User interfaces for the IBM Storage Protect environment
For monitoring and configuration tasks, IBM Storage Protect provides various interfaces, including the Operations Center, a command-line interface, and an SQL administrative interface.
Interfaces for data storage management
The Operations Center is the primary interface for administrators to monitor and administer servers. A key benefit of the Operations Center is that you can monitor multiple servers, as shown in Figure 1. You can also monitor and administer IBM Storage Protect from a command-line administrative interface.
You use the following interfaces to interact with IBM
Storage Protect:
- Operations Center
- The Operations Center provides web and mobile access to status information about the IBM
Storage Protect environment. You can use the Operations Center to
complete monitoring and certain administration tasks, for example:
- You can monitor multiple servers and clients.
- You can monitor the transaction activity for specific components in the data path, such as the server database, the recovery log, storage devices, and storage pools.
- Command-line interface
- You can use a command-line interface to run administration tasks for servers. You can access the command-line interface through either the IBM Storage Protect administrative client or the Operations Center.
- Access to information in the server database by using SQL statements
- You can use SQL SELECT statements to query the server database and display the results. Third-party SQL tools are available to aid administrators in database management.
Interfaces for client activity management
IBM
Storage Protect provides the following types of
interfaces for managing client activity:
- An application programming interface (API)
- Graphical user interfaces for clients
- Browser interface for the backup-archive client
- Command-line interfaces for clients