We are a considerably smaller site that Scott's with one ADSM server,
about 400 clients, 3.1TB and 32 million files the last time I looked.
Plans to grow to 2000 clients over the next 18 months.

I am the person responsible for the ADSM server (hardware, tape
library, server OS and ADSM server).  On a good day, ADSM takes around
1 hour of my time per day to look after.  That is mostly checking it
is healthy, answering questions, registering new nodes.

In theory we have two people as my backup.


Daily database backups and offsite tape handling are done by our
operations staff.

Client installation and training is either done by departmental
support staff or by the user directly.  We have someone writing some
user friendly instructions.  I originally wrote some user unfriendly
instructions ;)

For one department I have delegated responsibility to administer their
nodes directly in the ADSM server.  They are planning on around 400
clients and bring more on stream every day.


Russell


> In our company I am the only ADSM admin.  My title is Software Analyst and
> this is only one of the products I support.  The idea being that production
> support would take it over.  Due to the intricate nature of ADSM, that has
> not happened.
>
> We currently have 8 ADSM servers.  They all run on AIX.  I have two 3494
> libraries, one 3570 and two 3575 as well as an optical jukebox.  I store
> around 18 terabytes of information from around 100 clients ranging from AIX
> nodes to NT servers to some Novel servers.  And yes, I do find myself
> stretched a bit thin....
>
> Scott