In Part I, you have learned how to Install IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 on Windows. In Part II in here, you will learn how to initialize & carry out the initial tune up of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 on Windows.

Initialize IBM TSM 5.5 Server:

1- Select Start => All programs => Tivoli Storage Manager => Management Console

2- Choose standard configuration => hit start to do the Define environment setup & answer the questions of the wizard

3- After the define environment setup finish just hit start again to do the rest of the wizards (Configure performance - Server Initialization - Configure Devices - Configure Nodes) and answer the questions according to your environment.

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Tune & Verify your server Options:

The below changes are to obtain a better performance of your TSM server. If you don’t get what each of these tuning options means at the moment don’t worry. I will cover them later on in a chapter of performance tuning.

1- Stop your server service from TSM Management console as follow:

Start Menu => Tivoli Storage Manager => Management Console

Tivoli Storage Manager => Your Server Name => TSM Server 1 => Reports => Service information

Right click your server instance shown in the service information panel then hit stop.

2- Open your server option file from c:\program files\Tivoli\tsm\server\dsmserv.opt

3- Change the server options file by adding the sharedmem option and change the value of the TXNGroupmax & LOGPoolsize similar to below:

COMMmethod HTTP
COMMmethod TCPIP
COMMmethod SHAREDMEM
TCPNODELAY YES
BUFPOOLsize 32678
LOGPoolsize 2048
TXNGroupmax 8192
DEVCONFig “devcnfg.out”
VOLUMEHistory “volhist.out”

4- Save changes and close the file

5- Restart the TSM Server services

Start Menu => Tivoli Storage Manager => Management Console => Tivoli Storage Manager => Your Server Name => TSM Server 1 => Reports => Service information

Right click your server instance shown in the service information panel then hit start.