I agree Cris,
Its always interesting to get a different point of view regarding ADSM.
Having used it for three years now, there always seem to be other methods of
managing it.
I think we all benefit from these questions.



"Robinson, Cris" wrote:

> As someone who started using ADSM without any ADSM specific training, but a
> great deal of technical knowledge, one of the first things I discovered is
> that IBM/ADSM's technical writers are lousy and that is because ADSM is not
> intuitive. 90% of the posts on this list are documented somewhere in the "
> Technical manuals" but they are lacking in some details and I find that we
> all do things just a bit different than IBM's Ideal world of ADSM. They are
> trying to reach the largest common denominator like any company that writes
> software.
>
> I understand both points of view but there is no need to be insensitive. One
> of the newbies may save your butt in the future. I like their questions.
> It's kinda like a pop quiz and like the rest of my brothers and sisters in
> the ADSM world a little review once in a while is a good thing.
>
> Thats my opinion, we welcome yours!
> CR
> __________________________________________________
> Cris Robinson
> Sr. Technical Analyst
> Enterprise Storage Management / ADSM
> Liberty Mutual Insurance
> Portsmouth, New Hampshire
> 603.431.8400.54837
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mary Sanscartier [SMTP:msansc01 AT ENG.EDS DOT COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 9:19 AM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Re: howto backup to tape
> >
> > I think you could still make your point with a little kindness.
> > It wouldn't hurt.
> >
> > Mary Sanscartier
> >
> > Christo Heuer wrote:
> > >
> > > Go and look up on device class in your administrator manuals - there
> > > is a difference between being a newbie to ADSM (something we were
> > > all at sometime in the past - some longer than others!), and just being
> > > to lazy to read and learn!!!
> > >
> > > Hope I'm not the only one feeling like this?
> > >
> > > Should this list be the ADSM classroom for all newbies?
> > >
> > > Cheers (And yes - this is supposed to be harsh...)
> > >
> > > Christo Heuer
> > > Johannesburg
> > > South Africa
> > >
> > > >Hi all:
> > > >
> > > >    I  am new to ADSM. I have installed ADSM server at one of the
> > machine.
> > > >      And is able to access it thru webpage.
> > > >
> > > >I wish to backup to tape. The default is to disk. How should I go
> > about?
> > > >
> > > >I guess tape is sequential access storage pool. thus I add tape in it.
> > But
> > > >      it asked for device_class_name. I do not know what
> > > >
> > > >should I put in that field.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Please advise.