Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 24, 2004 05:18 AM
HMMM.... I'd like to disagree with that one...
I've been using Unix (in various flavours) since 1989 and I've been a System Administrator since 1993. I have used SunOS, Solaris 2, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, ConvexOS, and a few others.
I've been dealing with Large Unix systems for at least half of that time.
Linux is very good at what it does, but it doesn't have the administrative tools that AIX and HP-UX have. That's not to say that it's not catching up.
What I take issue with is the comment that NIM is easy to install and configure. I've spent the last five hours trying to get a server to boot one partition across the network (that partition does not have a CDROM drive, and I can't add one.) NIM seems to be set up fine, but the server refuses to boot. It either gets a file that it claims is in the wrong format, or it can't see the NIM server.
So, while NIM seems to work well for some updates, in this case, it sucks big time.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 24, 2004 05:18 AMI've been using Unix (in various flavours) since 1989 and I've been a System Administrator since 1993. I have used SunOS, Solaris 2, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, ConvexOS, and a few others.
I've been dealing with Large Unix systems for at least half of that time.
Linux is very good at what it does, but it doesn't have the administrative tools that AIX and HP-UX have. That's not to say that it's not catching up.
What I take issue with is the comment that NIM is easy to install and configure. I've spent the last five hours trying to get a server to boot one partition across the network (that partition does not have a CDROM drive, and I can't add one.) NIM seems to be set up fine, but the server refuses to boot. It either gets a file that it claims is in the wrong format, or it can't see the NIM server.
So, while NIM seems to work well for some updates, in this case, it sucks big time.
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