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Re: [Networker] Legato 7.3
2005-12-30 12:49:52
Tim Mooney wrote:
NMC == NetWorker Management Console. I've never used it and have only
seen it demoed once, but it's essentially the cross-platform, Java-based
GUI that's going to replace the nwadmin/networker command on all
platforms, eventually.
Eventually = NOW. You may not have realised this but there is no nwadmin
in the Unix/Linux package for NW 7.3. nwadmin is dead, long live NMC.
NMC is a huge bloated package, and depends on Java. You MUST have a
compatible browser and a compatible Java run-time environment to use it.
On Unix/Linux each user needs to configure a couple of files and set an
environment variable before it will work. On Windows you may need to
mess around with proxy settings. It's not "out-of-the-box" like it
previously was. Also because of the size of NMC and the bundled JRE you
now need in excess of 600MB free disk space to install even a client on
Windows.
Over the last two days I have set up NMC on Windows 2000 and on an
unsupported Linux flavour, and I was cursing at it both times. I got
them working eventually and the GUI looks quite smart, if not a little
too much like the old Windows GUI that I never really liked. If I had
been someone evaluating NetWorker I would probably not have persisted, I
would have already moved on to another backup product and dismissed
NetWorker.
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.
nwadmin is ugly and quirky, but I know where everything is and I love
it. I am not going to share my views about the decision by Legato to
scrap it without even an overlap period, but I'm sure some of you will
have something to say. nwadmin from 7.2.1 or earlier will still work
with 7.3, but as new versions are released, more features will be added
that cannot be configured from an earlier GUI, so it will eventually
become useless. I would really like to see nwadmin live on. Perhaps we
could persuade EMC to release the source code of this obsolete GUI so
that others could keep it alive?
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