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CA SRM Services

CA SRM Services are mechanisms to define and execute specific data collection and storage management operations. You can activate a service as follows:

• On demand—Execute an operation immediately or at a specific time in the future. For example, you could schedule data collection for after work hours so the information is ready when you return.
• Periodically—Execute an operation at a regularly scheduled time. For example, you could schedule data collection to occur every Sunday night at 12:00.

You can group services together and execute the group as a procedure. A procedure is a sequence of service invocations executed with one command. Services in a procedure can run in parallel or in sequence. When services run in sequence, a service can start only after the previous one terminates.

CA SRM supports the following services:

• Automate—Used to test certain conditions in the system and take a predefined action on the objects that match the condition.

  Note: CA SRM previously referred to Automate service as the Threshold service.

• Backup—Used to backup files and volumes automatically using a CA ARCserve Backup server.
• Classes—Use this service to define and name a collection of database objects. You can use a class wherever you would use an existing CA SRM object, for example, in queries
• File Groups—Used to periodically collect file information (based on selected classes) from a selection type. For more information about classes, see CA SRM Classes in this chapter.

  Note: CA SRM previously referred to File Groups service as the Group Data Collection Service.

• Procedures—Used to execute services in a defined sequence or concurrently, as determined by the availability of resources and by timing conditions. For example, you can use a procedure to perform a sequence of reports over a specified period. You can incorporate any service into a procedure.
• Query—Used to direct queries to the network, the CA SRM database, or both. The Query service returns the requested information in a dynamic table created specifically to display the results of that query, or it exports the information in one of a variety of formats that can be imported by other applications for post-processing. You can use aggregate functions to perform statistical operations on collected data.
• TSM Message Scanner—Used to scan the TSM servers for client-related and server-related messages.
  • Client Messages—Scans the TSM Server Activity Log file for client messages. The service can accumulate the information in Result files, generate attentions to notify users about potential problems on TSM clients, and set severity indicators on the TSM client object.
  • Server Messages—Scans the TSM Server Activity Log file for server messages. The service can accumulate the information in Result files, generate attentions to notify users about potential problems on the TSM server, and set severity indicators on the TSM server object.