After a coworker managed to setup ISC and AC (Afre several attempts)
I had a quick look at the interface. I agree with the complaints from
others. Even better, I think an extra hardware requirement should be
added: at least an 21in screen is needed as the ISC contains so many
tabs icons and subwindows there is hardly any room left for the actual
information you are interested in...
I vote for a normal web interface besides of coarse the command line
tool (when will IBM fix dsmadc to use terminal settings defined by
the host, like the unix erase key)!
The big advantage of the webadmin is that I can manage TSM from any
system/workstation (I guess most have a web browser these days).
I hope IBM does not expect me to install ISC/AC on all of these
workstations...

-Marcel

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:45:23PM +0100, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
> 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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