Re: Admin Servers

["Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respectfully: Incorrect, or at least partly so, answer.

On a single sever with one partition, certainly incorrect, as you lose 
all visibility to peformance, graphing, and any administration functions 
that it provides. If you are more than 65 years old this might be OK 
mostly, but for younger admins losing the GUI is generally not a good 
thing. Some will argue that 'I can do everything needed on a green 
screen,' and much you can, it's just harder and you get to see a teeny 
window not a huge ass window into your system.

For example, can you look at a joblog for a running job in the green 
screen? Sure. Can you search it? No.

Can you display spooled files as a PDF in the green screen? No.

Can you subset active jobs with just a few keystrokes on the green 
screen? No.

Can you do ANY performance investigation whatever on the green screen? No.

And certainly the list simply goes on and on and on.

Now, if you have multiple partitions and/or servers then the admin 
servers need only be running on one system, as you can manage many 
systems from the admin servers running on one system in your data 
center. The actual management of the target server is done through the 
host servers not through the admin server.

 - DrF

On 12/23/2021 1:51 PM, Brad Stone wrote:
> No.
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> > Is there any reason to have the Admin HTTP server(s) running all the time?
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