Tony:
Yes, I jumped out on the web for the info they have on their site, and the
down-loadable demo was somewhat informative (how much could they give away
if they really want to do site visits as they did with you folks?). They're
really pushing hard to show that they are able to bring all the data ADSM
pumps out under one GUI (and that appealed to me), but, in the same light,
IBM's Tivoli has been singing their own praises for roughly the same thing
--- and I have yet to see it with the TME10 product. I just didn't want to
get excited about the product only to find that I have 4 months of
get excited about the product only to find that I have 4 months of
full-time data entry and environment tuning to bring it into any level of
usefulness.
Thanks for the info though.
C.L.Cannam
Storage Management
GENAM/St. Louis, MO/USA
ccannam AT genam DOT com
"Sinclair, Tony" <TJSinclair AT SNOPUD DOT COM> on 05/13/98 06:26:43 PM
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc: (bcc: Cindy Cannam)
Subject: Re: adsm and sams:vantage
Cindy,
We had Sterling Software come to our site and give us a dog and pony
show demo, from what I saw I liked how it handled the reporting issue
for ADSM, currently I am collecting data from ADSM and putting it in
Access/Excel Our NT Admin also liked the NT portion of their
product....We just haven't been able to convence management to spend the
money for the product; you see we are a Public Orginization, so we have
to bid everything...But yes I agree with you it looks on the surface
like an outstanding product.
They have a URL at www.storage.sterling.com, so you can request a demo
of the product.
Tony Sinclair
ADSM Admin/Storage Manager
Snohomish County Public Utlity District
tjsinclair AT snopud DOT com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy Cannam [SMTP:CCannam AT GENAM DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 1:37 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: adsm and sams:vantage
>
> Is anyone out there using ADSM in conjunction with Sams:Vantage for
> Distributed Systems for reporting/alert notification/etc.? It appears
> to be
> an interesting product, but before I go through the time and headache
> of
> research and destroy for info for budget justification/management, I
> need
> to know that it really WILL WORK with ADSM, and just how well if it
> does.
>
> Any info or installation nightmares/sweet dreams you have, good or
> bad, are
> welcome.
>
> C.L.Cannam
> Storage Management
> GENAM/St. Louis, MO/USA
> ccannam AT genem DOT com
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