Have you had any issues with NBU6.0 with that many polices? That does make 
a lot of sense for reporting purposes..  I just wonder how stable is it 
under 6.0MP4?  Any issues?

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com wrote:

> It works incredibly well for us.  All management is command line
> scripted for failure analysis, reruns, web-based reports, etc.  The
> biggest benefit for us is that each of our databases has it's own policy
> name, so we use this name to pass in parms to a single script ... An
> example policy name would be:
>
> UDB-Instance-Database-Online/Offline-DB/Log-Retention-Stripes
>
> A single script will then parse that out and submit say a UDB online
> backup for the database with a 30 day retention and since it is large,
> maybe run it in 2 stipes.
>
> And yes, you can cmd line script changes, but for the comment about
> storage units, if you define a STU group, you can change what's in the
> group and leave the STU group the same.
>
> Reporting is extremely specific, and although there is up-front
> scripting time, once you automate 100 policies, 200, 1000, or 5,000 just
> doesn't matter.
>
> We've been doing this for 4 years now and although called crazy by many,
> people that have come in and seen our shop end up sending us a lot of
> compliments after they leave.  We've also had occasions to make changes,
> but we really like the way this runs.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ian
> Clements
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 5:18 PM
> To: Justin Piszcz; David Rock
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>
> Embrace the command line. It is your friend.
>
> I use it to create and manipulate polices all the time--for no other
> reason than the same task undertaken
> in the GUI would take forever :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
> Piszcz
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 3:13 PM
> To: David Rock
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies
>
>
>
> Of course, just don't make a typo for > 4k polices in your cmd line loop
> :)
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