IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager: A Practical Introduction

Now that you have installed your SAN, how are you going to manage it? This IBM Redbook describes the new product, IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager, an active, intelligent, business-centric management solution for storage resources across the enterprise.

IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager provides effective discovery and presentation of SAN physical and logical topologies and provides multiple views of the SAN, including zones. Through its interface, it can be configured to show historical and real-time monitoring of SAN fabric devices.

With IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager, you will know what's on your SAN, how the devices are connected, and how storage is assigned to the hosts. If something goes wrong, or new devices are added, the topology display automatically updates to show the changed topology. SAN generated events can be displayed on the manager system, or forwarded to another SNMP manager or Tivoli Enterprise Console.

This book is written for those who want to learn more about IBM Tivoli SAN Manager, as well as those who are about to implement it.

This second edition of the book is current to IBM Tivoli SAN Manager V1.2.

Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to Storage Area Network management
Chapter 2. Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager
Part 2. Design considerations
Chapter 3. Deployment architecture
Part 3. Installation and basic operations
Chapter 4. Installation and setup
Chapter 5. Topology management
Part 4. Advanced operations
Chapter 6. NetView Data Collection, reporting, and SmartSets
Chapter 7. Tivoli SAN Manager and iSCSI
Chapter 8. SNMP Event notification
Chapter 9. ED/FI - SAN Error Predictor
Part 5. Maintenance
Chapter 10. Protecting the IBM Tivoli SAN Manager environment
Chapter 11. Logging and tracing
Part 6. Tivoli Systems Management Integration
Chapter 12. Tivoli SAN Manager and TEC
Chapter 13. IBM Tivoli SAN Manager and Configuration Manager
Chapter 14. Integration with Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse
Chapter 15. Tivoli SAN Manager and Tivoli Monitoring
Appendix A. Advanced Topology and Sensor Event Scanners
Appendix B. IBM Tivoli SAN Manager backup scripts
Appendix C. Additional material

• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• TotalStorage Productivity Center for VMWare Environments, REDP-4471-00
• Understanding LDAP - Design and Implementation, SG24-4986-01

Publish Date
05 September 2003

Last Update
11 September 2003

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Author(s)

Charlotte Brooks is an IBM Certified IT Specialist and Project Leader for Tivoli Storage Management and Open Tape Solutions at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. She has 12 years of experience with IBM in the fields of IBM ~ pSeries servers, AIX and storage. She has written nine Redbooks, and has developed and taught IBM classes in all areas of storage management. Before joining the ITSO in 2000, she was the Technical Support Manager for Tivoli Storage Manager in the Asia Pacific Region.

• Charlotte Brooks

Michel Baus is an IT Architect for @sys GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has eight years of experience in the areas of UNIX, Linux, Windows and Tivoli Storage and System Management. He holds several certifications within technical and sales fields and is an IBM Tivoli Certified Instructor. He has developed and taught several storage classes for IBM Learning Services, Germany. He was a member of the team that wrote the redbook Managing Storage Management.

• Michel Baus

Michael Benanti is an IBM Certified IT Specialist in Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group. In his six years with IBM, he has focused on architecture, deployment, and project management in large SAN implementations. Mike also works with the Tivoli World Wide Services Planning Organization, developing services offerings for IBM Tivoli SAN Manager and IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager. He has worked in the IT field for more than 11 years, and his areas of expertise include network and systems management disciplines using Tivoli NetView and data communications hardware research and development. He was an author of the first edition of this redbook.

• Michael Benanti

Ivo Gomilsek is an IT Specialist for IBM Global Services, Slovenia, supporting the Central and Eastern European Region in architecting, deploying and supporting SAN/storage/DR solutions. His areas of expertise include SAN, storage, HA systems, IBM ~ xSeries servers, network operating systems (Linux, MS Windows, OS/2), and Lotus Domino servers. He holds several certifications from various vendors (IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft). Ivo was a member of the team that wrote the redbook Designing and Optimizing an IBM Storage Area Network, and contributed to various other Redbooks about SAN, Linux/390, xSeries, and Linux. Ivo has been with IBM for five years and was an author of the first edition of this redbook.

• Ivo Gomilsek

Urs Moser is an Advisory IT Specialist with IBM Global Services in Switzerland. He has more than 25 years of IT experience, including more than 13 years experience with Tivoli Storage Manager and other Storage Management products. His areas of expertise include Tivoli Storage Manager implementation projects and education at customer sites, including mainframe environments (OS/390, VSE, and VM) and databases. Urs was a member of the team that wrote the redbook Using Tivoli Storage Manager to Back Up Lotus Notes.

• Urs Moser

Contributing Companies

@sys GmbH

ISBN
0738499978

IBM Form Number
SG24-6848-01

Number of pages
454