These are great benefits, what are the downsides of so many polices that 
you have found in the four years using that configuration?

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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