This would be a good feature.
Keep in mind that asadmin may not be executed on the system that is
running the server. We may need to introduce a "root" role so that
user can have the permission to install commands on the server side.
Jane
Lloyd Chambers wrote:
> It would be a nice touch.
>
> But what is the likelihood of using a command for something that is
> not installed on the server (perhaps intentionally)...isn't that
> putting the cart before the horse?
>
> Lloyd
>
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>
>> Soliciting inputs from all of you regarding this interesting
>> problem I am seeing with modular nature of the server.
>>
>> The inspiration is drawn from Ubuntu. On my Ubuntu machine, when I
>> say "svn", it says:
>>
>> The program 'svn' is currently not installed. You can install it by
>> typing:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install *subversion*
>>
>> Thus, it knows the "intent" of the user and helps him/her to get there.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be nice to have something similar for asadmin especially
>> since we are in a diverse environments of distributions like web
>> profile,
>> full Java EE 6 profile, cluster-aware installation/domain,
>> or just a domain that's missing certain "capabilities" that might be
>> available in update center? e.g. you do
>>
>> asadmin migrate-timers ... on a domain/installation that has no
>> EJB support and it comes back and says:
>>
>> EJB support is currently not installed. You can install it by typing
>> pkg install glassfish-v3-ejb (or whatever that is).
>>
>> I am tempted to add this as a requirement in CLI spec. What are your
>> thoughts? If we decide to do this, we need a lot of co-ordination across
>> teams to do this.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kedar
>>
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