My, my, my!  Is it time for the Aptare discussion again? :)  My how time 
flies.  It seems just like yesterday!  Maybe this time I'll be the first 
to ask how much it costs!  :)

Ed Wilts wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Jimmy Jenkins wrote:
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>>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!
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>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
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>>--- Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:02:40PM -0500,
>>>Brzozowski, Dwayne wrote:
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>>>>I have heard people mention Aptare before. It
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>>>probably would be a good tool
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>>>>to use. The problem is, I don't have the time to
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>>>install,configure, and
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>>>>support another tool of that nature. Maybe one
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>>>Anyway, I finally wrote a script a while back for
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>>>We have a multitude of various customers and
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>>>separate each customer's
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>>>>policy by a 4 letter, somewhat of a code that
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>>>begins their policy
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>>>>name. That way, I can run my script for reporting
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>>>and parse each
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>>>>customer report by the 4 letter descriptor in the
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>>>policy, and send
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>>>>output to each customer every morning before I
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>>>even get out of bed.
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>>>>They like the output so I'm happy.  I've included
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>>>some of the output
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>>>>from the report produced by my script, with
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>>>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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