If you want to to provide a continuous, visual status of your data replication sessions within Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, it might be helpful to customize the main screen auto refresh rate.

 

After you have successfully installed Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, you can access Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication to start managing data replication. By installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, shortcuts to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication are created in Start menu on the server running the Windows operating system. If you are running an AIX or Linux operating system, start a supported web browser and enter the address of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication server.

To start the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication GUI on a Windows server go to Start > All Programs > IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and click TPC Replication Manager GUI. Type your user name and password to enter Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. From the Navigation tree, on the left-hand side of the main menu, click Advanced Tools.  Beneath the Set browser auto-refresh rate section, you can define the refresh rate for all non-wizard panels. You can enter a number in the 5 - 3600 range. After you set the range, click Apply. Note, the default auto-refresh time is 30 seconds.