATROL monitors the: 

• Jobs: size, duration, throughput, time elapsed since last backup, number of objects and status
• Server and Storage Agent availability: status memory and CPU time consumption
• Internal server processes: monitoring of database backups, data migration and space reclamation
• Server database and recovery logs: database and file system utilization, cache and buffer performance, time elapsed since last backup and database reorganization, etc.
• Storage pools: space utilization, status, capacity, logical occupancy, growth rates, etc.
• Libraries and drives: number of available drives, status, and number of scratch volumes loaded, etc.
• Client: working status

Supported platforms

• IBM Spectrum Protect (earlier known as Tivoli  Storage Manager) 5.1 and higher
  
• IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client (earlier known as Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client) 5.1 and higher

Additional resources

• Download the latest version
• Read the User Documentation for detailed information about the product
• Visit Sentry Software Web site for detailed information regarding our Storage Monitoring Solutions