HP XP P9000 Smart Manager for Mainframe User Guide (TB589-96001, July 2013)

3 Smart Manager for Mainframe operation
This chapter describes operation of Smart Manager for Mainframe.
About files used by Smart Manager for Mainframe
This section describes the files used by Smart Manager for Mainframe.
Overview of files used by Smart Manager for Mainframe
Smart Manager for Mainframe manages disk configurations and tiering policy groups by using
information defined in files.
Smart Manager for Mainframe uses the following three types of files:
• Tiering policy information CSV file
A user-created CSV file that contains information about volumes or an SMS storage group to be
defined as a tiering policy group.
• Disk configuration definition file
A file that defines storage system configuration information. After a storage system has been
scanned (by executing the KTSCAN command), this file is created when the KTSTORE command
is executed.
• Tiering policy group definition file
A file that defines a tiering policy group. This file is created when the KTIMPORT command is
used to import the tiering policy information CSV file and the disk configuration definition file.
The disk configuration definition file and tiering policy group definition file are generically called
configuration files.
Relationship between files and commands used in Smart Manager for Mainframe
operation
The following describes the relationship between the files and commands used in Smart Manager for
Mainframe.
The numbers in the figure correspond to the steps.
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