Operations Center updates

The following enhancements were made to the Operations Center for Version 7.1.1:

Navigation, customization, and reporting

You can now complete the following tasks:

• Use improved linking to navigate between pages of the Operations Center more easily
• Use advanced filters to construct custom views of table data
• Bookmark and use shared links to commonly accessed web pages
• Customize the Operations Center login page to include text that you provide
• Configure daily email reports on client coverage and server status
• If you have a Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery license, compare the amount of data you are managing with what your entitlement allows

Alerts

You can now complete the following tasks from the Alerts page:

• Add an alert by specifying the message that triggers the alert
• Select which administrators receive email notifications for an alert
• Change the category for an alert
• Delete an alert definition for a message, so the message no longer triggers an alert

Clients

You can now complete the following tasks from the Clients page:

• View client schedules
• Add client schedules
• Modify client schedules

Client details now include diagnosis information. Use the Diagnosis page to view client errors and recommendations for how to resolve them. You can also view client log messages to help you diagnose problems without accessing the client system.

Services

You can now view the following policy domain details on the Services page:

• Properties of the policy domain, such as the default management class and the retention grace period
• The files and related objects that were examined and expired over the previous two weeks
• The active policy set for the policy domain

Servers

You can now view maintenance schedules from the Servers page.

Storage Pools

You can now complete the following tasks from the Storage Pools page:

• Manually migrate storage pool data
• Manually reclaim storage pool space
• View the following storage pool details:
  • Properties of the storage pool, such as the device class and utilization
  • The storage pool capacity that was used over the previous two weeks
  • Volumes that are assigned to the storage pool
• Edit certain storage pool properties

For more information about these enhancements, see the Operations Center help. To open the help, hover over the help icon in the Operations Center menu bar.