From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Jolliff >I and others have been complaining about that horrible >IBM/Tivoli web site >for years, and I haven't seen IBM budge on something that >simple, so why >do any of us expect them to react to making changes in the product?
We've all heard people bitch about the profound changes in the Tivoli and IBM web sites in the last 18 months, and how horrible they are now. Try wandering around the Veritas and Legato sites for awhile; you can't even download Legato documentation unless you're a current, registered user of their products. Personally, aside from the irritation of having to redefine some bookmarks, the IBM site actually makes more sense now. Compare: finding device drivers for IBM xSeries servers vs. finding device drivers for Gateway and Dell servers. (I used to ridicule the HP site as well--used to be damned hard to find printer drivers--but they got better.) >How 5.3 could be released with the GUI interface on a windows only >platform is beyond me. >The GUI was useful for training newbies and what not and it did make >policy and management class updates a bit easier, but I sure >wouldn't use it for production work. Read your documentation again. You can run the ISC and TSM Administration Console on AIX as well. And you'll eventually use the same copy of ISC to administer Tivoli SAN Manager, Tivoli Storage Resource Manager, IBM SAN Volume Controller, the entire Tivoli Framework suite, and so on. Yeah, yeah, yeah--the ISC is slow and kludgy, and an outright resource hog, but then I always thought the "old" TSM web interface wasn't any more desirable. I rarely use it, myself, and I don't teach it either. "Yo ho! Yo ho! It's the command line for me!" (with apologies to Captain Jack Sparrow) -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office 262.521.5627
