[Veritas-bu] command line reporting
2005-09-13 16:50:13
I'm waiting on Veritas to send me some info about 6.0. My guess is that
the reporting will be a separately licensed feature that you have to
turn on by entering a license key. Since when has Veritas ever given
away stuff?
Brzozowski, Dwayne wrote:
>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
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
--
Jack L. Forester, Jr.
UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
Lockheed Martin Information Technology
(304) 625-3946
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