Course Description
The purpose of this 2 day hands on, instructor-led training is to show and explain how the features and functions of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can be used to administer and manage an organizations storage resources and help meet its Storage Resource Management needs. Through lecture and hands-on exercises, the participants will install and configure the Storage Resource Manager server and agent, navigate through IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager’s interface, and monitor, evaluate, and report on the managed storage resources. The skills learned in this course apply to all IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager agent and server platforms.

Objectives

• Install and Configure ITSRM in any supported environment.
• Define quotas to set limits on the amount of storage that a user or group can consume.
• Configure ITSRM to alert you to storage usage violations via email, event logs, or other alerting mechanisms
• Use ITSRM to identify trends in your storage usage.
• Create profiles to find where you have wasted space in your storage environment.
• Find ways to consolidate storage by locating duplicate, orphan, or obsolete files.
• Automate functions within IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager using scripts and schedules.
• Use ITSRM for Chargeback to create centers to allow you to charge individuals or departments for their storage usage.
• Monitor and report on the storage usage and growth trends of your database.

Who will benefit from this course
This course is intended for Storage Administrators and Implementers.

Required Skills Knowledge

• File system, volume, LUN, and disk management
• Basic database administration (DB2, Oracle, Sybase, SQL)
• Storage administration, including SAN

Prerequisites
None.

Course Outline

• IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Overview - This topic describes how IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can help meet the storage management needs of an organization.
• Installing IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager - This topic explains the IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager architecture framework and shows how to install IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager/OS.
• Getting Started - This topic discusses the basic concepts behind IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and describes how to plan the implementation for any environment.
• Monitoring - This topic explains how IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager monitors an organization’s storage resources.
• Default Reporting - This topic describes how the default reports generated by IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can be used to view the information gathered through Monitoring jobs.
• Alerting - This topic explains how IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager triggers alerts based on the storage information gathered through Monitoring jobs, and how to enable Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) to receive events.
• Policy Management - This topic explains how to use Quotas, Constraints, and scheduled actions to enforce storage policies within an organization. IBM ESS provisioning policies are also discussed.
• Using Scripts - This topic describes how to use scripts with the Triggered Action and Scheduled Action Facilities to perform actions against storage resources.
• Custom Reporting - This topic describes how the extensive reports generated by IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can be used to view the information gathered through Monitoring jobs.
• IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Database and Chargeback - This topic describes installation, configuration and administration of the Database monitoring product, and the Chargeback product.