Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Tivoli Workload Scheduler overview -- 1.1.1 Software configurations used for this redbook -- 1.1.2 Tivoli Workload Scheduler concepts and terminology -- 1.1.3 Tivoli Workload Scheduler architecture -- 1.1.4 Extended agents -- 1.2 Tivoli Storage Manager overview -- 1.2.1 What are the benefits of a TSM Extended Agent? -- 1.3 Summary -- Chapter 2. Extended agent functions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Workstation definition -- 2.3 Method options file -- 2.4 Access method interface -- 2.4.1 Method command line syntax -- 2.4.2 Task options -- 2.4.3 Example -- 2.5 Method response messages -- 2.6 Execution and troubleshooting -- 2.6.1 Executing the method -- 2.6.2 Killing a job -- 2.6.3 Method troubleshooting -- 2.7 Summary -- Chapter 3. Case study: TSM Extended Agent -- 3.1 Tivoli Storage Manager operations -- 3.2 Testing the TSM Extended Agent solution -- 3.3 Summary -- Chapter 4. Sample scenarios -- 4.1 TSM Extended Agent solution components -- 4.2 Tivoli Storage Manager command execution -- 4.3 When to use the TSM Extended Agent -- 4.4 TSM Extended Agent installation -- 4.5 Creating job definitions -- 4.5.1 Tivoli Storage Manager client command strings -- 4.5.2 Tivoli Storage Manager Admin command strings -- 4.5.3 Scheduling jobs using the workstation class -- 4.6 Description of the scenarios -- 4.6.1 Database backup -- 4.6.2 Backup device configuration -- 4.6.3 Backup volume history -- 4.6.4 Clean volume history -- 4.6.5 Expiration process -- 4.6.6 Reclamation process -- 4.6.7 Migration process -- 4.6.8 Restore -- 4.7 Summary -- Appendix A. TSM Extended Agent source code -- Parms script code -- TSM Extended Agent code -- Sample tsmxagent.opts file.

Appendix B. Additional material -- Locating the Web material -- Using the Web material -- System requirements for downloading the Web material -- How to use the Web material -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.