Re: (PM) PM Console & IRX

Mark E. Mallett (mem@mv.mv.com)
Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:52:42 -0400 (EDT)

>
> There is a lot to be said for simple tools. Amber is not one of them. But
> the command line utilities referenced above are/will be. We will continue
> to pump those out as we see (or are shown) the need. We will (probably)
> never do another curses product, in 4 years I remember 3 people telling me
> they used the old one, and it's not clear that that number would change
> over the next 4.
>
> As I believe we've been doing, we will certainly continue to request and
> consider customer input w/r/t management. As I've pointed out here many
> times, you all know what you need/want to do your daily business. Let us
> know, and we'll do our best to accomodate you.

Personally, I'm not all that interested in a GUI-based configuration
tool. (monitoring, fine.) My configuration is all done by scripts
that I can replay through pmcommand. I only ever use pmconsole to:

a) upgrade the ComOS;

and

b) get some information that isn't as convenient to get via the telnet
interface (e.g. multiport display that includes framing errors).

I look forward to seeing the new command-line tools that were
not mentioned above :-)

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