Configuring and Using TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) to Collect and Report SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Data

Overview

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data is a premier Java and Web-based solution designed to help to identify, evaluate, control, and predict the enterprise storage management needs. This paper provides detail step-by-step instructions to configure TotalStorage Productivity Center to collect SVC data, to utilize TPC GUI to review out-of-box TPC for Disk reports that are applicable to SVC and to create customized TPC reports to monitor specific metrics or specific SVC resources.