Well, I just hope this is the worst screw-up in 5.3; at least this
provides something I don't use and can avoid installing. My 'desktop' is
really a laptop, runing Win2K on 768 MB; this won't change until the
lease expires about this time next year.

I don't have any AIX systems with graphic cards installed, so I'd need
to run the admin center on a remote X display -- and if this is another
crappy Java app that won't let me re-size windows or fonts I can't use
it this way. And there needs to be a way to symlink the temporary
install files to a throw-away directory -- /tmp is NOT going to be 750
MB on any of my systems. . .

Overall, it sounds like the Administrative Center is a non-starter.

Thanks for the reports, people!

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:45 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: ISC on WinXP or Unix

Hi Guys!
I have been beta testing 5.3 for IBM and I too have tried convincing IBM
that they are definitely not on the right track with the Admin Center.
I haven't received a response from them on my comments, so I'm afraid
they
will ignore our objections...
Especially resellers should be worried. You will never be able to
convince
small customers that one has to invest in a Windows workstation with a
high
performance processor and at least 1 Gb. (!!!!) of memory, just to run
an
administrative interface!!
So my plea to IBM too: Please give us back the WebAdmin!!!!!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard van Denzel [mailto:RvanDenzel AT SLTN DOT NL]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 13:10
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: ISC on WinXP or Unix


Adrie,

I totally agree with you. I've also test installed it (or at least I
tried) it on WXP, Linux (FC3) and AIX 5.2. The only installing which
succeeded was the AIX (it only took 3 hours to install the ISC and AC).
It is also very annoying to have a /tmp of 750MB+, just for the sake of
the installation.

Lets hope IBM brings back the Webinterface asap, because I did not see
advantages of the ISC yet.
When I test created a diskpool volume of 5GB on my Linux TSM 5.3 server
it
failed at almost 5GB with no apperent reason. When I did it manually
(long
live dsmadmc) it went just fine.

Richard.





Adrie van Tuyl <vantuyl AT XS4ALL DOT NL>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
07-01-2005 12:05
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        cc:
        Subject:        Re: ISC on WinXP or Unix


At 20:24 1/6/2005, you wrote:
>On Thursday 06 January 2005 13:14, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote:
> > ..I'm glad to hear. I use a suite of python scripts that ive put
> > together / migrated from other shells over the last 5 years or more.
I
> > would be frustrated  if dsmadmc dissappeared...
> >
> > Is this a possibility for future release?
>I don't know and I hope not.  I think 99.9% of the TSM customers use
dsmadmc
>in some sort of scripting language to automate/monitor TSM.  I don't
think
>IBM can risk to loose 99.9% of it's TSM customers.
>
>Stef

This seems they do not care.
Probably 90 % or more (maybe even 99.9%) of the customers did use the
Webinterface of the TSM server.
Many of the customers (>80%?) do not have an ISC.
So these customers are forced into setting up an ISC, preferably on
other
hardware than on the TSM server because of the resource utilization of
the
ISC. IMHO this does not make any sence at all.

I tried to set up an ISC in a test environment. I tried a PII 400 with
384
MB. On this machine TSM 5.2.3.5 works perfectly for testing purposes.
I did not manage to install the ISC with the TSM admin (after an 8 hours
of
trying), and for now I don't want to put any effort in it because I
don't
have the equipment nor the time.

For the people who managed to get ISC working; is it worth it? Is the
TSM
admin dramatically improved? Have all the wishes which we see come by in
this group come true?

I sincerely hope we get our webinterface back.

Adrie


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