Managing a network of Tivoli Storage Manager servers

Concepts:
Enterprise configuration

Tasks:
Setting up communications for enterprise configuration and enterprise event logging
Setting up communications for command routing with multiple source servers

Concepts for managing server networks
In a network of Tivoli Storage Manager servers, a server can play several different roles. For example, a server can send volumes to be archived on another server and also receive routed commands from a different server.

Enterprise-administration planning
To take full advantage of the functions of enterprise administration, you should decide on the servers you want to include in the enterprise network, the server from which you want to manage the network, and other important issues.

Setting up communications among servers
You can set up communications for enterprise configuration, enterprise event logging, and command routing. When you set up communications among servers for any purpose, ensure that servers have unique names.

Setting up enterprise configurations
With profiles, you can designate the configuration information that is distributed to managed servers. Then you can set up other servers as managed servers. The managed servers receive configuration information through subscriptions to profiles on the configuration manager.

Refreshing configuration information
On a configuration manager, an administrator can make changes to configuration information that is associated with a profile. How quickly the changes get distributed to a subscribing managed server depends on the configuration refresh period set on the managed server and whether the administrator on the configuration manager sent a notification.

Returning managed objects to local control
You might want to return one or more managed objects (objects distributed by a configuration manager via profiles) to local control on the managed servers. You can accomplish this from the configuration manager or from the managed servers.

Setting up administrators for the servers
Include any administrators, in your profiles, to whom you want to give access to all servers in the network. These administrators must then maintain their passwords on the configuration manager.

Managing problems with synchronization of profiles
In rare situations when a managed server contacts a configuration manager to refresh configuration information, the configuration manager might determine that the profile information on the two servers is not synchronized

Switching a managed server to a different configuration manager
You might want to switch a managed server from one configuration manager to another to organize your policy needs.

Deleting subscribers from a configuration manager
Under normal circumstances, you do not have to delete subscribers from a configuration manager. You only have to delete a subscription to a profile on the managed server (by using the DELETE SUBSCRIPTION command).

Renaming a managed server
You might want to rename a managed server to align your policy configuration.

Completing tasks on multiple servers
To easily complete tasks with multiple servers, Tivoli Storage Manager provides you with the Operations Center, command routing, and server group definitions that you can use to simplify command routing.

Using virtual volumes to store data on another server
You can store the results of database backups and other items on another server as a virtual volume.

Managing a network of Tivoli Storage Manager servers

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