Schedulable Jobs

Another type of creatable object are Schedulable Jobs. When you expand the function tree under a named object (for example, Probes), the actual job runs for that object are displayed.

The schedulable job objects are defined in the following table:

Job Type

Function and Use

Discovery job

A Discovery job allows you to define when you want to run discovery 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.

Probe job

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

Ping job

Ping jobs track the availability of your storage assets.

Scan job

Scan jobs monitor the usage and consumption of your storage.

You can create many Scan jobs to monitor the file systems of any computer or subset of computers.

Quota Checking Job

Quota Checking jobs control how much space a user, or group of users, can consume.

Aggregator Job

Aggregator Jobs run on a periodic basis and sum up storage usage across computers to allow for enforcement of quotas that span multiple machines.