Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > > So I'm confused here. You've made some claims, which is that legato > needed this kind of package. I'll take that for granted. But what I > don't understand is *why*. > This was many years ago but...
With Legato (and NetBackup I beleive,) I remember running one command (sgscan maybe?) not often, but as a regular part of a Backup server setup. That was the command that from the command line performed the same function as 'probe-scsi-all' does from OBP. it was useful for determining which SCSI id's you needed to configure the tool to use for the library. You ran it, more than once usually. You verified the devices seen were what you expected, you took notes on device ID's, then ran the install tool for the package and entered in the info you had taken down. I had been looking for this type of functionality in solaris for years before, and I did end up using the tool that vame with the backup packages for my own purposes once i knew they were there. These packages also had library control utilities to script library operations which I had also looked for in the past when considering scripting my own backups myself, but I didn't need that as much once I bought these packages. Other than scanning the the bus to report what devices were present and where though, I can't remember wanting for any other SCSI tools I didn't already have. That's not to say that I wouldn't love what some of these other tools do. I 'm probably just not up to speed on what a tool could let me do. > Again, I'm just trying to understand the utility here to end users that > justifies integrating this as a first class package (with RBAC and such) > into Solaris. Why do ordinary end-users need this stuff? (Or even > ordinary developers. I don't include developers for storage products > because their needs are special, and I *suspect* they fall outside the > target audience that the "familiarity" justification was intended for.) > As someone said though, I always knew and understood that I'd need to be root (or have equivalent privs today - that was pre-RBAC if I recall correctly.) to run such a tool. -Kyle > -- Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org >
