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Re: Client install process

1996-09-25 18:22:57
Subject: Re: Client install process
From: Jim White <jwwhite AT SRP DOT GOV>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:22:57 -0700
Price, Robert R. wrote:
>
> While the group is talking about the client install process...
>
> I have about 500 ADSM clients of various platforms that I maintain.
> When a new version is released, it is I who must upgrade each client.
> This currently is a client-by-client process and takes weeks.  What
> would be really nice is to put the new client code on the ADSM Server
> and set a switch that would cause each client to download the new client
> and install it automatically during the next incremental backup.
>
> Any thoughts from the group or from IBM on this idea.
>
> Bob Price
>
> Westinghouse I & T Information Systems
> 11 Stanwix Street
> Pittsburgh, PA 15222
>
> Email:   pricerr AT westinghouse DOT com
> Voice:  (412) 642-3634, (WIN) 272-3634
> FAX:      (412) 642-3929, (WIN) 272-3929
>
Great idea Bob.  I asked for this feature approximately two years ago.
Was told then that it would be entered into the requirements database,
where I can only assume it got buried.

Jim White
SRP
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