Jason, 

We are a big user of Aptare at our shop.  It has been a fantastic product and 
one of the only software tools I have found that we were really able to use 
"out of the box".  It has already helped us be able to add features, solve 
issues, and sell our management on new products in the 9 months since we have 
been using.  I have found that Aptare is also very willing to listen to 
customer input to new feature sets.  When we were looking for a monitoring tool 
for our backup environment, I went to several newsgroups and Aptare seemed to 
be what everyone was talking about.  Now I know why.  One demo of their product 
and we were hooked.  Good luck with your purchase.

 

Rene? Carlisle 
Sr. Systems Administrator


 


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From: Veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces 
at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ambrose, Monte
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:45 PM
To: Ellis, Jason; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Has anybody used Aptare?

Jason

Aptare has an agent that sits on each NetBackup master server.  It receives 
input whenever a job completes and immediately updates the Aptare database.  
For running jobs it runs a bpdbjobs command on a regular basis (This is 
tunable).  I believe we have ours set to every 5 minutes.  So although it is 
not exactly real time, you can get it as close to real time as you want.  There 
are several other tunable processes that pull other information such as 
drive/disk STU stats, tape volume information and job image catalog information.

It's a great product and really easy to use out of the box.  If you want more 
information email me direct.  I would be willing to talk or email about any 
other questions you have. monte at qualcomm.com

Monte

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces 
at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jason
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:50 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Has anybody used Aptare?

We're looking at possibly purchasing Aptare and are wondering if anybody has 
used it before. It supposedly pulls data "real-time" from the environment, and 
I'm curious as to how it accomplishes this.

http://www.aptare.com/storageconsole_overview.jsp

Currently we have Bocada (http://www.bocada.com/index.php), a base install and 
haven't really started going into it and actually customizing the application 
to suit our needs.

Any input on Aptare would be appreciated. Thanks!

Jason


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