I fall right in between both of you.  I also enjoy the "snail" feature
which easily identifies slow running jobs as well as hung jobs that
haven't moved data in awhile.  However "real time" it is, I do
experience lag time and use it more as a guideline than gospel.  This is
my alert to go check the Activity Monitor for specific jobs and act on
them.

Brian 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:04 AM
To: Paul Keating
Cc: Greenberg, Katherine A; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare vs. NB 6.0 NOM reporting

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:30:14AM -0400, Paul Keating wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> > Of Greenberg, Katherine A
> >  
> > The thing I really like about Aptare is it's *real time* 
> > capability. 
> 
> However, it does not give you *real time* data untill after the job
has
> completed.
> In my opinion, that isn't exactly "real time".
> ;o)
> No indicators are provided, as to the status of running jobs.
> ie, jobs that have been running for 24 hours transferring 100KB/s,
> because of a network issue, or Netbackup mistakenly mounted the tape
in
> a NDMP attached drive and is routing data all over kingdom come.

This statement is absolutely false.  Bringing up the Command Center
Dashboard, I can see the status of all of the running jobs - jobs that
are long-running are flagged with a little clock.  Jobs that are running
slowly are flagged (I forget the symbol for that - might be a snail).
Both of those cases have the job details flagged in red versus the blue
for the normal jobs.  All jobs include KB, KB/sec, elapsed time, and the
time data was last written for th job.  The real-time job summary gives
me the number of active jobs, queued jobs, completed jobs, etc.  

The screen shots on Aptare's web site don't currently include the
Command Center dashboard, but it's been there in every release I've run
over the last few years.

        .../Ed

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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