To easily complete tasks with multiple servers, Tivoli® Storage
Manager provides
you with the Operations Center,
command routing, and server group definitions that you can use to
simplify command routing.
Routing commands
Command routing enables an administrator to send commands
for processing to one or more servers at the same time. The output
is collected and displayed at the server that issued the routed commands.
Setting up server groups
You can make command routing more efficient by creating
one or more server groups and adding servers to them. You can then
route commands to server groups in addition to, or in place of, routing
commands to single servers.
Querying server availability
You can test a connection from your local server to a specified
server by issuing the PING SERVER command.