Creatable Objects

You can create a number objects when working in Tivoli Storage Resource Manager to help simplify the Monitoring, Alerting, and Reporting process. Objects represent reusable definitions you can execute to perform specific tasks. Each object you can create belongs to a specific object type.

The main Tivoli Storage Resource Manager object types appear in the product function tree and are defined in the following table:

Object Type

Function and Use

Groups

Create named groups of computers, file systems, directories, users, and OS user groups within Tivoli Storage Resource Manager. This allows you to more easily refer to those entities when you are defining things like monitoring jobs.

Discovery

A Discovery job allows you to define when you want to run the Discovery job and what alerts to trigger. The Discovery job will search the network for new computers that are not yet being monitored by Tivoli Storage Resource Manager.

Probes

Create Probe objects to itemize and create and inventory of your storage assets, such as computers, controllers, disk drives, file systems, logical units, etc.

Pings

Create Ping objects to track the availability of your storage assets.

Scans

Create Scan objects to monitor the usage and consumption of your storage.

Profiles

Create Profile objects to define what files you want to scan and what statistical information you want to gather.

Quotas

Create Quota objects to control how much space a user, or group of users, can consume. This consumption can be controlled at three levels: the filesystem level, the computer level, or the entire network level.

Constraints

Create Constraint objects to define what are "acceptable" and "unacceptable" file types, file sizes, and file owners on a computer or a set of computers in your environment. This allows you to do things like restrict users from storing files such as MP3 files on servers.

Alerts

Create Alert objects to define events that you want Tivoli Storage Resource Manager to watch for. By defining the events that you want to be alerted about, you will be notified by the product in the manner you specify when one of those events occurs.