Monday, April 2, 2007
X Windows GUI Gone!
I was performing a DR recently and while trying to do a large HP/UX system restore found that the TSM X-Windows GUI was not in the client directory. Upon further investigation it turns out that Tivoli has switched to a complete Java GUI. While this works fine the problem is with Java. During the DR test I was allowed to install java but on the production systems the customer does not want Java installed. So with no X-Windows client and the inability to use java the command line is the only option. Now this is fine when restoring individual files, filesystems, and so forth, but I found restoring a VERY large server with 20+ filesystems is a whole lot easier and faster with the GUI. So the lack of an X-Windows client could be an issue if like many companies you don't install java on your UNIX servers.
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So let me get this straight. The dsm command line to open an X-Window session is gone? Is this true? We are currently upgrading to TSM v5.5 but our operators use a documented process that requires the use of the X-Window client. This will now slow down the adoption of the newest TSM client. In addition, we have scripts that are designed to walk an operator through a restore but now without the X-Windows client it looks like we'll need to figure something else out. It's the little things like this that are extremely aggravating with TSM (and IBM for that matter).
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