For activity monitoring you can't beat the GUI.

For newbies (and tasks done infrequently) the GUI is nice as it often
lets you figure out what to do from its menu selections.

For experienced users the CLI is more flexible because you can give the
flags you want to commands and can also do certain things more quickly.
Also knowing the CLI lets you script things.  A good example is downing,
upping or resetting drives.  I original learned how to do that via the
GUI device monitor but found it incredibly slow.   With the command line
I was able to script it so I could bounce a drive on the master and all
media servers in less time than it took to just shutdown a single drive
on all servers.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Keith W
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:20 PM
To: Veritas List
Subject: [Veritas-bu] CLI or GUI

Reading the mails coming through this thread, I get the impression that
most
folks use the CLI more than the java gui, is this true and why? Just a
curious
semi-newbie question.

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+       Keith           +
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