Derek J. Balling wrote:

> That's decidely not true. The NetScaler 7000 and 12000 units we have 
> both are all equipped with a web/java front-end for both "Dashboard" and 
> "GUI" (which roughly translate as "watch it run" and "configure it").

In my defense, I did say "that I know of".  I guess the people around here 
never bothered to tell me about that feature.

Because of a recent incident where we discovered after-the-fact that we 
needed to employ a feature that is brand-new to us, I did recently check out 
all the latest NetScaler documentation (we recently upgraded from 7x to 8.0, 
although 9.0 and even 9.1 are already out).  I can tell you that the 
documentation has expanded by about 25-50% additional pages, year on year -- 
All because of the web interface stuff where it takes something like six or 
seven clicks and drop-down menus and whatever and they have to show you 
large graphical screen dumps that take up a quarter of the page, to achieve 
what you can do in a single CLI command.

> It doesn't remove your concern about there not being "multiple levels of 
> user access", although it's generally speaking harder to bone the system 
> using the GUI than using the CLI. (no typos to get in your way, etc.)

I'd be afraid that the GUI would make things too easy for people to use, and 
therefore much more likely to bone the system as a result of playing around 
with pointy-clicky things that they don't really understand.

But maybe that's just my view.

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