What is Data Manager?

Data Manager and Data Manager for databases provide a set of policy-driven automated tools for managing storage capacity, availability, events, performance and assets in your enterprise environment, including NetWare, NAS, SSA, ESS, and Microsoft Cluster Server technologies, as well as RDBMSs such as Oracle, Sybase SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and UDB/DB2.

The functions available within the Data Manager node of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center can help you identify, evaluate, control and predict your enterprise storage management assets. And because it is policy-based, through its autonomic self-healing capabilities, it can detect potential problems and automatically make adjustments based on the policies and actions you have established.

With Data Manager you can improve storage utilization, plan for future capacity, and ensure availability by providing storage on demand for file systems. Highlights include:

• Extensive monitoring and reporting capabilities across platforms
• Policy-based management and automated capacity provisioning for filesystems when user-defined threshold is reached
• Storage utilization management from a file and application perspective
• Generation of invoices that charge back for storage usage on a departmental, group, or user level
• Monitoring of storage assets associated with enterprise-wide databases and notification of potential problems before they occur