I haven't thought about it before. Here is my $.02 We have ways to do things today. Webifying them would not provide anything more than I have today. It would be no good as an alternate path to the system because (a) I am using TN3270 to access it today and would have to create a second IP stack for it to give me a different path, (b) if I do that, I can just as easily enable TN3270 on it, and (c) it just introduces one more layer between me and the system, one more possibility for failure (not that you would ever give us code that .... Aw, never mind.) True, we could make things prettier, and that might impress some managers. But I haven't tried to impress them with anything other than my performance in the 40+ years that I have been in the work force.
-----Original Message----- From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Web-based administration for z/VM We have much of our system enabled for web type administration and we've talked about cleaning this up, adding what's missing, and providing it to customers as part of our ESAWEB webserver. This includes administering RACF and DIRMAINT function that we use. Web based administration is the direction we took for ESALPS (Linux Performance Suite) to allow the linux folks to administer linux data performance data collection and look at the data. And we have ongoing projects to enhance this ESALPS web interface. Is there really interest from the VM community in administering their VM system via browser? ESAWEB is very fast, is very easy to implement CGI's, and runs on way over a hundred VM systems today, so this project makes very good sense. But we don't get any requests for this type of application - is that because people don't think about it? If there is interest, we'll do it. Let me know. >Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:57:43 -0800 >From: Ranga Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Is anyone aware of any web-based admin tool for z/VM that allows >all DIRMAINT type operations as well as guest IPL, shutdown etc? >And it is Linux aware? I have heard of Aduva and Levanta but >these do not seem to go far in the z/VM department. Thanks "If you can't measure it, I'm Just NOT interested!"(tm) /************************************************************/ Barton Robinson - CBW Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Velocity Software, Inc Mailing Address: 196-D Castro Street P.O. Box 390640 Mountain View, CA 94041 Mountain View, CA 94039-0640 VM Performance Hotline: 650-964-8867 Fax: 650-964-9012 Web Page: WWW.VELOCITY-SOFTWARE.COM /************************************************************/
