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Re: [Networker] How to configure library using nmc?
2009-11-19 13:25:50
Thierry FAIDHERBE wrote:
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.
Nothing prevents you to use old 7.2.x nwadmin (or even WinAdmin from 6.x)
to monitor what's your server is doing (like nsrwatch in Unix world).
Although it is working quite fine, I strongly advise not using it
for updating config ! :-)
Holy cow, you're right! EUREKA!!!!! Gee, I had no idea I could do that.
And, no, I'm not being sarcastic. Oh, now, the temptation ... the
temptation to just use it to configure something, just a "little"
something just to get back at it for all the frustration it's caused me
and is likely to continue to burden me with until I get past the
learning curve. But, no, I'll resist. I know I must, and as Davina
pointed out, there is power and functionality there. I just need to
humble myself and learn to use it; so I'll use nwadmin only for
monitoring and, of course, to reminisce on the good old days!
Yesterday, I did play around with nsrwatch, and that worked just fine,
but I guess I'd forgotten that nwadmin would also work - and I assume
it's been discussed before and isn't news to most of you - or maybe I
simply never knew that. Regardless, the first thing I did after
installing the server and NMC was to hunt for nwadmin, hoping (like a
ship lost at sea) that maybe, just maybe, it might be there, never mind
the fact that I knew otherwise, and the fact that it doesn't need to be,
even under the old 7.2.x.
Anyway, it's nice to know that I can still use nwadmin. I think I'll
keep it around even after all the clients have been upgraded.
Here's a question, though:
I assume there's no reason that a 7.5 SP1 client couldn't launch the
nwadmin program? I'm running it from a 7.2.x client. How about a client
that's not even running the NW software?
George
Th
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: jeudi 19 novembre 2009 10:24
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to configure library using nmc?
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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