By the way, I former co-worker of mine, who is a Solaris/NetBackup network
architect in Dallas just had a big meeting with Veritas. There is going to
reporting built in to 6.0. I don't know how detailed or easy it will be to
manipulate the output, but a step in the right direction nonetheless. Has
anyone else heard of the reporting features of 6.0? thanks


-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: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:26 PM
To: Jimmy Jenkins
Cc: Brzozowski, Dwayne; 'Greenberg, Katherine A';
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] command line reporting

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Jimmy Jenkins wrote:
> 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!

Nope - I'm an Aptare customer.  The only benefit I've ever received from
Aptare (other than the product itself, which we paid for) is a polo
shirt.  They need to do better than that if they want to buy my
opinions.

        .../Ed
 
> --- 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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mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org