Jason

Aptare has an agent that sits on each NetBackup master server.  It receives 
input whenever a job completes and immediately updates the Aptare database.  
For running jobs it runs a bpdbjobs command on a regular basis (This is 
tunable).  I believe we have ours set to every 5 minutes.  So although it is 
not exactly real time, you can get it as close to real time as you want.  There 
are several other tunable processes that pull other information such as 
drive/disk STU stats, tape volume information and job image catalog information.

It's a great product and really easy to use out of the box.  If you want more 
information email me direct.  I would be willing to talk or email about any 
other questions you have. monte at qualcomm.com

Monte

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at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jason
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:50 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Has anybody used Aptare?

We're looking at possibly purchasing Aptare and are wondering if anybody
has used it before. It supposedly pulls data "real-time" from the
environment, and I'm curious as to how it accomplishes this.

http://www.aptare.com/storageconsole_overview.jsp

Currently we have Bocada (http://www.bocada.com/index.php), a base
install and haven't really started going into it and actually
customizing the application to suit our needs.

Any input on Aptare would be appreciated. Thanks!

Jason


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