IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 Advanced Administration, Tuning, and Troubleshooting (AIX) - TMX22

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Who Needs to Attend

This is an intermediate-level course for Senior System Administrators and Business Partners who are experienced with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation.

Prerequisites

You should complete:

Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 Implementation and Administration (Course 1547)

You should also have:

the ability to navigate through Windows applications
experience with the Windows command line
a basic understanding of storage networks
experience with storage devices

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 Implementation and Administration (Windows) - TM502

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

This five-day course is designed to provide in-depth administration training with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.5 Extended Edition at a skill level that is beyond the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 Implementation and Administration course. Through the use of reporting tools, administrators will be able to control their TSM environment and determine which actions to take. These tasks will vary according to the action we are trying to accomplish. The exercises for this training involve multiple servers to simulate an enterprise environment. Participate in group problem determine exercises, perform a variety of backup and restore processes, optimize data management, and tune the backup-archive client and the TSM 5.5 server for optimal performance.

What You'll Learn

Back up and restore IBM Tivoli Storage Manager databases and storage pools
Write and use macros and scripts to automate operations
Optimize IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with performance tuning parameters
Prepare reports with Operational Reporting
Use client and server trace functions
Configure and use server-to-server virtual volumes
Configure and use backup sets, subfile backup and online image backup
Configure and use multi-session backup and move node data
Enable and use file grouping and open file support
Configure single administrative logon

Course Outline

Unit 1: TSM 5.5 Concept Review and New Features

This unit will present the new features available for TSM 5.5 in an overview format. There is also a review of basic TSM concepts and TSM interfaces to make sure there is a base of knowledge for the course to proceed on.

Unit 2: Database and Log Manipulation

This unit explains the concepts dealing with the database and recovery log and how they are sized and expanded.

Unit 3: Storage Pool Manipulation

This unit explains the concepts dealing with the storage pools. The exercises for this unit provide the opportunity to learn how to manage the data storage used by the storage hierarchy.

Unit 4: Database and Storage Pool Problem Determinations

This unit consists of exercises. There is a short presentation and then you will work with three different problem determination labs that help you learn how to recover the TSM server after anomalies have occurred.

Unit 5: Macros and Scripts

In this unit you will see how writing macros and scripts can help with the automation of common tasks. You will also see that scripts can be scheduled thus reducing the number of schedules required.

Unit 6: Network Configuration and TSM Performance Issues

Performance and tuning parameters and options will be covered in this unit. Guidelines will be presented and you will also work with network backup capabilities when there are nodes that exist across the WAN environment from the TSM Server installation.

Unit 7: Reporting

Reporting tools are covered in the unit. The SQL interface along with the ODBC driver and connectivity are reviewed. The Operational Reporting Manager is also presented so you see the capabilities of this included utility.

Unit 8: Problem Determination Concepts

Since there may be times when TSM support will need you to run a trace, this unit covers what traces are and how to run them. Tracing will be examined from the server and client perspective.

Unit 9: Backup and Restore Methodology

This unit covers many backup and restore methods not presented in the prerequisite course. Some of the items examined will be multi-session backup and restore, open file support, image backup (static and online snapshot), backup groups, and moving data by node to name a few.

Unit 10: Enterprise Administration

Unit 10 establishes a good foundation in how to configure multiple instances of TSM servers in support of enterprise administration. Also covered in this unit is the establishment of a configuration manager server for propagation of objects in a controlled methodology from the manager to other TSM servers.

Unit 11: Server-to-server Virtual Volumes

The capability to store backup and archive data for a TSM server on another TSM server is studied in this unit. This capability is available through the use of virtual volumes. The exploitation of these virtual volumes database backups and disaster recovery is explored.