Are you an Aptare salesman? Your "salesey" nonsense is
not welcome on this site, sir. This is not a sales
format, rather it is knowledge sharing format!

--- Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:02:40PM -0500,
> Brzozowski, Dwayne wrote:
> > I have heard people mention Aptare before. It
> probably would be a good tool
> > to use. The problem is, I don't have the time to
> install,configure, and
> > support another tool of that nature. Maybe one
> day...
> 
> Aptare StorageConsole is an awesome product.  It's
> not much effort to
> manage - it basically takes care of itself and the
> server is treated as
> an appliance. 
> 
> If you continually add a lot of servers you may want
> to group them for
> easier reporting but you certainly don't have to.
> 
> > Anyway, I finally wrote a script a while back for
> reporting. 
> 
> If you can write custom scripts and support them all
> yourself, you can
> certainly do so.  However, with StorageConsole you
> don't have to do that
> and the person who fills your shoes after you leave
> will have a much
> easier time.
> 
> > We have a multitude of various customers and
> separate each customer's
> > policy by a 4 letter, somewhat of a code that
> begins their policy
> > name. That way, I can run my script for reporting
> and parse each
> > customer report by the 4 letter descriptor in the
> policy, and send
> > output to each customer every morning before I
> even get out of bed.
> > They like the output so I'm happy.  I've included
> some of the output
> > from the report produced by my script, with
> explanations. 
> 
> That's do-able in StorageConsole too - you can crank
> out your own
> reports out of the database.  One of the main
> benefits of SC is that you
> get a long-term history.  The other day our director
> asked for a yearly
> trend on backup volumes - that's something that you
> can't do relying
> only on NetBackup and shell scripts without some
> sort of add-on product.
> My director has a login to the SC portal and answers
> most of the
> questions himself.  I'd rather be an admin than a
> report generator.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 
> -- 
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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