Hello,

one of our customers wants to implement a SAN (2x ESS F20, 2 STK 9310, 2
TSM Serves p660, TSNM, FC/9000 directors, etc.) but is not willing to
install the Internet Explorer 5 on his Windows servers (for security
reasons).

He wants to know why the IE5 is necessary for the Storage Agent (SA) and if
it's possible to use the SA without it? AFAIK the only reason for the IE5
should be the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) that provides a GUI for
the configuration of the SA. But I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be
possible to configure the SA just with the command line interface. The only
thing I don't know right now is how can I stop the agent via the command
line? Does dsmsta have an undocumented command line switch? And do I really
have to start it manually every time the system is rebooted or is there the
possibility to use dsmcutil to create a service?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
                Dirk Billerbeck


Dirk Billerbeck
GE CompuNet Kiel
Enterprise Computing Solutions
Am Jaegersberg 20, 24161 Altenholz (Kiel), Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 117, Fax: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 190,
Internet: dirk.billerbeck @ gecits-eu.com


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