Gergana, Yes, using Admin Center version 6.1.0.
Jim Schneider -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gergana V Markova Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 3:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Who is using Admin Center ? >> Specifics, please re: AC improvements Jim, re: collocation, are you referring to default options we use for the COLLOCATE parameter in the Create Storage Pool Wizard for sequential pools? ( For command DEFINE STGPOOL) Thanks. Regards/Pozdravi, Gergana | | ~\\ ! //~ | | ( ( 'o . o' ) ) Imagination can change the equation . . . | | ( w ) | | Gergana V Markova gmark...@us.ibm.com (+1 US) 520 799 5716 T/L 321-5716 | | Staff Software Engineer - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server Development | | | | IBM Centers for Advanced Studies http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cas | | IBM Women Inventors Community http://w3.webahead.ibm.com/w3ki/display/womeninventors/Home | | IBM Emerging Technologies http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/ | | IBM DeveloperWorks http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ | | IBM Women In Action http://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki2/display/AoTWIT/3.+Women+Speaker+Series+2009 From: "Schneider, Jim" <jschnei...@ussco.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/06/2009 01:41 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Who is using Admin Center ? >> Specifics, please re: AC improvements I use the Admin Center to register nodes, create schedules, storage devices, storage pools, and inclexcl options. In general, functions that require a lot of command line parms. Storage pool creation is the only part that's really annoying. We do not use collocation, but it's the default option when using the AC. I have to remember to use a command line update every time to turn it off. Regards, Jim Schneider -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Francisco Molero Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Who is using Admin Center ? >> Specifics, please re: AC improvements Hi Gergana, You only need to read the people opinions, most of the TSM Administrators are using the TSM Command line. The old TSM Web interface was not a 100 % useful but at least it was very quickly and most of the TSM Administrators used it. Nowadays if you try to show TSM to new Customers, the first impression is not good it is very complex and AC is unbearable. Maybe TSM is very complex and I think TSM developers should simplify it. One example is FastBack there are not options for FB Client, and TSM has more than 100. In summary, AC should be more useful and it should remove a lot of options ( most of the people are using only the Default options). Include/Exclude should be more simple and after install TSM AC customer should be able to do a backup in five minutes. Restore without connect to the Client machine y a GUI env. Etc... We can to ask for Admin people, what do they change in AC ?? because the reality is clear, nobody uses AC. Regards, Fran ----- Mensaje original ---- De: Gergana V Markova <gmark...@us.ibm.com> Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Enviado: vie,6 noviembre, 2009 20:20 Asunto: Re: Who is using Admin Center ? >> Specifics, please re: AC improvements Francisco, can you be more specific and provided constructive suggestions of what is not working for you, and what specific improvements/ task addition can benefit the daily work of a TSM administrator in the Administration Center GUI? Comparing the AC 6.1 with XIV, I assume you were impressed with the simplicity of the interface. Admin Center supports TSM, which is rather complex -- anything specific you see to adopt from XIV that fits the Admin Center context? Thanks in advance for your feedback. Regards/Pozdravi, Gergana | | ~\\ ! //~ | | ( ( 'o . o' ) ) Imagination can change the equation . . . | | ( w ) | | Gergana V Markova gmark...@us.ibm.com (+1 US) 520 799 5716 T/L 321-5716 | | Staff Software Engineer - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server Development | | | | IBM Centers for Advanced Studies http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cas | | IBM Women Inventors Community http://w3.webahead.ibm.com/w3ki/display/womeninventors/Home | | IBM Emerging Technologies http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/ | | IBM DeveloperWorks http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ | | IBM Women In Action http://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki2/display/AoTWIT/3.+Women+Speaker+Series+2009 From: Francisco Molero <fmol...@yahoo.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/06/2009 03:44 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] Who is using Admin Center ? Hello, Yesterady I was working with new TSM AC 6.1. and I was getting several errors from Admin Center 6.1. Twice I got to restart the TSM server/ac Machine becuase TSM AC hanged. I suffered the TSM AC 5.3.. But several years late. In my opinion, the TSM AC look & feel is not so good, it is too complicate to use for new and even for experienced users. I think TSM Manager and others software is an alternative for experimented users but the first impression for the new users is to drive off TSM. Until now TSM users don't claim enought about AC.. I would like to know how many TSM administrators are using the AC, and how many people are using only AC without TSM Admin command line ( dsmadmc or dsmadmc -console). This will be an example if the TSM AC GUI is good or people only uses AC for two o three admin tasks. IBM should solve this problem now and IBM should improve the TSM GUI. One example is the XIV Gui. I also think, IBM should simplify TSM too much, each day other SW are doing the Backup tasks in a simple way and TSM needs a lot of configurations. Regards, Fran
