Re: [Networker] 2005 EMC Technology Summit

It's there TODAY in NMC V3.1

Siobhan

Siobhán Ellis
Senior Technology Consultant
Enstor
Level 10, 118 Alfred St
Milsons Point
NSW 2061
Australia

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>>> stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU 05/20/05 1:00 AM >>>
On May 18, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Siobhan Ellis wrote:

> Stan,
>
> I e the Product manager for NMC until late 2003, and was in EMC  
> until late 2004. I was responsible for NMC 3.0 and 3.1(the current  
> release). I can tell you that the new GUI is based on NMC, which is  
> Java based. It is a Java web start application, rather than an  
> applet. It is now being bundled free with every new Network & Power  
> Edition NetWorker server. It is availabel, today, on Windows &  
> Solaris, I believe the intention is to certify Linux as well. As it  
> is a Java 1.4.2 application, it should work with any implementation  
> of Java 1.4.2 that supports Webstart. I can tell you that before I  
> left, I tried it with OpenVMS and, with a little work, it worked on  
> that OS. NMC is based on the Windows GUI for functionality, but is  
> missing a couple of items, one of which is saveset restore.  
> However, it also has some great enhancements, I say modestly, such  
> as the drive list is by Hardware Id, so if you have 10 systems  
> sharing 4 drives, you don't see 40 devices, as you do with Windows a!

This is wonderful news! That resource copying feature would be a  
welcome addition! Most of my client entries are almost identical in  
their configuration, so being able to copy an old entry to create a  
new entry with a different client name would be a very good thing!

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