Re: NetAps vs EMC

[John Miller <miller@lclark.edu>]

As for the console, at Metro, we have a serial line between the filer and
our main unix box (no general logins allowed there) so you can 'tip' to
it... use for booting since you see even the lower level console boot
messages.

You can telnet in or use rsh to execute single filer commands such as
'quota resize' after editing one of the config files.  (The filer closes
telnet when going down...)

Since there is really only ONE console that any of these modes sees/uses,
I don't see how we could get locked out as per the scenario that Brad
Knowles described.  I bet there is even a way to reset the telnet
session w/o rebooting.  Advice: don't let everybody have the password!

John Miller
http://www.lclark.edu/~miller

Brad Knowles writes:
[...]
> 	My problem with NetApp has always been that the management 
> interface was very minimal, and only one person can log in at a time. 
> If someone logs on and then shuts down their terminal program without 
> logging out, no one else can log in until the box is rebooted.