Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Guide


Monitoring Tivoli Storage Manager Accounting Records


Task Required Privilege Class
Set accounting records on or off System

TSM accounting records show the server resources that are used during a session. This information lets you track resources that are used by a client node session. At installation, accounting defaults to OFF. You can set accounting to ON by entering:

set accounting on

When accounting is on, the server creates a session resource usage accounting record whenever a client node session ends.

Accounting records are stored in a file named dsmaccnt.log, which is located in the server directory. The accounting file contains text records that can be viewed directly or can be read into a spreadsheet program. The file remains opened while the server is running and accounting is set to ON. The file continues to grow until you delete it or prune old records from it. To close the file for pruning, either temporarily set accounting off or stop the server.

There are 31 fields, which are delimited by commas (,). Each record ends with a new-line character. Each record contains the following information:

Field Contents
1 Product version
2 Product sublevel
3 Product name, 'ADSM',
4 Date of accounting (mm/dd/yyyy)
5 Time of accounting (hh:mm:ss)
6 Node name of TSM client
7 Client owner name (UNIX)
8 Client Platform
9 Authentication method used
10 Communication method used for the session
11 Normal server termination indicator (Normal=X'01', Abnormal=X'00')
12 Number of archive store transactions requested during the session
13 Amount of archived files, in kilobytes, sent by the client to the server
14 Number of archive retrieve transactions requested during the session
15 Amount of space, in kilobytes, retrieved by archived objects
16 Number of backup store transactions requested during the session
17 Amount of backup files, in kilobytes, sent by the client to the server
18 Number of backup retrieve transactions requested during the session
19 Amount of space, in kilobytes, retrieved by backed up objects
20 Amount of data, in kilobytes, communicated between the client node and the server during the session
21 Duration of the session, in seconds
22 Amount of idle wait time during the session, in seconds
23 Amount of communications wait time during the session, in seconds
24 Amount of media wait time during the session, in seconds
25 Client session type. A value of 1 or 4 indicates a general client session. A value of 5 indicates a client session that is running a schedule.
26 Number of space-managed store transactions requested during the session
27 Amount of space-managed data, in kilobytes, sent by the client to the server
28 Number of space-managed retrieve transactions requested during the session
29 Amount of space, in kilobytes, retrieved by space-managed objects
30 Product release
31 Product level

The following shows a sample record:

3,8,ADSM,08/03/2000,16:26:37,node1,,AIX,1,Tcp/Ip,0,254,1713,0,0,47,1476,0,0,3316,960,27,5,1,4,0,0,0,0,7,2


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