Hi,
Has anyone used Data Fabric Manager with Mozilla Firebird on a Solaris 2.8 server? Technically it is not supported (only netscape) so I was wondering if anyone has tried it.
Also how do people feel about Data Fabric Manager? Is it a useful tool?
Thanks for any comments,
Kerry
================================================================ Margaret.K.Herschel@jpl.nasa.gov ICIS Jet Propulsion Laboratory Phone 818.354.1111
DISCLAIMER: The personal and professional opinions presented herein are my own and do not, in any way, represent the opinion or policy of JPL.
Quoting message received from Kerry Herschel:
Hi,
Has anyone used Data Fabric Manager with Mozilla Firebird on a Solaris 2.8 server? Technically it is not supported (only netscape) so I was wondering if anyone has tried it.
Mozilla was OK, Firebird should.
Also how do people feel about Data Fabric Manager? Is it a useful tool?
What is useful? ;-) To show your boss a few graphs its ok, for all other thing it's just a "nice to have". You might get a 30 day trial license from netapp to make a test ride.
Greetings,
Kerry,
We have 21 filers and are using DFM quite extensively for disk space forecasting and purchase planning. We group the volumes/qtrees by the different areas of our design team. Managers of those areas can look at trending to help forecast their future needs. Being that we have such a large installation I view DFM as a wonderful tool. I can see where you might not have such a need if your installation is smaller and easier to manage but for our needs it has been put to use effectively to address these issues. We also use it to monitor the machines and email/page us if there is a problem. Since the machines only email/page on reboot if there is a crash, DFM gives us fast visibility to problems. You could rewrite that function with shell scripts I suppose but this is another reason we like this tool.
Your milage may vary. C-
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:17:41PM -0700, Kerry Herschel wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone used Data Fabric Manager with Mozilla Firebird on a Solaris 2.8 server? Technically it is not supported (only netscape) so I was wondering if anyone has tried it.
Also how do people feel about Data Fabric Manager? Is it a useful tool?
Thanks for any comments,
Kerry
================================================================ Margaret.K.Herschel@jpl.nasa.gov ICIS Jet Propulsion Laboratory Phone 818.354.1111
DISCLAIMER: The personal and professional opinions presented herein are my own and do not, in any way, represent the opinion or policy of JPL.
Its a great tool, useful at many different levels - statistical evaluation, problem reporting, system management, etc. I wouldn't want to give it up at this point. However, it has room for improvement - for instance, site managers need more control over their sub-set of filer parameters (set alarm levels, etc) It would be nice if we could provide a custom formula for predicting volume growth.
-Ed
Kerry Herschel wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone used Data Fabric Manager with Mozilla Firebird on a Solaris 2.8 server? Technically it is not supported (only netscape) so I was wondering if anyone has tried it.
Also how do people feel about Data Fabric Manager? Is it a useful tool?
Thanks for any comments,
Kerry
================================================================ Margaret.K.Herschel@jpl.nasa.gov ICIS Jet Propulsion Laboratory Phone 818.354.1111
DISCLAIMER: The personal and professional opinions presented herein are my own and do not, in any way, represent the opinion or policy of JPL.
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