Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Quick Start


Using the Initial Configuration Wizards

The wizards are tailored to your responses and type of installation, and you may see minor differences between the wizards described here and those on your machine. For example, if you are installing in a standalone environment, the Network Client Options File wizard does not display.

Figure 3. Server Utilities - Initial Configuration Wizards



Server Utilities - Initial Configuration Wizards

Most wizards include a logon window, in which you enter TSM account information. During initial configuration, the environment wizard prompts you for the account information. For subsequent wizards, the logon window appears, but you automatically continue to the next window.

The Initial Configuration wizard marks each task to be performed Task Complete Icon. When a task is complete, the State field displays Complete. If you cancel a task, the wizard asks you if you want to mark the task as complete. If you choose Yes, the wizard marks the task complete, and you continue to the next task. If you choose No, the configuration stops. When you start the initial configuration sequence again, even after you have restarted the server utilities, you will go through Initial Configuration Environment Wizard and then begin the task that you did not complete. To start from the beginning, click Reset.

When you restart your computer after installation, the Welcome to the TSM Server Utilities dialog appears. Ensure that Initial Configuration is selected, and click OK.

Defining the Environment

(Initial Configuration Environment Wizard)

Perform the following steps to define your Tivoli Storage Manager environment.

  1. Specify whether the wizard automatically displays additional tips.
  2. If a server instance already exists, the Configuration Guidance Information lets you choose to either configure that instance or create a new instance.
  3. Select either the standalone or network environment.

Tuning Performance

(Performance Configuration Wizard)

The Performance Configuration Wizard helps you tune TSM performance.

  1. From the Performance Options dialog specify how many clients the server will support and the typical size of the files to be stored. The wizard analyzes your hard drives and displays their rankings.
    Note:The wizard updates the TSM settings. To review the performance report, right click on the Performance wizard entry.
  2. The Completing the TSM Performance Configuration Wizard dialog lets you choose to update the server options, to update the registry with preferred volume information, and to display the performance report.

Initializing the Server


(Server Initialization Wizard
Cluster Configuration Wizard
Disk Storage Pool Volume Wizard
Database Volume Wizard
Recovery Log Volume Wizard)
  1. If the Server Initialization Wizard detects a Microsoft cluster server, it asks if you want to configure Tivoli Storage Manager for use in a cluster environment. If you select Yes, Tivoli Storage Manager will be configured to run in a clustered environment (go to Configuring TSM on the Initial Node).
  2. From the Server Key and Location Information dialog, specify the server instance directory for the information.
  3. From the Server Volume Location dialog, you can enter paths for the initial database, recovery log, and disk storage pool volumes. You can also specify that additional database and recovery log volumes are automatically created as needed (recommended).
    Note:If you want the server to be able to register itself with Active Directory, specify an account name with administrative privilege.
  4. From the Server Service Logon Parameters dialog, specify the account for the service to use when logging on to Windows and whether to start the service manually or automatically.
  5. When the Server Initialization Wizard completes, a wizard starts to help you either configure server clusters or disk volumes depending on your system configuration and the selections you have made so far.

Configuring Disk Volumes

The Volume Configuration Wizards let you create additional database volumes, recovery log volumes, and disk storage pool volumes. The default disk volumes are:

The wizards recommend sizes for the database, recovery log, and disk storage pool. You can accept or modify these recommendations, and the wizards then create any required additional volumes. The wizards are:

Disk Storage Pool Volume Wizard
Specify a storage pool for the volume and estimate the amount of daily incremental data to be routed through the selected storage pool. You may not want to create any volumes for BACKUPPOOL so that it can be used to channel data to disk storage pool volumes or to tape volumes (see Configuring Client Nodes for details).

This wizard is not run if you are configuring for a standalone environment. A direct-to-tape policy is the preferred choice for this environment and is recommended in the Client Node Configuration Wizard.

Database Volume Wizard
Estimate how much client data the server will store. This information will be used to determine how much to increase the database size.

Recovery Log Volume Wizard
The wizard shows you the current recovery log utilization percentage. If utilization is over 75%, increase the log size.

Registering Licenses

(License Wizard)

When you install Tivoli Storage Manager, your system is licensed for the base support, which includes:

Note:If you migrated from ADSM, you must update your license information.

Figure 4. License Wizard



License Wizard

Select the license options you purchased.

Configuring Services

(Service Configuration Wizard)

The Service Configuration Wizard asks if you want to start the TSM server, scheduler, and device driver as Window Services. The device driver is not a service, but is controlled like a service. Ensure that each service is started, and check that the options are set for the desired startup mode and account information.

TSM Server
If the server is not running, click Start. You can change your startup mode to Automatic so that the server starts automatically when you start the computer.
Note:If you plan to use Active Directory with TSM, set the server to run under an account, other than the system account, that has administrative privileges.

TSM SCSI Device Driver
The TSM SCSI device driver is the preferred device driver for Tivoli Storage Manager devices. The server can use resident Windows device drivers for some devices. To see if TSM can use a device that is using a Windows driver, select Device Information in the Server Utilities' tree view. Right-click the device in the list of devices. When you choose NT Device Driver Information... from the context menu, information is displayed indicating if the device is supported by TSM.

If you are controlling devices with the TSM device driver, ensure that it is started at this time.

For more information about the TSM device driver and resident Windows device drivers, see the Server Utilities Online Help.

If you click Start and receive a message indicating that the system cannot find the specified device, Table 4 may help you find the cause of the problem.

Table 4. Problem Determination

Possible Cause To Resolve
A native Windows device driver has your device allocated. Go to the Devices applet in Control Panel. Change the startup mode of the Windows device driver to manual, and restart your computer.
You do not have any devices attached to the computer. Ensure all cables and SCSI terminators are connected and secured.
The device power was off when you started Windows. Turn the device power on and restart your computer.
Note:If the TSM device driver status is Error, the workstation was probably not restarted after TSM installation.

