George Sinclair wrote:

> That's good! For a moment there I thought I'd just wasted a lot of time
> and would now have to uninstall and reinstall on the snode.

A lot of time? Hardly! Installing NMC takes a couple of minutes, and you
could install it on multiple servers if you wanted anyway.

> Right. I just installed it, so I figured out that I had to create a new
> snode. What confused me initially, though, is that it lists the primary
> server as an snode. Of course, it has to have the snode software on it,
> too, but I just found that confusing.

A NetWorker server is always a storage node.

> I find this NMC interface very similar to the Windows admin. tool under
> the old 7.2.x. There were some nice things about that when compared with
> nwadmin under Unix, but over all, I preferred the Unix interface. This
> new interface almost seems like a marriage between the two, but I still
> miss nwadmin. Seemed so much simpler and more straight forward.

I miss it too. However I have begrudgingly come to appreciate the power
and increased functionality that the NMC offers. It has some quirks, and
still a fairly large number of bugs, but it's here to stay so we'd all
better get used to it.

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