We do almost the same. We pull every week the data from dfm in a sql 2005 database and use the report module of ms sql 2005 to make reports.

We need an overview longer than 1 year and we need also to track data movements. This last thing (I move a qtree/volume to another filer) is very difficult to do in dfm. This is a new resource for dfm.

We have create in dfm a lot of custom tags that we use to build our reports.

Best regards,

Reinoud Reynders UZ Leuven

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com owner-toasters@mathworks.com To: Carl Howell chowell@uwf.edu; toasters@mathworks.com toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Thu Oct 12 02:12:48 2006 Subject: RE: Statistics and Forecasting

We used to dump DFM info into spreadsheets and then conduct analysis on each filer to come up with a simple traffic light report for management with another complex spreadsheet to justify what we were asking for next years disk spend (also based on DFM info and known other factors like upcoming projects).

Since then we've moved to DFM 3.3 so I've been pointing management at a couple of existing reports for day to day stuff (the new multilevel menu is really handy for presenting the right dataset) and made a couple of custom reports for disk usage (another fix over previous DFM's was they changed how growth forecasts were calculated so I 90% believe them now).

I do dump some DFM figures into a spreadsheet every 6 months or so, because I've been hit with a couple of the ever popular "we want growth figures going back to 2002" from various parties in the past.

Andrew

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Carl Howell Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2006 4:28 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Statistics and Forecasting

What are you guys doing to provide storage statistics to your administrators for growth and budget forecasting? We run DFM, but I'm struggling to translate the statistics we get from it into something the administration can understand and act upon.

Thanks in advance for the the help,

Carl Howell Systems Engineer University of West Florida

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