> From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
> [...] However, I've just started looking into Analytics
> (w/trial key) and was curious if anyone had found any
> "killer features" it offers over the regular OpsCenter
> in terms of metrics/reporting or other things
> I may have missed?

I'm not much for graphics, but the "temperature charts" for data like
tape drive utilization were much more usable than any of my scripted
analyses of bptm and other logs that I've done over the years have
been.  More info for 1/1000 of the work.

> I know you can run custom queries against the OpsCenter
> DB vs. the ~100 or so "canned" reports of the regular
> OpsCenter, are there customers out there who have taken
> advantage of this or any other feature I am not be aware of?

If you're a SQL guy and can puzzle out enough of the schema
(apparently, a VBR background and documentation is a big help with
that), it's pretty easy to write custom SQL for admin or user reports.


You can also add custom objects to the schema but a) the method seemed
awkward and undocumented to me and b) it seems necessary to plan ahead
to remove all customizations before a version upgrade, then reapply
[and re-test, re-verify] afterwards.  And that makes sense to me--if I
were customizing the metadata files in the NetBackup catalog, I
wouldn't expect the vendor's upgrades to function properly with
arbitrary user changes to those files.


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