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Inventory for a large Customer Base

br_ram
Level 3

We have a large base of more than 10 + implementations of NBU and its appliances ( various models). Customer would like us to perform an inventory of their setup, in order to check the utilization / performance issues ( if any) and consolidation.

Is there any automated way, other than physically checking the installs? Owing to customer security policies, not all the installs can be reached at a single point. I was thinking in the Lines of "Aptare".

Appreciate any insights from past experience.

 

 

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davidmoline
Level 6
Employee

HI @br_ram 

If you have a friendly relationship with your account team, you could see if they would run a NBAT (NetBackup Analyser Tool) for you across each domain. It's not something that is freely available for customers (but doesn't necessarily have to cost anything to use). It takes time and effort to run and perform the backend analysis. 

Otherwise, Aptare may be a way to go - although it would have to collect the data first (if you have it already monitoring that's a plus). 

David

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davidmoline
Level 6
Employee

HI @br_ram 

If you have a friendly relationship with your account team, you could see if they would run a NBAT (NetBackup Analyser Tool) for you across each domain. It's not something that is freely available for customers (but doesn't necessarily have to cost anything to use). It takes time and effort to run and perform the backend analysis. 

Otherwise, Aptare may be a way to go - although it would have to collect the data first (if you have it already monitoring that's a plus). 

David

Thanks David for your response. 

The notes on the Analyzer tool states, " to perform any upgrade post the tool is run". This can take a while owing to the sales cycle. From your experience with the tool, would it be good to use the same just for analysis, so we give a picture to the customer in terms of -

1. What additional Investments they need to make.

2. Planned Downtime if any required.

3. Manhours towards costing the service.

Additionally, if there is a customer output that you can share, barring the name and other critical details, that would certainly be of help.