On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Brian Westerman < [email protected]> wrote:
> I'm actually kind of surprised at the number of sites that don't code the > OSA-ICC consoles as NIP available. They were designed to function in that > manner, and you can then always have remote access (assuming you have a > VPN). If you don't have a VPN set up for your mainframe, you are just > asking for trouble. If you do have one, then not using it to support the > box seems very silly indeed. > We don't have a real VPN here. We used to. But we now use MS Terminal Services Gateway. Basically that means your Windows (Linux & OSX cannot be used) home machine will do a "mstsc" (remote terminal) connection to your work desktop via the Terminal Services Gateway machine. This isolates your home machine from the work LAN entirely. The bad part is that if your work PC is down (say due to a transient power hit), you can't get logged in to the system at all. Somebody needs to go into the office and power up your machine for you. And the office is abandoned starting at 16:59:59.9999 every work day. There is normally nobody here at night or on the weekends. > > Setting up a separate PC (unless your box doesn't support the ICC > consoles) is really not necessary. > Actually, I'm likely in the small minority (perhaps of 1) who really likes having _no_ NIPCONs at all. I actually _prefer_ to IPL via the "System Messages" interface on the HMC. For a console session, I just use SMCS. I wanted to use an OSA-ICC. And I even have an "extra" OSA handy. But the LAN people just didn't want to be bothered to hook it into _their_ LAN. They were running short of ports on the switches. And this place is, uh, "frugal". I.e. they won't buy anything new until something critical is near failing (or actually has failed). They just want _out_ of the "I.T. business" entirely. I would guess that in another 2-3 years, the I.T. department will be the CIO and maybe an assistant to who manage the interaction with the outsourcer. I'm not too sure about local "desktop support". That may remain in house. Or maybe there are companies which do that too. > Brian > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
