[Veritas-bu] command line reporting
2005-09-13 15:25:57
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[Veritas-bu] command line reporting |
From: |
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org (Ed Wilts) |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:25:57 -0500 |
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
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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