Take a look at APTARE StorageConsole and the Backup Manager. Best NBU analytics 
product out there today, IMHO. The out-of-box reports are very extensive, 
custom reporting is also available. Very easy to set up and start collecting 
and reporting.

http://aptare.com/products_backup.php

Jerry Hoetger
APTARE
Jerry.hoetger AT aptare DOT com


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dennis 
Peacock
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:22 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] options for reporting other than OpsCenter?

I have experience with various reporting tools. These include "WysDM", Backup 
Profiler by Solarwinds, and OpsCenter with Analytics.

The info you want out of OpsCenter will require you to write your own SQL code 
to generate the report and format you want. Profiler does a great job and has a 
lot of canned reports. All the reporting tools use the same command sets to 
extract the info from the backup product and stores that info in a database for 
the end-user/admin to generate reports from. Even with the Advanced Analytics 
(the one you purchase to run with OpsCenter) has a lot to be desired about 
reporting and the info you need/want. We've had to write custom sql scripts to 
get the info and format we need out of OpsCenter.

So far, the tool I like best for monitoring and reporting is the Solarwinds 
tool....Backup Profiler.

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