I can't think of a way to directly do what you want. Do you have control at the remote site? My thought (possibly insane) is to put up a PC running Linux which has two ethernet NICs. One the same "back-end network" as the SE. And one on the LAN segment that you're using to get to the HMC. On this Linux box, I'd put up a proxy server. This would be more secure than just putting the SEs on the same segment.
I did a Google search and found this: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2011/02/transparent-caching-ftp-proxy-server.html Or you might want to go with a vendor solution of some sort. I'm sure Cisco would love to help you with this. Hook'em Horns! (no, I'm not a UT alumnus) On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Lund James E <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
