I have seen the exact same thing, and I believe your analysis is correct.  I
know I sometimes get the process out of sequence (do the service installation
before I have actually started the backup client for the first time), and I
would bet that this is where these guys get set incorrectly.

MY personal opinion, which I have stated here before, and no one has been
able to prove me wrong, is that this field is basically window dressing.  It
is set the first time a  node signs on, and is never reset.  I have suggested
that the field be updated if needed whenever a node establishes a session.
In this manner, I could look at it, and know what platform a user is actually
running when I have to do some detective work.  I have customers who started
running a MAC, got rid of their machine and went to NT (I don't understand
why, but that's another issue), and now use the same node name to back up
their NT machine.  I can't imagine what value having the node defined as a
MAC would be in this case....

There is light at the end of the tunnel, as I seem to remember one of the
IBMers telling me that this would be fixed soon (V3????). In the mean time, I
wouldn't worry about it.

Jerry Lawson


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Subject: Platform=Password check ???
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    10/23/97 8:33 AM


I have an NT ADSM server and some NT server clients that show up in the
admin GUI Nodes section with a Platform type of Password Check.  This
happens on a few of them, others are entered correctly as WinNT and AIX.
What exactly does this mean?  I think this may have something to do with
the order in which I create the node, install the client, install the
client schedule service, and finally schedule the client as this doesn't
happen to every client I install.  Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks,
James Louie
Nabisco
Parsippany, NJ