Application Launch and TotalStorage Productivity Center

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring provides an Application Launch feature. OMEGAMON® for Storage uses this feature in selected workspaces to provide launching of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is a software tool that helps you manage complex, heterogeneous open storage environments to increase storage capacity utilization, and to improve administrative efficiency. Typically this software is integrated with a disk subsystem, such as a DS8000 storage server.

OMEGAMON for Storage launch feature

This feature provides convenient access to the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center. The feature enables the following example scenario:

Phase	Stage
Phase One: Become aware of a problem and decide how to respond	You suspect that a DS8000 storage facility has slow response time. You decide to investigate hardware issues in IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.
Phase Two: Identify targets and take appropriate corrective action Note: If you did not have the launch feature, you must complete the following manual process: log on to the mainframe computer, find the affected resource, and find the HTML page for IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center and launch it.	You right-click the workspace to access the context menu. You select Launch and immediately access the sign-on screen for the instance of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for the storage resource that you want to investigate. You discover a need to allocate space to the extent pool that generated the alert. You allocate some unallocated storage space to the extent pool.