Having worked with Brian and crew a few years back, when it was just 3000 policies, I must say it worked great then. It was just as easy to manage as the 50 or so policies I inherited where I am working now, perhaps even easier because all the policies I have now were created with no plan in mind.
Chuck Tipton
>>> <briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com> 7/23/2007 6:51 PM >>>
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-----
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[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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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies
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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Of course, just don't make a typo for > 4k polices in your cmd line loop
:)
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