It came from the sites that have 1200 node clusters,
and the sites with 16 Regatta-H and Squadrons-H systems with their
multiple ESS arrays and all of the 1000 different products IBM sells.

Each group of customers has a few loud proponents for 1-4 admins
being able to manage an entire enterprise by themselves.

IBM can't very well say "You're crazy", so instead, the Integrated Service
Console came about.  Ultimately, it's supposed to manage CSM, HMCs, AIX.
SVCs, ESS, and all of the other three letter acronyms of IBM, plus more.

-Josh
On 06.03.06 at 14:25 Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU wrote:

Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:25:41 -0500
From: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: TSM 5.3 web gui

And WHERE did this notion of "one consolidated front end" come from?
Who does it help?  In any site with more than 1 staff person, the
division of labor is that the Storage person uses all the storage
products, not just the Tivoli products;  the Security person uses all
the security products, not just the Tivoli security products, etc.  It
makes sense to drive all the Tivoli STORAGE products from one
(non-websphere) interface, but not "everything".