...Since Aptare has been kicking they're reporting butts, it seems.
I've read that the reporting tool would be free. Previous posts suggest
it's going to be disappointly basic.
Nothing to see here - move along....
-M
-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Jack L.
Forester, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:50 PM
To: Veritas List
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] command line reporting
I'm waiting on Veritas to send me some info about 6.0. My guess is that
the reporting will be a separately licensed feature that you have to
turn on by entering a license key. Since when has Veritas ever given
away stuff?
Brzozowski, Dwayne wrote:
>By the way, I former co-worker of mine, who is a Solaris/NetBackup network
>architect in Dallas just had a big meeting with Veritas. There is going to
>reporting built in to 6.0. I don't know how detailed or easy it will be to
>manipulate the output, but a step in the right direction nonetheless. Has
>anyone else heard of the reporting features of 6.0? thanks
>
>
>-djb
>
>Dwayne J. Brzozowski
>Department of Veterans Affairs
>Austin Automation Center
>Team Lead-Open Systems Support
>email:dwayne.brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov
>phone:512-326-6728
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:26 PM
>To: Jimmy Jenkins
>Cc: Brzozowski, Dwayne; 'Greenberg, Katherine A';
>veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] command line reporting
>
>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Jimmy Jenkins wrote:
>
>
>>Are you an Aptare salesman? Your "salesey" nonsense is not welcome on
>>this site, sir. This is not a sales format, rather it is knowledge
>>sharing format!
>>
>>
>
>Nope - I'm an Aptare customer. The only benefit I've ever received from
>Aptare (other than the product itself, which we paid for) is a polo
>shirt. They need to do better than that if they want to buy my
>opinions.
>
> .../Ed
>
>
>
>>--- Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:02:40PM -0500,
>>>Brzozowski, Dwayne wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have heard people mention Aptare before. It
>>>>
>>>>
>>>probably would be a good tool
>>>
>>>
>>>>to use. The problem is, I don't have the time to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>install,configure, and
>>>
>>>
>>>>support another tool of that nature. Maybe one
>>>>
>>>>
>>>day...
>>>
>>>Aptare StorageConsole is an awesome product. It's
>>>not much effort to
>>>manage - it basically takes care of itself and the
>>>server is treated as
>>>an appliance.
>>>
>>>If you continually add a lot of servers you may want
>>>to group them for
>>>easier reporting but you certainly don't have to.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Anyway, I finally wrote a script a while back for
>>>>
>>>>
>>>reporting.
>>>
>>>If you can write custom scripts and support them all
>>>yourself, you can
>>>certainly do so. However, with StorageConsole you
>>>don't have to do that
>>>and the person who fills your shoes after you leave
>>>will have a much
>>>easier time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>We have a multitude of various customers and
>>>>
>>>>
>>>separate each customer's
>>>
>>>
>>>>policy by a 4 letter, somewhat of a code that
>>>>
>>>>
>>>begins their policy
>>>
>>>
>>>>name. That way, I can run my script for reporting
>>>>
>>>>
>>>and parse each
>>>
>>>
>>>>customer report by the 4 letter descriptor in the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>policy, and send
>>>
>>>
>>>>output to each customer every morning before I
>>>>
>>>>
>>>even get out of bed.
>>>
>>>
>>>>They like the output so I'm happy. I've included
>>>>
>>>>
>>>some of the output
>>>
>>>
>>>>from the report produced by my script, with
>>>>
>>>>
>>>explanations.
>>>
>>>That's do-able in StorageConsole too - you can crank
>>>out your own
>>>reports out of the database. One of the main
>>>benefits of SC is that you
>>>get a long-term history. The other day our director
>>>asked for a yearly
>>>trend on backup volumes - that's something that you
>>>can't do relying
>>>only on NetBackup and shell scripts without some
>>>sort of add-on product.
>>>My director has a login to the SC portal and answers
>>>most of the
>>>questions himself. I'd rather be an admin than a
>>>report generator.
>>>
>>> .../Ed
>>>
>>>--
>>>Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
>>>mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
--
Jack L. Forester, Jr.
UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
Lockheed Martin Information Technology
(304) 625-3946
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