PLCS Reporter v2.8 for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Business intelligence for TSM

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1 PLCS Reporter v2.8 for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Up to date accurate enterprise reporting, alerting and trending for TSM servers Business intelligence for TSM PLCS

2 Overview: PLCS Reporter Automated and simple reporting and monitoring for TSM (500+ ready to use reports / 8000 reported items) Historic trending for capacity planning Problem prediction and analysis Up to date alerting of critical events Verification of compliance with service level agreements CPU Asset management PLCS Reporter provides data gathering, trending and analysis capabilities

3 Benefits: PLCS Reporter Data Collection Database - Live data gathering - Non-interference with production server Historical Charts & Graphs - Capacity planning - Auditing and confirmation of SLA compliance - Troubleshooting - Long term data collection - Zoom able graphs and choice of graph visual - Automated logging and documentation of all your changes made on your TSM Servers, great for audits! Hardware Utilization Statistics - Load Balancing - Investment Protection - Infrastructure Planning PLCS Reporter helps manage your critical backup servers and clients

4 Features: PLCS Reporter Major Feature Powerful Reporting Data Collection Database Trend & Capacity Analysis Business Driver Driver One screen overview reports of historical data Live data gathering doesn t interfere with production server Predict future storage requirements Hardware Utilization Stats Health Check Audit Reporting & Chargeback For load balancing, investment protection and infrastructure planning Error detection and troubleshooting of performance bottlenecks Confirmation of compliance with SLAs

5 How It Works Live data collection captures data from your TSM servers (agentfree, nothing to install) Historical TSM data is warehoused in a dedicated database Data warehouse is mined to generate reports and valuable system alerts Production TSM servers are not impacted because Reporter uses its own database Provides a complete backup status view to confirm SLA and regulatory compliance PLCS Reporter provides valuable feedback on the performance and usage of your TSM Server

6 Report Examples: PLCS Reporter PLCS Reporter provides summary reports of active and historical data including: Clients - Completion status, performance, days since last access, clients not scheduled, clients with data on many volumes, total data backed up by clients, software versions and licenses in use Occupancy - Total amount of data in storage pools per client, total amount of files per client and utilization trends Drives and Library - Utilization, specifications, errors and history Database and Recovery Log - Summary, configuration, performance and history

7 Client Schedule Summary

8 Report Examples: PLCS Reporter Storage Pools - Capacity, utilization percentages, history and trends Volumes - Volume count, filling volumes and errors Administration - Failed processes, files missed, skipped or failed in backup, error counts, history including media waits, processing time and data processed Security Report - Locked accounts, invalid passwords, updates to client attributes, locked clients, client registrations and password changes Disaster Recovery Manager - Summary, configuration, volumes and on and off site

9 Interactive Timeline View

10 Requirements: PLCS Reporter Hardware - 32-bit or 64 Intel CPU (or compatible like AMD) - 2 GB+ RAM - 80 GB disk space (more for long term logging) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 (or vista) - Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 or higher - Microsoft Windows Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 - Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008R2 (free) or external SQL Server 2005 or 2008 Also available as ready-plugin virtual machine. Reporter can also run inside a virtual machine! Try reporter yourself! PLCS Reporter installs easily into your data center environment

11 Summary: Automated health check on TSM Make sure your server is running smoothly Highlights & benefits: Health check within minutes Capacity planning Trends & prediction Graphical activity overview Automatic TSM analysis One screen activity overview Long term data audit No load on TSM server Information & reporting Volume mount and usage history Asset management information Unique features: CPU license information Easy Windows install Drop & drag updates Quick problem determination Charge Back billing Timeline overview 500+ Reports included Saves you time and money!

12 Summary: PLCS Reporter PLCS Reporter provides live data gathering and automated analysis of your mission critical backup environment Powerful reporting capabilities Predict future storage requirements Perform error detection and resolution of performance bottlenecks Confirm SLA and regulatory compliance PLCS Reporter is complete agent free PLCS Reporter provides an easy-to-use, intuitive graphical interface

13 What Our Software Customers Say Best plug-in software I ve ever used. Painless. Fortune 500 Company Our greatest cost savings by far have been in terms of labor required. It s as straightforward to use as technology comes these days. Snohomish County PUD The amount of information we get is amazing! It tells us all what we need to know Dexia Bank Reporter helped us saving lots of time during our TSM 5 to 6 upgrade VRT Belgium

14 Bottom Line Business intelligence for TSM

15 Product suite of solutions Manage TSM? Yes you can, with our products! Business intelligence for TSM Saves you time and money!

16 PLCS Who we are Ø Founded in 1999 with HQ in Netherlands Ø Business Inteligence for TSM Ø Suite of products fully focused and certified for TSM Ø over 30 years combined TSM experience Ø selected members of the IBM Beta & ADVISORY programme, allowing PLCS to be involved and anticipate future developments of TSM which are directly fed back into the development process of our product roadmap Ø Proven solution. We are currently working with the 3rd generation of our software. Ø Ready for Tivoli Certified product Ø Large customer installed base Ø Reseller network worldwide Ø OEM Partnership in USA

17 Some of our customers & partners include;

18 PLCS [email protected] W T +31(0) Business intelligence for TSM

19 Extra screenshots of PVU and other functions.

20 WMI data & machine scan of Windows software

21 Node restore prediction based on backup results

22 Reporter connects to VMWare virtual center or any ESX host Works with the VMWare VI toolkit API to detect disk and cpu, network information and all those related information. Virtual machine matching with TSM backup nodes (or mention vm s which are NOT being backupped) Support of VMWare systems * Agentfree * No code to be installed

23 Deduplication reports & savings Reports of savings with deduplication.