- Processing options overview
This section provides an overview of the types of options that you can use. - Communication options
You use communication options to specify how your client node communicates with a Tivoli Storage Manager server. This topic provides information about the types of communication options you can use. 
Server and node options
This topic provides information about the server to contact for backup-archive services, and the client node to request backup-archive services.- Node options
This topic explains the node options that you can use to request backup-archive services. - Backup and archive processing options
This topic describes the options that you can use to control some aspects of backup and archive processing. - Restore and retrieve processing options
This topic describes the options that you can use for restoring and retrieving. - Scheduling options
This topic discusses the options that you can use to regulate central scheduling. Tivoli Storage Manager uses scheduling options only when the Scheduler is running. - Format and language options
Format and language options allow you to select different formats for date, time, numbers, and for different languages if you have the appropriate client language pack installed for that language. - Command processing options
This topic explains the options that you can use with the Tivoli Storage Manager commands. - Authorization options
Authorization options control access to a Tivoli Storage Manager server. - Error processing options
Error processing options specify the name of the error log file and how Tivoli Storage Manager treats the entries in the log file. - Transaction processing options
Transaction processing options control how Tivoli Storage Manager processes transactions between the client and server. - Web client options
This topic describes the options for the Tivoli Storage Manager Web Client. - Using options with commands
You can override some of the options in your client options file (dsm.opt) file by entering them with appropriate Tivoli Storage Manager commands. - Client options reference
The following sections contain detailed information about each of the Tivoli Storage Manager processing options.
Parent topic: Backup-archive client options and commands
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