Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations, Version 6.1.2

Viewing the health, storage, and deployment data of one or more clients

The Clients table displays information about the clients. Select clients and take action.

Before you begin

This task assumes that the central administration console discovered some clients.

Procedure

  1. Open the Clients task. The Clients panel displays three tabs: Health, Storage, and Deployment.
  2. Click the tab that contains information that you want to view. Each tab has a table that shows different information about the clients. There is also information that is shared among the three tabs.
  3. Optional: Filter the client entries that are displayed.
    1. In the text filter field, type a text string.
    2. Click the arrow to the left of the filter text field.
    3. From the list of names in the Filter On box, select one or more column names.
    4. Click OK. The table displays only the clients that match the text string that you entered. If you selected more than one column name, the filter yields only clients that have matching text in all selected columns. The filter is case-sensitive.

      For example, if you typed none and selected the Group column name, only the clients associated with no group (Group = none) are displayed.

      More strings are matched when you use wildcards in the filter text. An asterisk replaces several characters. A question mark replaces one character. If you use an asterisk or wildcard in the filter text, the blank space beyond the end of your filter text matches any text.

      Table 1. Filter strings and matching text
      Filter text string Matching text
      Jupiter Jupiter
      Jupiter?

      Jupiter
      Jupiter_bright_moon_light
      Jupiter_moon

      Jupiter?moon

      Jupiter_moon

      *moon

      Jupiter_bright_moon_light
      Jupiter_moon
      moon
      Saturn_moon
      Saturn_moon_light

  4. Optional: Order the entries by sorting on the values in any column.
    1. Click a column heading. The entries are ordered in ascending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.
    2. Click the same column heading again. The entries are ordered in descending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.
    3. Click another column heading. The entries are ordered in ascending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.

What to do next

With the data provided, you can decide what action is needed to maintain the health of a client.

For example, if the Storage view indicates that all clients in the accounting group are using more than 90% of their allocated storage space, you can do several things.

Define alert conditions for high space usage.
If you did not yet define alert conditions for high space usage, you can define those conditions. This time you discovered the current high space-usage situation by browsing the storage data, but next time you want to alert the right people sooner. You can define conditions to alert operators when space usage reaches 80%, and another set of conditions to alert operators when space usage reaches 90%.
Gather more information about what is causing the high space usage.
Reconsider the data-protection needs of the end users. Verify that the group configuration matches the data-protection needs. Consider whether appropriate file types are being protected, and if the clients are saving the appropriate number of versions of each file. You can check activity logs of clients and even view the backup copies on the remote storage locations.

If you noticed a problem with only a single client, you can check the current configuration file of that client to confirm that the end user did not modify some data-protection settings for the client.

Modify the data-protection configuration of the group.
Perhaps you decide that the clients in the accounting group require more storage space than is allocated in their current configuration. You can modify the group configuration in the Groups Configuration task. The new configuration is automatically sent to all clients in the accounting group.