I'll throw in my two cents about Aptare.
It's an excellent product. Very nice, and has quite a few features.
The only caveat is that it's kinda pricey. However, you do get what you pay for.
If your company has the money, I'd highly recommend it.
Rusty
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Collins [mailto:josh.collins AT aptare DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:41 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vol 1 #3086 - APTARE StorageConsole
> provides list
> of media going to expire in specific date range
>
>
> Feroz,
>
> You might want to take a look at APTARE StorageConsole.
> At the highest level, it provides backup administrators, managers and
> end users with following:
> -- Historical Reporting
> -- Real-Time Dashboards
> -- Future Forecasting & Predictive Analysis
>
> Specific to your query:
>
> APTARE StorageConsole provides you with a comprehensive list of media
> expiring within a specified date range. The expiration date range for
> the report can be configured to meet your needs.
>
> The resulting exportable Media Summary Report includes the following
> data: media ID, type, status, management server, volume pool, volume
> group, estimated capacity, written mbytes, capacity available, percent
> available, expiration date, slot #, last read date, and last written
> date.
>
> The Media Summary Report can be generated by management server, tape
> library or volume group to provide you with the level of granularity
> which you require.
>
> If you or anyone else would like to play with the product, please send
> an email to demo AT aptare DOT com with the words "Demo Account" in the
> subject, and
> you will receive a login account to a production demo
> environment where
> you can take a test-drive.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Josh Collins
>
> .
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:57:14 +0100 (BST)
> From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Feroz=20F.=20Basir?=" <dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] list of media going to expire in specific date
> range
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way we can query catalog db to get a list
> of media that going to expire in given date range? I
> know I can get a list of media using "bpimagelist"
> command. But it wont give me by expire date.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> regards,
> feroz
>
>
>
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