Hi Lisa,
  I don't think you need admin on the clients - we have 150 clients here,
and I don't have root or admin rights on most of them.  We place
responsability for client to ADSM backups onto the admins of the clients
(though we do let them know when they haven't backed up their filespaces),
and mainly concern ourselves with the integrity of the server.

  If you examine the scheduling portion of the server, you'll notice that
there is an option to run an arbitrary command on a client.  While I don't
know of its utility for NT clients, I can say that it works very nicely on
UNIX clients.

Jim

> ----------
> From:         Lisa Cabanas[SMTP:CABANL AT MAIL.MODOT.STATE.MO DOT US]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Thursday, October 07, 1999 9:43 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Plea for ammo-
>
> I have just entered the world  of ADSM (been in this position six weeks),
> and I
> am now embroiled in a holy war with my current supervisor over NT admin
> rights.
> I have access to all of the data that we back up-- I am the ADSM admin- I
> hold
> the key to the BIG DOOR, so you wouldn't think that this would be an issue
> (but
> it is).  My supervisor thinks that I can do my job efficiently without
> having
> admin rights on the NT server clients.  I have root to all the AIX ADSM
> servers.
>
> Would you kind, experienced gurus, who have been in the real world (read--
> NOT
> state government) please provide me the ammunition to bolster my argument
> that I
>
> should have admin access to the NT boxen?  The thing that really sucks is
> that
> our manager has already told him I needed the access to do my job.  That
> was
> three weeks ago, and nothing has changed.  My frustration is reaching a
> level of
>
> which I am unwilling to accept. And I am willing to push the envelope for
> a
> short time, but I'll be looking for a new job *really* soon if I can't get
> this
> resolved.
>
> tia
> lisa
>