I'm contemplating what NMC means for a global organisation.... Eg   say you 
have 20 legato systems spread out over the planet and you want one NMC to 
manage and report on all of them which is at head office....   But you also 
want NMC's at key regional offices so that admin can be done without relying on 
the WAN being up...

My reading of the NMC doco suggests that each networker server has a local 
hidden RAP database which is regularly staged over to the nmc central database 
and then cleared... This might make having multiple NMC's bad... Unless there 
is a way to stop a particular NMC from transferring the data and just being an 
Admin console..

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu] 
On Behalf Of Siobhan Ellis
Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:19 AM
To: NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Networker] Legato 7.3

I can only speak from the point of view of 1 year ago, but there was no 
intention to stop putting effort into the CLI.
 
NMC is not just an admin GUI, it's also a reporting package and it can run on 
Linux. It's free. Try it! :-)
 
Siobhan
 
Siobhán Ellis
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ENSTOR Pty Ltd
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>>> lnxgeek AT US.IBM DOT COM 5/01/2006 4:04:53 am >>>

Tim Mooney wrote:
> As an aside, it was kind of a surprise to me to find out that 
> apparently a lot of customers don't like the nwadmin GUI on UNIX and 
> have been clamouring for a replacement.  Maybe it's because I've been 
> using it so long that it's warped my brain, but I really don't have 
> any complaints about the native Motif GUI.  It's not perfect by any 
> means, but I can think of lots of other places in the product where I 
> wish Legato/EMC would spend more time.

I'm sure I'm in the minority here but our environment is 100% Linux and I don't 
think I've fired up a Networker gui in 5 years. Our servers do not X installed, 
just the required support libs to satisfy dependencies. 
Everything we do is via SSH or console, and in that area Networker shines. The 
Networker CLI tools and man pages are outstanding in my opinion and big reason 
why Networker is one of the few closed source vendor backed solutions our Linux 
admin team actually likes. (Or at least we don't whine about it daily!)

My concerns would be the command line tools functionality languishing in the 
face of development efforts for NMC or other gui solutions along with excessive 
install requirements to support a gui interface we never plan to use. While I 
understand the marketing need to provide a capable gui for administration I 
hope that what I consider one of the core strengths of Network doesn't die.

--
Scott Russell <lnxgeek AT us.ibm DOT com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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