Also, FWIW, I wouldn't view any of the below products as SRM tools... in
the general sense of how I would define SRM. 

A backup monitoring tool, yes. SRM, no.

That said, I second Ed's sentiment on Aptare Storage Console. It's a
great product. It's as *real time* as you're ever going to get (when a
backup ends, the info is sent from the master to the Aptare server, not
polled like most of the others are) and the support is great.

~Kate


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:35 AM
To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Storage Resource Management


On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:52:16AM -0400, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)
wrote:
> After some prodding by Management I've been looking into "Storage 
> Resource Management" (SRM) tools to assist with monitoring backups, 
> reporting, troubleshooting etc etc...  Currently under evaluation are 
> the following three tools which each have their own strengths / 
> weaknesses and I'm wondering what everyone else is using (if any.)
> 
> Bocada Enterprise 4 - http://www.bocada.com/
> TEK-TOOLS Profiler for NBU - http://www.tek-tools.com/
> WysDM for Backups - http://www.wysdm.com/

Aptare StorageConsole - http://www.aptare.com

I did a head-to-head comparison against Bocada and it wasn't even close
- StorageConsole won by a long shot.  Their support is top-notch - when
I wanted to upgrade my release last week, they set up a Webex to my
workstation and walked me through it.  Not that I couldn't have done it
by myself, but it guaranteed that it was working properly by the time I
was done.  When it came up, Graeme showed me some of the new features
right away.  

StorageConsole supports both NetBackup and TSM but I haven't used any of
the TSM pieces so I have no idea how well they work.

        .../Ed

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