Administrator's Reference


Changes for Version 3 Release 7--September 1998

The following changes have been made for this edition:

Enterprise Administration
You can manage a network of servers in a consistent way from a single, web browser-based administrative interface. You can set up one server as the configuration manager that distributes configuration information (such as policy) to managed servers.

See the following new commands for details:

COPY PROFILE
DEFINE PROFILE
QUERY PROFILE
UNLOCK PROFILE
UPDATE PROFILE
DEFINE PROFASSOCIATION
DELETE PROFASSOCIATION
DEFINE SUBSCRIPTION
DELETE SUBSCRIPTION
QUERY SUBSCRIPTION
DELETE SUBSCRIBER
QUERY SUBSCRIBER
NOTIFY SUBSCRIBERS
RENAME STGPOOL
SET CONFIGMANAGER
SET CONFIGREFRESH

In the network of servers, you can route commands to one or more servers. See the following new commands for details:

COPY SERVERGROUP
DEFINE SERVERGROUP
DELETE SERVERGROUP
QUERY SERVERGROUP
RENAME SERVERGROUP
UPDATE SERVERGROUP
DEFINE GRPMEMBER
DELETE GRPMEMBER
MOVE GRPMEMBER
PING SERVER

Enterprise Event Logging and Monitoring
You can log events from other servers and clients to a specific TSM server.

See the following new commands for details:

DEFINE EVENTSERVER
DELETE EVENTSERVER
QUERY EVENTSERVER

See the following changed commands for details:

BEGIN EVENTLOGGING
DISABLE EVENTS
ENABLE EVENTS
END EVENTLOGGING
QUERY ENABLED
QUERY EVENTRULES

Server-to-Server Communication Enhancements
In order to manage a network of servers, server-to-server communications have been enhanced to allow for the functions described above.

See the following new commands for details:

SET CROSSDEFINE
SET SERVERHLADDRESS
SET SERVERLLADDRESS
SET SERVERPASSWORD
SET SERVERURL

See the following changed commands for details:

DEFINE SERVER
DELETE SERVER
QUERY SERVER
UPDATE SERVER

TSM Server Scripts
You can create and store server scripts in the TSM database. Scripts can contain TSMadministrative commands and can include conditional statements that evaluate the results of earlier commands in the script before proceeding. Scripts can be distributed to other servers and can be scheduled to run with the DEFINE SCHEDULE command.

See the following new commands for details:

COPY SCRIPT
DEFINE SCRIPT
DELETE SCRIPT
QUERY SCRIPT
RENAME SCRIPT
RUN
UPDATE SCRIPT

Database and Recovery Log Automation
You can set up triggers that automate increasing the size of the database or recovery log based on utilization levels.

See the following new commands for details:

DEFINE SPACETRIGGER
DELETE SPACETRIGGER
QUERY SPACETRIGGER
UPDATE SPACETRIGGER

Storage Pool Migration by Age
You can set a minimum age for data before the server can migrate the data from a storage pool.

See the following changed commands for details:

DEFINE STGPOOL
UPDATE STGPOOL

Restartable Client Restore Sessions
Clients can restart restore client sessions that have been interrupted. Administrators can request information about these sessions and cancel them.

See the following new commands for details:

CANCEL RESTORE
QUERY RESTORE

Data stored on another TSM server
You can store data for one TSM server (a source server) on another TSM server (a target server). Using another TSM server is especially useful for storing backups of the TSM database and TSM storage pools.

See the following new commands for details:

DEFINE SERVER
DELETE SERVER
QUERY SERVER
UPDATE SERVER

See the following changed commands for details:

DEFINE DEVCLASS
UPDATE DEVCLASS

Device support enhancements
Device class types now include support for the IBM 3590 tape drives. Also included is a device type of SERVER, which supports server-to-server virtual volumes.

See the following changed commands for details:

DEFINE DEVCLASS
UPDATE DEVCLASS

Administrative client web interface
You can access TSM server functions from any workstation with a web browser that supports HTML 2.0 or higher. The workstation does not need to have an administrative client installed. See the SET WEBAUTHTIMEOUT command for details about setting the time interval for reauthorization to the web session.

Immediate processing of commands on a client
You can use a TSM administrative command to run an operation immediately on a client workstation. You can also set the number of days that the operation is to remain active.

See the following new commands for details:

DEFINE CLIENTACTION
SET CLIENTACTDURATION

Client options at the server
You can define, update, or delete client options at the server from the server console or from an administrative client.

See the following new commands for details:

COPY CLOPSET
DEFINE CLIENTOPT
DEFINE CLOPTSET
DELETE CLIENTOPT
DELETE CLOPTSET
QUERY CLOPTSET
UPDATE CLIENTOPT
UPDATE CLOPTSET

You can specify which clients should use the option sets. See the following commands for details:

REGISTER NODE
UPDATE NODE

Server options enhancement
You can change some server options and have the changes take effect without stopping and starting the server. See the SETOPT command for details.

System configuration and capacity information
You can obtain information regarding TSM's configuration and capacity from a command that consolidates output from a multiple of query commands. See the QUERY SYSTEM command for details.


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