
36 IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager: A Practical Introduction
Figure 2-7 Availability Report - Ping
Probes
Probes are used to gather information about the assets and system resources of monitored
servers, such as processor count and speed, memory size, disk count and size, filesystems,
etc. If Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases is licensed, then Probes also gather
information about the files, instances, logs, and objects that makeup the monitored
databases. The data collected by the Probe process is used in the Assets Reports described
in 6.2.1, “Asset Reporting” on page 252.
Figure 2-8 shows an Asset report for detected disks.
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