Ability to group policies for easier viewing
Updated: 18 Aug 2010 | 7 comments
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I would like to suggest an enhancement to the (windows) GUI for netbackup.
It would be nice if we could define arbitrarily-named groups so we can place policies into them. This is purely for display/grouping purposes.
We could then easily separate policies belonging to certain locations or created for a certain purpose (for example test or VCB or Exchange) so we do not need to scroll through hundreds of policies...
A variation/extension on this idea could be to have a 'view by policy', 'view by client name' or 'view by grouping' choice for the policies-treeview.
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Grouping/tree structure layout of policies
Regards Andy
"It's not too late to panic ..."
LOL, or, you could plan
LOL, or, you could plan first, and use a naming scheme....
Start your policies with a category, like WIN, UNIX, RMAN, VAULT, or TEST, PROD, QA...
Voila - it is sorted!
NBU 7.0.1 on Solaris 10
writing to EMC 4206 VTL
duplicating to LTO2 in SL8500
(Soon to be LTO5)
using ACSLS 7.3.1
Even with a good naming
Even with a good naming scheme (which we actually have) you end up with hundreds of policies.
The point is that by showing the (grouped) policy list in a treeview you unfold only the category you are interested in and do not need to scroll through hundreds of policies you are not interested in...
If you have naming
If you have naming conventions for your policies, you can use view filtering.
you can allways have naming
you can all ways have naming conventions and something will trip you. Copy to new triggers new full backups, renaming the policy is dodgy (and unsupported, I think). Folders give you greater flexibility
Also a memo field at the
Also a memo field at the policy attributes will be nice.
PLEASE PLEASE!! Let us create
PLEASE PLEASE!! Let us create "folders" for the policies!! I'm not that large of a NBU shop and I even have about 100 policies! I'd love to be able to create folders like Windows, AIX, Echange, TEST, VMware!
Keep the ability to "see all" though.
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