Policies are rules that you set at the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server to help you manage client data. Policies control how and when client data is stored, for example:
Policy can be distributed from a configuration manager to managed servers. See Chapter 13, Working with a Network of Tivoli Storage Manager Servers for more information on distributing configurations.
See the following sections:
In this chapter, most examples illustrate how to perform tasks by using the TSM command line interface. For information about the TSM commands, see Administrator's Reference, or issue the HELP command from the command line of a TSM administrative client.
All of the TSM commands can be performed from the administrative Web interface. For more information about using the administrative interface, see Quick Start.