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From: seb022@tijc02.UUCP (Scott Bemis         )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Resource management software
Message-ID: <105@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 15:31:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  8 15:31:36 1986
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Organization: Texas Instr., Johnson City TN
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Last December, I had the honor of becoming a system administrator two 
VAX 11/785s running AT&T UNIX V Release 2 Version 2.  Since UNIX has
become very popular at my place of employment, these two VAXes are being
used more each day. Hence, I need to predict when to purchase another VAX
or more disk drives (several months in advance). I have found the system
accounting that comes with UNIX V to be lacking. It does not give the
information I need in a clear format (in a manner that I can show to
management and prove that I need more hardware). 

IS there any software out there that ties into the system acounting provided
with UNIX and produces meaninful reports? I would really like something that
writes the accounting information into a database (relational if possible).
Then I could query the database for past trends in many different ways. Armed
with an accurate knowledge of the past, I could load this information into
a spreadsheet to try to forecast the future, using several scenarios. Here
is good chance for a vendor to make some CA$H! I will fight to get funding
to purchase a good resource management package. 


Scott Bemis
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