Liking SAM or not (you don't have to use it...), the concept has one
obvious advantage for novice HP9000 system administrators: You don't have
to remember much else but the command "sam". You are then - more or less -
guided through many administration tasks via menus such as restoring files
from backups, adding / removing users, enabling / disabling network
services etc.  There is a similar utility on IBM's rs/6000 (I hope I don't
get flamed for this one...)
 
This could be a good thing too on the HP3000, a single point of entry for
more  (or less) novice users to do system administration tasks. But do
keep the command line interface as well for expert users!! I.e. provide
tools which matches users skills.
 
 
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On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, Eero Laurila wrote:
 
> Tuukka Kirveskoski ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> : Just a curious question to the CSY people:
> : any plans to provide SAM (like on hp-ux)
> : for HP3000 ?
>
> Clearly I'm not a unix guru - however, after all the bad I've heard about
> SAM I though it was one of the most disliked utilities on unix...  maybe not.
> What specifically is it that SAM has that you'd like to see on hp3000?
> User management? instead of MPE's command line stuff?
>
> Thanks for clarification,
> Eero Laurila - HP CSY Networking lab, NS services.
>