I am also planning to use Vantage DP. Actually I have already installed it,
but so far no real experiences with the product.

The main reason for me to choose Vantage DP is that package enables you to
get a long time view of the increase of your storage environment, i.e.
occupancy of ADSM resources. This is important for me as the snap shot you
get with ADSM query commands or sql statements is not enough to perform
reliable trend analysis.
What I am missing until now is the ability to gather drive load and volume
statistics. I was told by Sterling Software that this is planned for the
next release.

Again, I have no experineces with Vantage DP so far, but of course I'm
interested to learn from others.

Regards,
Werner


Chris De Bondt wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've bee

> n subscribed to this group for a week or two now, and I'm
> pleasantly surpised by the interesting answers other people seem to get
> whenever they have a problem. However, I haven't had 1 single reply to
> my question, so I dare to put it to you all once more:
> "we're planning on testing Sterling Software's "SAMS: Vantage for
> Distributed Platforms" for monitoring the errors, evolution, performance
> etc ... of our ADSM clients and server. Anybody out there currently
> using it got any comments (positive or negative) on the product ? "
>
> Is nobody using this ? Are we the only ones who want to monitor the way
> ADSM is behaving ?
>
> Thanks for taking the time,
>
> Chris

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