From: Kamp, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What might be another alternative is an MMC (Microsoft Management > Console)....
If you'll look *really carefully* at the TSM Management Console for Windows, you're looking at an MMC. All this talk about a "real" admin console leads me to a question: what is it you want to look at? You want to see how many volumes are contained in a storage pool? How many scratch tapes are in your library? How many tape volumes are in pending mode? Sounds to *me* like you need to be using dsmadmc. I haven't found a GUI-based admin interface that can hold a candle to the reliability, speed, and pinpoint control available of the command-line admin interface. I can run select statements that give me *exactly* what I want and in the format I want, I can script rapidly and easily, I can redirect output to text and pipe it to text processors like Perl, Python, and even lowly awk and sed. Yes, it takes practice, and it take some typing skill to do it quickly. And, as a Tivoli rep and I agreed upon, any kind of realtime monitor would do nothing but drag down the speed of the TSM server for the sake of generating pretty pictures for the local PHB. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
