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13.1 Operations staff The operations team is responsible for monitoring, correcting errors, and working together with technical support to isolate any non-specific error condition. Basically, you need the following logical roles among your current or future Tivoli Storage Manager operations team. Depending on the actual number of people in the team, some or all of these roles may be combined into the same actual person: Operator: Handles Tivoli Storage Manager daily tasks and special server procedures. Technical support: Installs new client code, upgrades server code, activates trace functions, deals with hardware configurations, answers end-user questions, and handles error conditions. Storage Administrator: Performs sanity checks in the environment, evaluates capacity planning issues, and manages storage pools. System Administrator: Manages Tivoli Storage Manager policies, defines new nodes and management classes, and reports error conditions to technical support. Tivoli Storage Manager provides a centralized point for backup, restore, archive, and retrieve operations, as well as backup sets and logical volume operations. All of these functions require monitoring and special operational procedures. As a rule of thumb, consider having at least two people responsible for Tivoli Storage Manager, so that each one can handle the workload in case of a problem (this way you can also avoid the risk of concentrating all your Tivoli Storage Manager information in only one person). All the personnel directly involved in Tivoli Storage Manager administration-the Tivoli Storage Manager operations team-need to divide their Tivoli Storage Manager workload into some basic activities: Server procedures: Start and stop the Tivoli Storage Manager server. Daily operations: Check database free space, check activity log, check volumes in and out, send tapes off-site, request to bring tapes on-site, check Tivoli Storage Manager devices, back up Tivoli Storage Manager database (or monitor its execution), and label new tapes. Error or critical conditions: Bring an off-site volume for the restore; create another database or recovery log; and deal with storage pool shortages, mirror write failures, communication errors, device problems, media errors, off-site tape not found, full or partial disaster recovery, and any other non-specific problems. 396 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide