
122 Understanding the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family
Figure 3-26 SAN File System GUI browser interface
The Administrative Agent implements all of the management logic for the GUI,
CLI, and CIM interfaces, as well as performing administrative
authorization/authentication against the LDAP server. The Administrative Agent
processes all management requests initiated by an administrator from the SAN
File System console, as well as requests initiated from the SAN File System
administrative CLI, which is called tanktool. The Agent communicates with the
Metadata server, the operating system, the Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSAII)
card in the eng ...