reporter for ibm tsm by plcs
DESCRIPTION
Reporter is an easy to use powerfull reporting product for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). It works right out of the box, easy installation and ready to use reports. No SQL query coding needed, more than 500 reports ready to use! Get in touch with us for a live demo or a 30 day trial. www.plcs.euTRANSCRIPT
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PLCS Reporter v2.8for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Business intelligence for TSM
Up to date accurate enterprise reporting, alerting and trending for TSM servers
Overview: PLCS Reporter
Automated and simple reporting and monitoring for TSM (500+ ready to use reports /
8000 reported items)
Ready to use reports, (no SQL coding needed ) – predefined easy to use powerful reports
Historic trending for capacity planning
Problem prediction and analysis
Up to date alerting of critical events
Verification of compliance with service level agreements
PLCS Reporter provides data gathering, trending and analysis capabilities
Benefits: PLCS Reporter
Data Collection Database - Live data gathering - Non-interference with production server - Works in 10 minutes, easy quick and simple
Historical Charts & Graphs - Capacity planning - Auditing and confirmation of SLA compliance - Troubleshooting - Long term data collection - “Zoom able” graphs and choice of graph visual - Automated logging and documentation of all your changes made on your TSM Servers, great for audits!
Hardware Utilization Statistics - Load Balancing - Investment Protection - Infrastructure Planning
PLCS Reporter helps manage your critical backup servers and clients
Features: PLCS Reporter
DriverMajor Feature Business DriverMajor Feature
Powerful Reporting One screen overview reports of historical data
Data Collection Database Live data gathering doesn’t interfere with production server
Trend & Capacity Analysis Predict future storage requirements
Hardware Utilization StatsFor load balancing, investment protection and
infrastructure planning
Health Check Error detection and troubleshooting of performance bottlenecks
Audit Reporting &Chargeback
Confirmation of compliance with SLAs
How It Works
PLCS Reporter provides valuable feedback on the performance and usage of your TSM
Server
Live data collection captures data from your TSM servers (agentfree, nothing to install)
Historical TSM data is warehoused in a dedicated database
Data warehouse is mined to generate reports and valuable system alerts
Production TSM servers are not impacted because Reporter uses its own database
Provides a complete backup status view to confirm SLA and regulatory compliance
Report Examples: PLCS Reporter
Clients - Completion status, performance, days since last access, clients not scheduled, clients with data on
many volumes, total data backed up by clients, software versions and licenses in use
Occupancy - Total amount of data in storage pools per client, total amount of files per client and utilization trends
Drives and Library - Utilization, specifications, errors and history
Database and Recovery Log - Summary, configuration, performance and history
PLCS Reporter provides summary reports of active and historical data including:
Client Schedule Summary
Report Examples: PLCS Reporter
Storage Pools - Capacity, utilization percentages, history and trends
Volumes - Volume count, filling volumes and errors
Administration - Failed processes, files missed, skipped or failed in backup, error counts, history including media waits, processing time and data processed
Security Report - Locked accounts, invalid passwords, updates to client attributes, locked clients, client registrations and password changes
Disaster Recovery Manager - Summary, configuration, volumes and on and off site
Interactive Timeline View
Requirements: PLCS Reporter
Hardware - 32-bit or 64 Intel CPU (or compatible like AMD) - 2 GB+ RAM - 80 GB disk space (more for long term logging)
Software - Microsoft Windows 7 (or vista) - Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 or higher - Microsoft Windows 2008 - Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 - Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008R2 (free) or external SQL Server 2005 or 2008
Also available as ready-plugin virtual machine.
Reporter can also run inside a virtual machine!
Try reporter yourself! www.plcs.eu
PLCS Reporter installs easily into your data center environment
Summary: Automated health check on TSMMake sure your server is running smoothly
Highlights & benefits:• Health check within minutes• Capacity planning• Trends & prediction• Graphical activity overview• Automatic TSM analysis• One screen activity overview• Long term data audit• No load on TSM server• Information & reporting• Volume mount and usage history• Asset management information
Unique features:• CPU license information• Easy Windows install• Drop & drag updates• Quick problem determination• Charge Back billing• Timeline overview• 500+ Reports included
Saves you time and money!
PLCS Reporter provides an easy-to-use, intuitive graphical interface
PLCS Reporter provides live data gathering and automated analysis of your mission critical backup environment
Powerful reporting capabilities
Predict future storage requirements
Perform error detection and resolution of performance bottlenecks
Confirm SLA and regulatory compliance
PLCS Reporter is complete agent free
Summary: PLCS Reporter
NDMP reports, Capacity deduplication savings, CPU detection, TB capacity reports and more..
Fully TSM 6.x aware and updated
Reports on TSM Virtual environments
Predict future storage requirements
Reports on capacity (TB) vs PVU licenses
File and filespace live checking with TSM for existence of a backup file inside TSM
PLCS Reporter is complete agent free
Reporter is fully VMware supported!
Update 08-2012: PLCS Reporter
What Our Software Customers Say
“Best plug-in software I’ve ever used. Painless.” Fortune 500 Company
“Our greatest cost savings by far have been in terms of labor required. It’s as straightforward to use as technology comes these days.” Snohomish County PUD
“The amount of information we get is amazing! It tells us all what we need to know” Dexia Bank
“Reporter helped us saving lots of time during our TSM 5 to 6 upgrade”VRT Belgium
Bottom Line
Business intelligence for TSM
Product suite of solutions
Manage TSM ? Yes you can …, with our products!
Saves you time and money!Business intelligence for TSM
PLCS – Who we are
Founded in 1999 with HQ in Netherlands „Business Inteligence for TSM“
Suite of products fully focused and certified for TSM over 30 years combined TSM experience selected members of the IBM Beta & ADVISORY programme,
allowing PLCS to be involved and anticipate future developments of TSM which are directly fed back into the development process of our product roadmap
Proven solution. We are currently working with the 3rd generation of our software.
Ready for Tivoli Certified product Large customer installed base Reseller network worldwide OEM Partnership in USA
Some of our customers & partners include;
Extra screenshots of PVU and other functions.
WMI data & machine scan of Windows software
Node restore prediction based on backup results
Support of VMWare systems
Reporter connects to VMWare virtual center or any ESX hostWorks with the VMWare VI toolkit API to detect disk and cpu , network information and all those related information.Virtual machine matching with TSM backup nodes (or mention vm’s which are NOT being backupped)
*Agentfree
*No code to be installed
Deduplication reports & savings
Reports of savings with deduplication.