Administrator's Reference


Changes for Version 3--October 1997

The new functions for TSM Version 3 are:

Central logging and monitoring
You can specify that event messages logged by the client and server be directed to specified receivers.

See the following new commands for details:

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

The QUERY ACTLOG command provides more detailed information about event messages logged by the client and server.

SQL queries of the TSM database
You can use SQL queries to get information about the server and clients.

See the following new commands for details:

QUERY SQLSESSION
SELECT
SET SQLDATETIMEFORMAT
SET SQLDISPLAYMODE
SET SQLMATHMODE

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 and write-once (WORM) optical 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

You can now label and check tape volumes into an automated library. See the LABEL LIBVOLUME command for details.

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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