Thanks Jamie. I appreciate the input. Glad to hear it. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:23 AM, James Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Zach, > > Not sure if I'm formatting this message properly (need to switch off of > digest mode), but I know of no plans to replace the GPFS command line > interface with a GUI. With the GPFS GUI, TPC monitoring, etc., we want to > enable a wider variety of users to effectively use and manage GPFS, but the > command line will of course remain available for power users, > script-writers, etc. I certainly don't intend to throw away any of my nice > mm-themed test programs :-) > > Jamie Davis > GPFS Test > > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:05:11 -0400 > From: Zachary Giles <[email protected]> > To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Monitoring capacity and health status > for a multitude of GPFS clusters > Message-ID: > <CAMYZk=eaQpwRcW6RM7WK9x4v8wO=o=GmZPrjCCq=dka9k7h...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Thanks for your replies. I can definitely appreciate the the goal of > improving management of components, and I agree that if GPFS will be using > within other products (which it is and will continue to be), then it would > be great for those products to be able to manage GPFS via an interface. > > My fear with the idea of the above mentioned as a prereq is that the > "improvement" of management might looks like an improvement when you only > have 1 or 2 tiers of storage and 1 or 2 filesets called "database" and > another fileset called "user files", but if you have hundreds or thousands > of filesets and several tiers of storage, with both GSS and non-GSS systems > in the same cluster, then the GUI may actually be more cumbersome than the > original method. So, I just want to voice an opinion that we should > continue to be able to configure / maintain / monitor GPFS in a programatic > / scriptable non-point-and-click way, if possible. > > > Jamie Davis > GPFS Functional Verification Test (FVT) > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > > -- Zach Giles [email protected]
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