The great thing about SMIT is that it reports the line-mode commands which it uses. (This goes back a way. I can only hope that it still does.) So you can script repeat operations easily and yet flatten the learning curve by having a full-fledged graphical tool at the start.
In SuSE land, YaST does have LVM support. I have not personally used it. (YaST and SMIT are both meaningful acronyms, which I find entertaining.) The team I work with has used LVM2 for some time and drives it exclusively via line-mode commands, not via YaST. We use line-mode commands for LVM manglement on both SuSE and RH. I investigated EVMS when we started doing SAN. I found that I could not readily break out of the graphical interface, which frustrated automation. More significant to us was that EVMS seemed to insist on spanning the two levels we needed to isolate: coalescing multiple paths for individual physical volumes and then layering of PV to VG to LV which is handled nicely by LVM. -- Rick; <>< On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:27 AM, bob molerio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a LINUX newbie but an AIX oldie: > > This may be off topic but I was wondering if anyone knew of a good sysadmin > tool like AIX's SMIT for LINUX RHEL? The tools out there for LINUX don't seem > to address logical volume management (LVM) the way SMIT does. > > > Thank you, Bob Molerio > may the 'Z' be with you > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
