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<p><tt><font size="2">Zach,</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">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 :-)</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">Jamie Davis</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">GPFS Test</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:05:11 -0400<br>
From: Zachary Giles <zgiles@gmail.com><br>
To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org><br>
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Monitoring capacity and health status<br>
for a multitude of GPFS clusters<br>
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Thanks for your replies. I can definitely appreciate the the goal of<br>
improving management of components, and I agree that if GPFS will be using<br>
within other products (which it is and will continue to be), then it would<br>
be great for those products to be able to manage GPFS via an interface.<br>
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My fear with the idea of the above mentioned as a prereq is that the<br>
"improvement" of management might looks like an improvement when you only<br>
have 1 or 2 tiers of storage and 1 or 2 filesets called "database" and<br>
another fileset called "user files", but if you have hundreds or thousands<br>
of filesets and several tiers of storage, with both GSS and non-GSS systems<br>
in the same cluster, then the GUI may actually be more cumbersome than the<br>
original method. So, I just want to voice an opinion that we should<br>
continue to be able to configure / maintain / monitor GPFS in a programatic<br>
/ scriptable non-point-and-click way, if possible.<br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Jamie Davis<br>
GPFS Functional Verification Test (FVT)<br>
jamiedavis@us.ibm.com</font><br>
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