Hello Richard,

I will have to enable the ITSM account within the test server first, from
where we a pretty good measurement about overhead. Well that's the way it
is.
>From where can I download your program(s) to test it after a while?
Do you invoke them from within crontab? 

Thank you,
Rainer


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] Im Auftrag 
> von
> Richard Sims
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. August 2005 16:32
> An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff: Re: [ADSM-L] AW: [ADSM-L] monthly backup/archive report
> 
> On Aug 3, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Rainer Holzinger wrote:
> 
> > Hello Richard,
> >
> > excellent reports. There's almost everything in which I need.
> > Unfortunately we haven't turned on accounting which is the base of
> > your
> > reporting. I have to convince my customer to enable accounting but
> > they are
> > afraid about the overhead.
> >
> 
> Hi, Rainer -
> 
> I envision Beaker, at Muppet Labs...  :-)
> About all it amounts to is writing an ASCII string to a file, from data
> which has been compiled for other purposes in the server anyway.
> Any "overhead" would be undetectably small; and in any case, the
> value of
> the data far outweighs the tiny cost to write the record.
> Running with accounting turned on is common.
> Fear can be ameliorated by trying out a previously untried feature.
> 
>     Richard Sims