About Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback

 

Integrated with IBM's Tivoli Storage Resource Manager suite, Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback uses the storage usage information gathered by Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases to generate invoices that charge back for storage usage.

 

Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback allows administrators to provide usage information on a departmental, group or user level, making the data owners aware of and accountable for their data usage. Costs can be allocated by storage usage by user; disk capacity by computer; tablespace; or filesystem/physical device. By associating different costs to different filesystems, Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback enables you to accurately account for the wide price ranges of various physical devices.

 

Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback also enables you to create cost centers through the creation of user, computer, or tablespace groups, allowing you to charge back individuals or departments for their storage usage.

Purpose of Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback

Today's IT environments are a significant but essential overhead in the operations of businesses and organizations. Because of this, the costs of an organization's storage resources can quickly get out of control without proper monitoring and management.

 

IBM's Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback enables you to evaluate storage costs for users and user groups across filesystems, computers, and an entire network, making data owners accountable for their space usage within an organization. You can then allocate these costs back to the business units being served.

 

By understanding the costs associated with existing and future storage usage, your organization can improve its use of that storage space and reduce the costs associated with its maintenances and upgrades.

 

Monitoring and reporting on the costs of storage usage within your environment is easy using

the functionality provided by Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases. Using Tivoli Storage Resource Manager, you can run monitoring jobs that gather detailed statistics about the usage and trending of the storage consumed by the users and user groups within your organization. Using Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases, you can run monitoring jobs that gather detailed statistics about the usage and trending of the storage consumed within RDBMS instances by the users and user groups within your organization.

 

Using Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback, you can use the information collected by Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases to: