If my understanding is correct, the data returned by "native rest api" will also be from GUI. If that is true, will you fix this "bug" which cause current API not a serious API: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.2.1?topic=issues-gui-is-displaying-outdated-information
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 3:18 AM CHRIS MAESTAS <cdmaes...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Honest feedback is what is needed! There is no intention to remove mm* > commands. There is an intention to solidify the CLI, GUI and REST control > paths into a common framework. This has been known as the Modernization of > Scale (MOS) work and has been in tech-preview since version 5.1.9 last > year. Please feel free to look at: > https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SSUG24ISC-Modernisation-of-Storage-Scale.pdf > for an overview of the direction that is being taken today. There is a > sponsor user group for this tech-preview feature that you are welcome to > join. You can participate in new calls and listen to previously recorded > calls. > > > > --cdm > > > > > > *From: *gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-boun...@gpfsug.org> on behalf of > Wahl, Edward <ew...@osc.edu> > *Date: *Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM > *To: *gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org>, gpfsug > main discussion list <gpfsug-disc...@spectrumscale.org> > *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Native Rest API > > I'm going to be a bit... harsh here. I absolutely hate companies taking > away my CLI's and giving me some half-working REST trash. IBM has already > done this across a Number of different products(sklm,etc) , so I will not > be surprised if it eventually happens here. All the young programming > teams across the globe they employ love this kind of thing. I wish they > would actually ASK the customers instead of that kind of thing, but it *IS* > a thing, and has been happening to more than just IBM products. > > On the plus side, I don't think Scale is QUITE at that point, so we are > probably safe for at least another few versions. They've been pushing the > lackluster GUI quite hard for some time now. Many of us out here actually > have the GUI disabled, or not installed at all, due to all the CVEs, and/or > an inability to move forward for various reasons. For example: There was > no path forward on Power8 without 'rolling your own', and I assume again > soon for our Power 9s. Your Mileage May Vary, of course. > > I shudder to think about attempting to diagnose a cluster boot after a > major datacenter maintenance outage where a timeout caused various "vdisks" > not to get marked active, with REST. Bet that takes much longer than the > CLI. > > Ed Wahl > Ohio Supercomputer Center > > -----Original Message----- > From: gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-boun...@gpfsug.org> On Behalf Of > Jonathan Buzzard > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2024 10:37 AM > To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-disc...@spectrumscale.org> > Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Native Rest API > > > I just had an email from IBM about technology preview of the "Native Rest > API" feature in 5.2.1.0 > > There are at least two interrelated and important questions that are not > answered in the web page about this "Native Rest API" feature IMHO. > > Firstly the page says it "eliminates" the need to administer the Scale > cluster with the mm-command layer. Does that mean the mm-command layer is > going away? Will I in the future going to forced to use some "naff" > GUI layer to administer a GPFS cluster? Frankly I am quite happy using the > mm-command layer thank you very much and would like to keep it that way and > just be able to ignore the GUI. I do appreciate I might be somewhat old > school in that view but never the less I view GUI administration of things > with disdain. > > Secondly at the moment the Rest API requires installing the GUI. Does the > "native" bit of the title mean that requirement is going away and there > will be a Rest API without the need for the additional complexity of the > GUI nodes? Or is the mm-command layer going away and yes you will need the > extra complexity of the GUI because you are going to have to suck up > administering the system with a GUI? > > > JAB. > > -- > Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420 > HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt. > University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org >
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