IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center is a storage infrastructure management software product that can centralize, automate, and simplify the management of complex and heterogeneous storage environments.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for administrators or users who are installing and using IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. It describes the hardware and software requirements for installing the products and provides an overview of the installation procedures.

The new features and functions introduced in this version are also covered, as well as working scenarios showing how to take advantage of the product.

Chapter 1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center architecture and functional overview

Chapter 2. Planning for installation of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Chapter 3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation and upgrade on Windows

Chapter 4. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation and upgrade on AIX

Chapter 5. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Linux

Chapter 6. LDAP authentication support and Single Sign-On

Chapter 7. Optimizing storage configurations through Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Chapter 8. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center basic configuration and use

Chapter 9. Monitoring your environment using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Chapter 10. Reporting through TPC

Chapter 11. Customized Reporting through Tivoli Common Reporting

Appendix A. Report and Data Source Import Configuring X11 forwarding

Appendix B. DB2 table space considerations

Appendix C. Worksheets

Appendix D. Additional material