Q1 : What are the phases of discovery in Itnm?
A :
Now that the discovery has started, can monitor the progress of the discovery on the Network Discovery Status page. Use the status in the Discovery Phase field to determine how the discovery is running:
Until the first device is discovered, the discovery phase is Idle/Standby
- After the first device is discovered, the status changes to Discovering Network
- As further devices are discovered, the count in the Processed IP Addresses field increases.
The discovery then runs through the following statuses:
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- Downloading ARP (2)
- Downloading Connections (3)
- Correlating Connectivity (-1)
After the discovery is completed, the status reverts back to Idle/Standby (0).
Q2 : What is migration? use of migration?
A : Migration is used to move client files from one storage pool to the next storage pool in the storage hierarchy. Migration will make some empty space in disk pools which can be used for taking backup of the client machine.
Q3 : What are various Connector modes in TDI?
A :
• Iterator.
• Lookup Connector.
• Addonly
• Update.
• Delete
• Delta
• Server
Q4 : How will you clean the drive?
A : Generally, tape library will have separate cleaning drives, we have to just mount that drive through Library GUI. OR From TSM Server we can run “clean drive” command, this will also mount the cleaning cartridge/tape onto the drive and starts cleaning.
Q5 : What are the benefits of Taddm?
A : The benefits of TADDM are as follows:
- TADDM provides information about the currently running application on the network.
- TADDM helps in understanding the computing environment of your organization.
- By TADDM we get to know which applications and services are deployed on the network.
- TADDM can also discover the relationships between applications and services.
- By the help of TADDM, we can determine the network related problems.
- By TADDM we can determine the compliance related problem.
Q6 : Give the overview of TADDM Components.
A : Discovery Manager: The server running the TADDM discovery processes.
Administrative Console: It provides the server status, runtime, and license information.
Discovery Client: A java based GUI on which we can configure and run discovery processes.
Domain Manager: A portal in the administrative console with which you can view all your configuration items and manage users.
Anchor Servers: These are required to run the discovery in firewall zones.
Windows Gateway Server: These are required to discover the windows systems.
Database(CMDB): The repository to store the information collected after discovery.
Q7 : Write the command to split the ITM agents?
A : tacmd exportBundles -o SPD -t ux -e <full path of directory where to store the split image > -i <Full path to the directory where agent file after extracting>/unix
Q8 : What are the parameters in the copy group?
A : version exist, version deleted, retention extra, retention only, serialization, destination, mode, frequency …… etc.
Q9 : Write the steps to start Tbsm?
A :
- Stop ngf service
- update alerts.status set RAD_FilterIDList = ”, RAD_ServiceName=”, RAD_IsIntermediateFunction=0, RAD_FunctionType=”
- delete from service_deps table in Omnibus
- start 104 ngf service first and then start
- 106 ngf service
Q10 : What is collocation? Where will you update it?
A : Collocation is the process of keeping the client backed up data in a minimum number of tapes. Collocation can be done by nodes, node groups and by Filespace. We will update collocation while defining or updating storage pool definitions.
update stgpool colloc=node
Q11 : Give a brief overview of CMDB?
A : It is a data store or logical collection of data that contains all the information about IT assets.
It maintains the relationship between these assets, CIs and their changes.
It can become a reliable and accurate source of information if managed properly.
The major difference between the CMDB and any other data repository is of making the relationship between the Configuration Items.
Q12 : What are the features of Business Service Management?
A : Business Service Management features the following products:
- IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager.
- IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor.
- IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console.
- IBM Tivoli Netview.
Q13 : What are the two main catalogs managed by the image library?
A : 1. Saved Images
2. Master Images
Q14 : Where/How will you see, if errors occurred in the tapes?
A : 1. We can check it in actlog for hardware/media & read-write errors by using the command – “q actlog se=errors”
2. To determine read/write errors for a particular volume run the command “q volume f=d“.
This output will show the number of read/write errors occurred to that particular volume.
Q15 : State the OS requirements to install TADDM?
A : AIX 5.2, Fix Pack 7 or later, or 5.3(current release).
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server version 4 or 5(32 or 64 bit).
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 or 10(32 or 64 bit).
Sun Solaris SPARC version 9 or 10.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter, Enterprise, or Standard, SP2 or greater (32 or 64 bit).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System, version 9.0 patch level 3 or version 10.0.
Q16 : What are the Install Support Files to Teps?
A :
- bash-2.04$ ./installIraAgentTEPS.sh /IBM/ITM Installing k2s …..
- Online help for this agent will not be available until the Help Server is restarted, which also requires restarting the TEPS.
Q17 : How to update path?
A : update path source name destinationname srctype=server desttype=drive/library device=devicename online=yes
Q18 : Where/How will you see, if errors occurred in the tapes?
A : 1. We can check it in actlog for hardware/media & read-write errors by using command – “q actlog se=errors”
2. To determine read/write errors for a particular volume run the command “q volume f=d“.
This output will show the number of read/write errors occurred to that particular volume.
Q19 : What are the VM Ware Agent Support File?
A : Install VM ware agent Support file on each of the following-
– HTEMS
– REMOTE TEMP
– TEPS
– TEPS Desktop
Q20 : What is cloptset? Where will you update it?
A : Cloptset is used to define a name for a set of options which you can assign to clients for archive, backup, restore, and retrieve operations. We should first define a cloptset name by using “define cloptset” command and then define each client options to that cloptset by using “define clientopt” command. Then you should use this cloptset name while defining any client node. Generally, cloptset is used to assign extra client options for any particular node from TSM Server end without logging into client machine.
Q21 : What are Domain specific configuration files in ITNM?
A : Although in practice there are some files that you are unlikely to need to alter, in principle all of the following types of files can be made domain-specific:
Configuration files, that is, all files ending in .cfg
Discovery agent files, that is, all files ending in .agnt
Active Object Class files, that is, all files ending in .aoc
Text-based stitcher files, that is, all files in a stitchers directory ending in .stch
Q22 : What is Audit Volume?
A : Audit volume command is used to check the inconsistencies between database information and a storage pool volume.
Q23 : What is the use of Reclamation?
A : Reclamation makes the fragmented space on volumes usable again by moving any remaining files from one volume to another volume. This action makes the original volume available for reuse.
Q24 : Give The Categorization Of IBM Tivoli Software Products?
A : IBM Tivoli Softwares are categorized into six areas:
- Availability
- Business Service Management
- Orchestration
- Provisioning
- Security Management
- Storage and Optimization solution
Q25 : The Run as Administrator option is used to bypass user account control specifically on which operating system?
A : Windows 2008