You can create a number objects when working in Tivoli Storage Resource Manager to help simplify the Monitoring, Alerting, Policy Management, 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, databases, tablespaces, tables, and users within Tivoli Storage Resource Manager. This allows you to more easily refer to those entities when you are defining Monitoring or Quota jobs. |
Probes (Monitoring) |
Itemize and create and inventory of the files, Instance, logs, and objects that make up your enterprise's monitored RDBMS(s). |
Scans (Monitoring) |
Collect detailed statistics about the usage and trending of your actual storage consumption within Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, or UDB. Scan jobs perform the majority of the work for Tivoli Storage Resource Manager by providing all the data for usage reporting, as well as for Quota analysis.
Scans are useful for gathering extensive storage information about the databases, tablespaces, tables, and users within an environment. |
Profiles (Monitoring) |
Use Profiles to:
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Quotas (Policy Management) |
Use Quotas to define limits on the amount of storage that a user or a group of users can consume. Quotas allow you to specify limits at three different levels for a user or group of users: at the database/tablespace level, at the Instance level, and at the level of the whole network. |
Alerts |
Create Alert objects to define events for which Tivoli Storage Resource Manager should watch. By defining the events that you want to be alerted about, you will be notified in the manner you specify when one of those events occurs. You can choose to be alerted to events related to tables, databases, tablespaces, and Instances. |