TSM Scheduler
Ensure that you start the scheduler if you plan to use TSM scheduling on this (local) computer. If you are configuring in a network environment, you must install the TSM client software on the remote workstation. Then start the scheduler service on each remote client that will use TSM scheduling. See Working with Schedules on Network Clients for the procedure.
Note:During initial configuration, only the default backup-archive client is registered. If you want to change the account that the scheduler will use, do so after any other clients have been registered with the server.

Configuring Devices

(Device Configuration Wizard)

The Device Configuration Wizard detects manual and autochanger devices that are attached to the server machine. The dialog in Figure 5 displays devices. The left pane displays devices that have not been defined to TSM. The right pane displays devices that have been defined.

To define a device to TSM, move it from the left pane to the right pane. Move a device by dragging and dropping or by using the arrows (> and <). If you decide not to define a device, you can move it back to the left pane.

Note:You cannot move a device that was defined to TSM before you began the initial configuration.

Figure 5. Device Configuration Wizard



Server Utilities - Device Configuration Wizard

Manual devices
To define a standalone, or manual, device and associate it with a manual library, move it to the right.

Autochangers, tape libraries, and associated drives
To define an autochanger and its associated tape drives, move the autochanger to the right and then drag and drop the tape drives on the autochanger. In Figure 5, drive mt5.0.0.1 is associated with autochanger lb2.0.0.1.

For a single drive autochanger: Associate its drive by dragging and dropping the drive on the autochanger.

For a multi-drive autochanger: Associate the drives with the autochanger element number order as described in the autochanger documentation. The documentation shows the physical location and the SCSI element number of each drive. The drives are usually defined as drive 1, drive 2, and so on. In the tree view, the wizard sees drive 1 as the first drive under the autochanger, and drive 2 as the second drive. If you do not arrange the drives in the correct order, TSM will not work as expected. You can rearrange the order of a drive by re-dropping it on the autochanger.

If the wizard cannot determine an element number, it prompts you for one. You can enter the number or click browse... to display the element number lookup dialog (Figure 6). When you select the tape library and the desired drive, the element number is displayed. If your device is not in the list, see the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site at:

http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html

Figure 6. Tape Drive Element Lookup



Tape Drive Element Number Lookup

After you order the drives and autochangers, click Next.

File Devices
File devices are useful if tape drives are not available. When the server needs a new volume, it automatically creates a new 25MB file. If node data is deleted and files become empty, the server automatically deletes the empty files. To set up and use a file device, do the following:
  1. Click File Device... and from the Directory location for file volumes dialog (Figure 7) specify a location for the files.

    Figure 7. Directory Location for File Volumes



    Directory Location for File Volumes

  2. Move the file device from the left window pane to the right pane. The wizard creates a storage pool that is associated with the device.

Configuring Client Nodes

(Client Node Configuration Wizard)

The Client Node Configuration Wizard lets you register client nodes, specify where the backups are stored, and specify the number of backup copies to keep and how long to keep them. This wizard configures backup policy only. ARCHIVEPOOL and SPACEMGPOOL are not displayed.

Note:You should register your remote clients at this time. After you have finished the Initial Configuration, you can install network clients on each network-attached computer. See Appendix E, Installing Clients Using Shared Resources for more information.

Figure 8. Client Node Configuration Wizard



Client Node Configuration Wizard

You can perform the following tasks with Client Node Configuration Wizard:

Scheduling Operations

(Scheduler Configuration Wizard)

The Scheduler Configuration Wizard lets you associate clients with schedules and add new schedules. At installation, two client schedules are associated with the STANDARD domain: DAILY_INCR for daily incremental backups, and WEEKLY_INCR for weekly backups.

In Figure 11, when you select ALL NODES in the left pane, all registered nodes are displayed in the right pane.

Figure 11. Scheduler Configuration Wizard



Scheduling Wizard

Adding a New Schedule

Click Add to open the Add TSM Schedule dialog. Specify the details of the new schedule:

Figure 12. Add Identification for Schedules



Add Identification for Schedules

Figure 13. Add Timing for Schedules



Add Timing for Schedules

Associating a Client with a Schedule

To associate a client with a schedule, drag and drop the client node on the schedule from the Scheduling Wizard. If you drag and drop a client node on a storage pool that is associated with a different domain, the wizard asks if you want to create a copy of the schedule in a different domain. Click Yes makes scheduling nodes easier but increases the number of schedules you must maintain.

Configuring Remote Win32 Clients

(Network Client Options File Wizard)

If you are configuring for a network environment, the Network Client Options File Wizard appears. This wizard helps you configure Win32 network (remote) clients. There must be a network file share that the clients can access.

Note:To install non-Windows clients or Windows clients that cannot access a shared directory, see Tivoli Storage Manager Installing the Clients.

From the Network Client Options File Wizard:

The wizard creates a client configuration package, which includes a client configuration utility, and places it in a network shared directory on a file server. The wizard can create the directory if it does not already exist. The package contains a batch file with the name specified in the wizard. This batch file is run on each workstation.

You must still install the client on the workstation so that clients can change the directory to the network share and run the client configuration utility. The utility reads the file and creates a client option file (dsm.opt) containing the options needed to connect to the server and back up data to that server. See Installing and Configuring Clients for details.

Labeling Media


(Media Labeling Wizard)

This wizard helps you to label tape volumes. Consider labeling several tapes at this time.

Where to go from here

After the Initial Configuration, completes the Information dialog appears prompting you to perform a verification. When you click OK, the backup-archive client is started and a TSM Logon into TSM server dialog appears.

For further information about Tivoli Storage Manager, see the following:


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