Well, I'm the ADSM administrator, and I don't have (and don't want!) root
authority on the NT machines or most of the UNIX machines here!
I think it depends on your environment.

If there were only a few machines in one central location, and I knew them
all well, I might feel otherwise.
But I don't know enough about the machines to understand their applications,
the best times to back them up, or even which file systems are important.
And I don't know Solaris or HP or SGI enough to even sign on...

So, I sit down with the UNIX admins and the NT admins and walk through a
couple of installs with each of them, and teach them how to manage the ADSM
client.

Then THEY are responsible for keeping the clients running on all their
machines, because they know the file systems and their data better than I do
(and some of the machines are in different buildings anyway.....

THEY are responsible for checking their error logs, scheduler logs, etc.
They let me know if they need help or can't figure out a problem.

I am responsible for warning them via phone or email if I see on the ADSM
server that their clients have missed/failed a backup.

That creates the best division of labor and responsibility in this
environment.  Your mileage may vary!

***************************************************************
Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
***************************************************************





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gail A Johnson [SMTP:Johnson.GailA AT AMSTR DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 6:50 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Authority Questions...
>
> My manager has asked me to find out how other companies are doing the
> following regarding authority on either NETWARE/NT or UNIX:
>
> 1)  What type of Authority do you give your ADSM Administrator in these
> environments (root, console?)
>
>
> 2)  Does the ADSM adsministrator in your shop install the client code or
> does
> someone else install?
>
> We are trying to make a case that the ADSM ADMIN should have root and
> console
> authority in order to do the 'whole job' --
> I am curious as to how others approach this type of issue......
>
>
>
> ...gaj