They should not tied to any single linux distribution. Also, making the
utilities easily "scriptable" is a major plus. Offer plenty of command
line tools w/ options - please don't make graphical interfaces the only
method of interacting with the tools. For event notification, it would be
very nice if there was an option to call an external program (script or
custom C code) and pass command line parameters. (perhaps the fork/exec
is made from a daemon of yours?) This would offer great flexibility for
admins to do whatever they please to notify people and respond to
situations. (we like automation)
At a minimum, it would be nice if the tools supported the common GNU style
command line options of having descriptive names for all features and
short 1 letter keys for most (if not all) of the descriptive options.
example: -w and --width are the same for ls.
ls -w 40
ls --width 40
Long names help reduce learning curve for newbies, and short letters
reduce carpel tunnel for the rest of us.
We wouldn't mind helping AMI beta test in production environments. ;)
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Stephen O'Mohany wrote:
-Hi All,
- The company that I work for, American Megatrend has decided to
-support a linux driver for one of its new products an IDE controller called
-Hyperdisk. You can check it out at www.ami.com <http://www.ami.com> . We
-have created the software raid driver and the next task is to create a set
-of tools (rebuild, notification of raid status) .
- The question is, does anyone have any strong opinions as to what these
-tools should look like or do.
- Steve
