Course Overview
This five-day course is designed to provide in-depth administration training with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 Extended Edition, at a skill level that is beyond the Implementation and Administrator Part One 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 classroom setup for this training includes installing and configuring multiple servers, server-to-server and virtual volumes.
The students will participate in group problem determine exercises, and be presented with options for a tapeless backup, optimal data management, and tuning the backup-archive client and the TSM 5.5 server for optimal performance.
This course has been classified as IT Technical Training.
Audience
This course is intended for Senior System Administrators and Business Partners who are experienced with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation.
Skills Gained
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Backup 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.
Prerequisites
The following list contains the prerequisite knowledge and Tivoli product knowledge an attendee must have prior to taking the course:
Tivoli product knowledge:
- Students must have either taken a recent (current or one level back) version of the Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation course, or have hands-on experience administering IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
General skills:
- Ability to navigate through applications on the OS being used for the course (Windows)
- Ability to use the OS command line on the OS being used for the course (Windows)
- Experience working with storage devices
- Ability to work with an Internet browser
- Thorough understanding of client-server concepts
- Basic understanding of network architecture including WAN, LAN and SAN
Recommended courses
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 Implementation and Administration (Classroom)
Course Outline
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.
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.
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.
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.
