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* Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> [2005-09-13 12:22]:
>=20
> 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.

Have Storage Console, love it.

Having said that, it _does_ cost money, so you need to weigh the value
of your time against its cost and see what comes out on top.=20

You _can_ get long-term history _if_ you plan for it. Before using SC,
we ran daily dumps of bpdbjobs -all_columns and stored it for later
retrieval. That worked fine for creating historical views with the
existing scripting.

I have to agree with the "rather be an admin than a report generator"
statement. I have been harassed quite a lot less about reporting since
we started using SC.=20

--=20
David Rock
david AT graniteweb DOT com

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