Planning to install the Operations Center

Before you install the Operations Center, you must understand the system requirements, the administrator IDs that the Operations Center requires, and the information that you must provide to the installation program.

About this task

From the Operations Center, you can manage the following primary aspects of the storage environment:

Tivoli® Storage Manager servers and clients
Services such as backup and restore, archive and retrieve, and migrate and recall
Storage pools and storage devices

The Operations Center includes the following features:

User interface for multiple servers

You can use the Operations Center to manage one or more Tivoli Storage Manager servers.

In an environment with multiple Tivoli Storage Manager servers, you can designate one Tivoli Storage Manager server as a hub server and the others as spoke servers. The hub server can receive alerts and status information from the spoke servers and present the information in a consolidated view in the Operations Center.

Alert monitoring

An alert is a notification of a relevant problem on the Tivoli Storage Manager server and is triggered by a Tivoli Storage Manager server message. You can define which server messages trigger alerts, and only those messages are reported as alerts in the Operations Center or in an email.

This alert monitoring can help you identify and track relevant problems on the Tivoli Storage Manager server.

Convenient command-line interface

The Operations Center includes a command-line interface for advanced features and configuration.