I appreciate all the input. I have thought about Aptare and maybe contacting
them for an eval, but then something always comes up. For now, everyone here
is content with the reporting that I have provided, free of charge, of
course. So, that will have to do. 

Ed,
Hopefully in the near future, things will settle down, and if I can persuade
upper management to sign off on my time devoted for this, I can look at
Aptare. If you have any more good and bad  experiences with this product, I
would like to know. thanks again. 


-djb


Dwayne J. Brzozowski
Department of Veterans Affairs
Austin Automation Center
Team Lead-Open Systems Support
email:dwayne.brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov
phone:512-326-6728
 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Greenberg,
Katherine A
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:49 PM
To: Jimmy Jenkins; Ed Wilts; Brzozowski, Dwayne
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] command line reporting

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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