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Re: [Veritas-bu] Reporting Tool for NetBackup

2007-08-15 17:37:54
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reporting Tool for NetBackup
From: "rcarlisle" <rcarlisle AT serverwarecorp DOT com>
To: <ckstehman AT pepco DOT com>, "'Kevin Whittaker'" <Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:17:18 -0400
my top two picks would be Aptare Storage Console or Veritas Backup Reporter.  Either of those will meet your requirements, are fairly intuitive to use, have a pretty high degree of customization, and produce a lot of nice canned reports.
 
 
 
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation


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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reporting Tool for NetBackup


Greetings,

We have been using Aptare for the past 5 years.  I highly recommend it.  
There are no agents installed on any clients or media servers. It comes with Oracle built in, no extra purchase needed.
The only agents that are needed are installed on the Netbackup Master Server.  They are used to gather the data from
the Master and send it to the portal server.  No JAVA gui's are needed, it is accessed with a Web browser, IE or Firefox
work just fine.  You can run customized reports and have them e-mailed. Their support is excellent.
I would visit www.aptare.com for futher information.


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Carl Stehman
IT Distributed Services Team
Pepco Holdings, Inc.
202-331-6619
Pager 301-765-2703
ckstehman AT pepco DOT com



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All,

I am in the process of looking at various reporting tools for NetBackup.  I just completed looking at backupVISUAL from agite software.  It was a very nice application.

I guess I wonder what everybody else thinks of the reporting tool that they use?

Also what other tools should I look at?

Things I want to avoid:
1)  JAVA based GUIs

2)  Ones that require me to purchase a database application like ORACLE.

3)  One that requires I load on each netbackup client

4)  One that requires I load on each media server.

Any opinion on backupVISUAL or on any other application would be appreciated.

Kevin Whittaker
Syniverse Technologies

Systems Engineer - UNIX Admin

Work: (813) 637-5502

Cell: (813) 810-6456
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