Howdy, So, where to start... We have a co-located machine we are setting up for DR (CBU). In short, it is a warm site until we declare an official (or test) disaster and "make" it a hot site. Virtual tape system there is grid'ed to one locally, so tape backups are no more than 24 hours old. The restore plan is to populate disk when a disaster is declared. The co-located HMC is accessible locally over its web interface. The SE's are only accessible over the back-end network it shares with its HMC (you'll understand the significance of this later).
In the case of a "live" scenario, we'd hop in our cars and drive the 3 hours to the site to be in front of the hardware to do our recovery. I'm looking for a way to avoid this long trip in the case of testing and maintenance of the co-located environment. For example, each time our local environment changes (ie. disk structure, new version of utility software, etc.), we would like to propagate this change to the co-located machine's environment (reduce configuration when we *really* need to do a disaster recovery - reality or testing). For example, we might change some disk from 3390-9 to 3390-15 to accommodate a new zFS sizing need. Also, as new ICKDSF and/or FDRSAR utilities become available, we'd like to get them to this site without a physical visit. Storing these utilities in a locally and remotely accessible place would be helpful (FTP server). With that said - I have been looking into the "LOAD from Removable Media or Server" option available for remotely using these utilities, but, for lack of documentation, I'm unable to get the environment setup properly. Has anyone had success using an FTP server as a LOAD source? I do have a PMH opened with IBM (15964,004). They are telling me my SEs need to be on the same network as the locally-accessible FTP server (we're not comfortable doing this and were under the impression it was a *bad* thing to do). We are looking for a better explanation, or even a better method to manage these utilities. Thanks for listening. Regards, James Lund Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Home of Johnny Heisman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
