Re: [ADSM-L] Lost in TSM licensing
2007-06-27 14:14:01
>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:19:44 +0100, Matthew Warren <Matthew_WARREN AT
>> BNPPARIBAS DOT COM> said:
> Hmm, there is always a scheduled TSM command that send's it's output to a
> file you have rights to look at later?
> On occaision for small adhoc tasks I have used the TSM scheduler to
> initiate a command on a client, when I've needed to do the same thing
> across a lot of nodes.
> as TSM administrator, you could send the output to a file, let tsm back it
> up, and then restore it elsewhere to get at it, if you really really had
> to!
This is true. I prefer to strongly de-emphasize the extent to which
I've root-kitted all my clients boxes. Going behind the admin's back
to do some administrative operation you dreamed up doesn't endear one.
I once used TSM to get myself an Xterm on a box for which the root
password had been lost. Even when I was coming to aid in an
emergency, the looks were ... thoughtful.
If this were an IBM-supplied, IBM-approved analysis tool, then it
would at least not be 4000 admins cobbling together 4000 different
ways to extract the information and inflicting them on an unawares
population.
- Allen S. Rout
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