Hi Zoltan - it's true that adding ISC users can be tricky. To help with this, our welcome page in the Administration Center describes the procedure for adding an ISC user who can manage TSM. (Click Getting Started in the list of work items on the left and then scroll down to the bottom of the page.) The instructions refer to a "Settings tab", which has been replaced with a "Console Settings" work item in the current version of ISC. Other than that, the instructions should be accurate.
To add an ISC user who can manage both TSM and the ISC itself, you would follow the same procedure, but add the user to the "iscadmins" group instead of the "TSM_AdminCenter" group. ----- Message from Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:15:03 -0500 ----- Subject: Re: 5.3 - - Likes/dislikes This has been discussed, numerous times. Most folks hate the ISC, including myself. I and two other "engineers" spent hours just trying to figure out how to add an admin-level ISC id. We gave up. If we can't figure it out, how on earth would our operations folks figure it out, when they had issues with something as simple as the web-interface. It would have taken way too many hours/days (which I don't have) for us systems-level folks to learn it, much less teach our computer operators about it. With the old web-interface, I could walk folks through most operations, in my head, over the phone. As you have discovered, it is not intuitively obvious/easy to use. There may be some nuggets of improvement, but the high learning curve isn't worth it, IMHO ! Also, the lack of responsiveness is another issue (try using it over dial-up). As an alternative, we went with TSMManager (www.tsmmanager.com) for it's simplicity, ease-of-use and fairly low cost. Now, we can't live without it. I start it up, first thing in the morning, and stay in it all day long. Julius Martinez IBM Software Group, Tivoli Storage (520) 799-5472 (tie line 321-5472) Tucson, Arizona
