On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:02:20AM +0200, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote: > Hi Mark! > Can you sort your dsmadmc output? Can you scroll up and down through your > dsmadmc results? Think not. So I think you can't compare the commandline
I for one can do that easily. My xterm has a large scroll buffer. Together with a small perl script to beautify the q act output and I'm a happy person using the commandline. I only use the (web)gui when I forgot which commands to use for some task... -Marcel > -----Original Message----- > From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 01:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: *Real* admin interface (Was: q vol f=g ??!?) > > > From: Kamp, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What might be another alternative is an MMC (Microsoft Management > > Console).... > > If you'll look *really carefully* at the TSM Management Console for > Windows, you're looking at an MMC. > > All this talk about a "real" admin console leads me to a question: what > is it you want to look at? You want to see how many volumes are > contained in a storage pool? How many scratch tapes are in your library? > How many tape volumes are in pending mode? Sounds to *me* like you need > to be using dsmadmc. > > I haven't found a GUI-based admin interface that can hold a candle to > the reliability, speed, and pinpoint control available of the > command-line admin interface. I can run select statements that give me > *exactly* what I want and in the format I want, I can script rapidly and > easily, I can redirect output to text and pipe it to text processors > like Perl, Python, and even lowly awk and sed. Yes, it takes practice, > and it take some typing skill to do it quickly. And, as a Tivoli rep and > I agreed upon, any kind of realtime monitor would do nothing but drag > down the speed of the TSM server for the sake of generating pretty > pictures for the local PHB. > > -- > Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Berbee Information Networks > Office 262.521.5627 > > > ********************************************************************** > For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. > This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material > intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that > no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and > that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, > and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the > sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart > Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for > the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor > responsible for any delay in receipt. > ********************************************************************** -- ======-------- Marcel J.E. Mol MESA Consulting B.V. =======--------- ph. +31-(0)6-54724868 P.O. Box 112 =======--------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2630 AC Nootdorp __==== www.mesa.nl ---____U_n_i_x______I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t____ The Netherlands ____ They couldn't think of a number, Linux user 1148 -- counter.li.org so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine -- www.ruperthine.com