On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Jason Storm wrote:
What tools to do you use to administer and manage your filer(s)? I am not the greatest fan of Filerview and was wondering how good is DataFabric Manager. Any other tools out there?
To give you my 2 cents...
I don't know what you think about when you say "administer and manage", I have some RRDs and DFM to see the volume utilization. The real management is done via rsh/telnet/snmp (in that order) at my side - rsh with some shell features (e.g. loops...) is really nice if you want to perform some operation over a farm of filers. There seem to be a lot of people on the list and at netapp side praising the shit out of DFM but for me dfm is just like filerview in different colors. ;-) I think the tools typical netapp admins use depend on the work they have to do - for example: I never needed to work with quotas or CIFS, maybe DFM/filerview is great with that.