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Ask Slashdot: Best Management Interface On an IT Appliance?

Posted by timothy on from the one-you-never-need dept.

tippen writes "The management user interface on most networking and storage appliances are, shall we say, not up to the snuff compared to modern websites or consumer products. What are the best examples of good UX design on an IT appliance that you've managed? What was it that made you love it? What should companies (or designers) developing new products look to as best-in-class that they should be striving for?"

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  1. Re:And the answer is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would agree. The best appliances have good CLIs and REST interfaces. Otherwise they are just a mess of crap. Have you ever seen a SAN interface? Or Vmware? Or Microsoft System Center? (if anyone can figure out what the hell is going on in that interface I would love to know.)

    The best of the crappy interfaces is probably something like Qnap, they have great IOS interfaces, and the regular web interface is decent.