[Veritas-bu] command line reporting
2005-09-13 14:49:00
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[Veritas-bu] command line reporting |
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GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com (Greenberg, Katherine A) |
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Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:49:00 -0400 |
Chill out man!
For those of us who are considering buying Aptare (or any of the other
products out there that report against NetBackup, since Veritas/Symantec
has NEVER made anything viable), the thoughts of people on this list who
are using something that works well for them are WELCOME.
Get a grip!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Jenkins [mailto:jimjenk AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:10 PM
To: Ed Wilts; Brzozowski, Dwayne
Cc: Greenberg, Katherine A; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] command line reporting
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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