Servergraph Plus

Why waste resources because you lack information? Get the most out of the hardware and software resources that you already own. Servergraph Plus is a real-time automated reporting, alerting and monitoring technology. Servergraph Plus lets you control your entire backup environment with minimal effort, reduces complexity, and frees storage administrators of routine tasks enabling them to spend more time focusing on tasks that add higher value to the organization. With Servergraph Plus, you’re back in control!

Spot missed backups immediately – lets your operators know immediately when a backup is missed. Servergraph Plus accurately categorizes clients into four states:

• Completed
• Nodes Missed
• Files Missed
• Filespaces Missed

Servergraph Plus’ Failed Backup Notification system directs the appropriate message to the right person. Failed Backup Notification is very flexible and completely customizable to meet the needs of your environment.

Servergraph Plus displays graphical data on virtually every aspect of backup operation and performance. Servergraph Plus can graph any type of data: daily backup jobs, disk array performance, network performance, server processor loading, and even user-defined data types.

Find bottlenecks and speed up daily processing on your backup servers. Quickly spot performance problems and enable rapid tuning of all backup areas. Graph any client or server statistic for any length of time. New data is automatically displayed on the dashboard ensuring you have a real-time view of your environment.

Servergraph Plus enables you to quickly isolate the location and cause of problems in your backup hardware and software. The Unexpected Events page filters out clutter, and shows only relevant messages and issues that should be addressed. EDT exposes issues with your tape infrastructure keeping it running smoothly.

Servergraph Plus uses trends in historical data to predict when vital resources including databases, storage pools, or filespaces are likely to fill up while EDT monitors tape utilization to ensure you don’t run out of media. This enables you to predict potential problems and prevent them.

Servergraph Plus finds your storage hogs. The Storage Abuser view notifies you if your resources are over-utilized and where excess use is occurring whether it is in backups, archives, or HSM files.

Servergraph Plus supports automated billing. Groups are billed based on storage used and bandwidth consumed based on the billing rates you define for various data storage media.

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a common approach to ensuring compliance within organizations. Servergraph Plus’ Compliance Reports make it possible for you to ensure and certify that data protection services are meeting your business objectives on demand.

• Detect Errors and Take Predefined Action

Servergraph Plus has a minimal impact on the backup server being monitored. To accomplish this, Servergraph Plus gathers data in three ways:

• Activity log: Servergraph Plus collects data from an administrative console session using an intelligent sniffer to record when jobs start and stop, tape speed, and many other statistics that fit the needs of your environment
• Accounting log: Servergraph Plus processes accounting log data offline from the backup server database to gather session information
• Selective queries: Servergraph needs to obtain some information directly from the backup server database Servergraph performs the absolute minimum number of queries for gathering this data. Queries to the backup server database return information including: recovery log utilization, number of scratch tapes, and other information

View your backup environment across an entire enterprise or for a small business report on a single backup server.
Servergraph Plus provides management, reporting and automation for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) running on any operating system.

• Advanced Tape Optimization
• HBA Load Balancing
• Data Path Failover
• Tape Containers
• More…