From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: CHUCK_MUNRO@HP-Canada-om1.om.hp.com Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:20:48 -0400 Message-Id: Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] GUI-Frontend (Gnome) available/planned? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="BDY.TXT" To: linux-lvm@msede.com I agree with this suggestion. I have been using HP-UX "SAM" (System Admin Manager) for configuring LVM for several years. This tool has both a GUI and a curses-based terminal interface, which is very helpful when operating from a text terminal or a telnet session. Those readers who have administered HP-UX systems have no doubt seen that this method is very helpful in a non-GUI environment (certainly nicer than using command-line stuff). Two of my Linux servers do not have X11 installed (for security and simplicity), so a text forms-based LVM tool would be most welcome. My 2 cents worth, anyway. ChuckM -----Original Message----- From: heimdall@bellsouth.net [mailto:heimdall@bellsouth.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:06 AM To: linux-lvm@msede.com Cc: heimdall@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: AW: [linux-lvm] GUI-Frontend (Gnome) availiable/planed? There may be some issues with using a web interface like SWAT for LVM. First, you'd need to ensure that the security is rock solid. Unlike SWAT, an LVM web server would actually have the ability to be quite destructive, as oposed to a denial of service. Also, if you were to create a web based LVM GUI, you'd want to take advantage of graphics to represent your PVs, VGs, LVs, which might preclude using Lynx. While the LVM commands might be a bit obscure to the average user, would a forms menu be much less obsure without some graphical representation of what you're really doing? This isn't to say a forms based menu wouldn't be useful, but rather that it may not be what's needed to introduce people to the concept of an LVM.