Not to mention that it's just Too Silly.

The client already reports back to the server what platform it is.
It's not like the client doesn't know, or can't find out, the information
that the server needs to have.

W


>>> 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
>