On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:17, Jason Herne wrote: > We are working on a Graphical management Console for z/VM so that an > administrator can manage many day to day aspects of a z/VM instance from > a graphical user interface and not have to use a command line. One of > the tasks we wish to support is creation/deletion/modification of guests > (i.e. their directory entries).
Have you looked at UTexas ARL's Ganymede project? It's got some good stuff as a starting point. > We're torn between using the System Managment API's which will (as far > as I understand from what I've seen on the list so far) allow us to > support people who use Dirmaint as well as any other comercial z/VM > directory manager without any special configuration needed?? Or to just > do the directory modification by hand and NOT use SMAPI or a directory > manager. The problem here is, if we decide to use SMAPI, won't we be > cutting out support for people who do not use a directory manager?? > And, if we DONT use SMAPI, do we also lose supporting people who DO use > a directory manager? I think you're better off using SMAPI. Writing your own directory manager requires a fair amount of understanding of the CMS environment, and you'll also need line-mode and panel interfaces from the CMS side as well as the GUI to keep the management process from getting out of sync if you need to do management from both sides (and you will... there are things that are far easier to do from CMS, but no system can serve two masters -- you'll need a CMS client if you write your own directory manager).
