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From: haral@unisol.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES
Message-ID: <289@unisol.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 08:28:15 GMT
References: <10542@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: haral@unisol.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas)
Organization: UniSolutions Associates, Culver City, CA
Lines: 16
Keywords: tape management, SysAdmin, tape allocator
Summary: A tape allocator is part of the SysAdmin package

In article <10542@brl-adm.ARPA> ARMAND%BCVMS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU writes:
>
>We are in the process of configuring an ULTRIX system on a 11/780.  Several
>problems have presented themselves including an inadequate Operator (OPSER)
>shell, the apparent lack of access control of the tape drives, and the
>unavailability of a chargeback accounting utility.

SysAdmin, the system administration and security software marketed by
UniSolutions, provides both a user-level tape allocator program and a
resource chargeback module (resource chargeback is optional, tape-allocator
included by default).  The tape allocator itself is quite simple, it knows
about a list of devices and allows the user to request a specific tape drive
or any free tape drive.  The tape drive can be released either by the user
or by the operator (who may use the release program from his shell or from
the SysAdmin menu).

--Haral Tsitsivas
  UniSolutions Associates
  (213) 641-6739
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