Availability Reporting - Ping

Ping reporting allows you to monitor how available your storage server is on the network. To do this, regularly scheduled Pings are sent out from the Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Server to all of the monitored Agent machines in your environment.

The Server checks not only for whether the Agent is available on the network, but records the amount of time that the request was in transit on the network. This allows you to get an idea of the responsiveness of the various storage servers on the network as well.

Reports:

The fields provided in the reports are:

Field Name

Description

% Available

percentage of successful pings

Transmitted

number of pings transmitted

Received

number of responses from the ping

Damaged

number of responses with errors

Avg Transit Time

average time it took to send and receive response from a ping

Max Transit Time

maximum time it took to send and receive response from a ping

Min Transit Time

minimum time it took to send and receive response from a ping

Report Start Time

start time of information in this row

Report End Time

end time of information

Note: You can sort on any of these columns by simply clicking on the column name at the top of the report. You can also generate charts and drill down on each resource for more detail.

For more information, see Availability Reporting - Overview.