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Re: Admin GUI

2000-02-28 09:17:47
Subject: Re: Admin GUI
From: Bill Smoldt <smoldt AT STORSOL DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:17:47 -0700
Walter,

I agree that they will remain steadfast - not because they don't care about
us but because of the significant engineering expense.  Perhaps, if you
could see all the projects that the *SM team is working on and rate them one
by one, you would agree.  Perhaps not.  They certainly can't share the list
and they're doing the best job they can at prioritizing wants vs. new
features.  Keeping the GUI was expensive.

SSSI doesn't have an Admin GUI, but a daily operations GUI.  STORServer
Manager automates all the daily operations and makes it easy for operators
to run *SM without ever needing to do a Q ACTLOG - all the daily operations
errors show up in red if it requires human attention.  It allows someone who
doesn't know the first thing about *SM to check tapes in and out, and
provides a continuous graphical inventory of tapes.

We could extend it to more administrative functions and we're considering
that.  But the lack of the Admin API makes it risky.  And it may not have
the same look and feel of the old native GUI that we all know and loved.
How would you feel about that?  My assumption is that it isn't just the
speed, but that we got used to the interface and we liked it just the way it
was.

Bill Smoldt    SSSI
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.


 -----Original Message-----
From:   ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]  On Behalf 
Of
Walter Ridderhof
Sent:   Monday, February 28, 2000 5:25 AM
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject:        Admin GUI

     I.M.H.O

     even though complaints are plentifull on the dropping of the Admin GUI
     I believe Tivoli will remain headstrong and continue to reply 'You've
     got the WEB interface, what are you complaining about'.

     Well I still prefer the GUI and I love it. If they're not going to
     give us the GUI then give us the @#&?!! admin api and let third party
     providers build a GUI on any platform they like (I believe SSSI has
     trodded this area ?). I'd rather pay for that than being forced to use
     something I just plain do not like to use, and it was and still is a
     usability issue.


     regards Walter Ridderhof

     P.S. the reply about using JAVA holds truth, cross platform GUI should
     indeed not be an issue.
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