This is the situation We are replacing our zBC12 with a Z14 ZR1 which is DR machine. It will connect to the same SAN as the zBC12 and we want to run the same LPAR configuration and of course the same IOCDS.
Our support folks are trying to do the work remotely(externally) and are getting stuck in complex firewall rules. In particular they can reach the HMC of the zBC12 but when they try to get to the Support Element on the Z14 and try SOO (Single Object Operations) they can't connect. Firewall rules are complex of course but my questions is, why can't the support folks do all the work they need to do actually in front of the Z14 and access the HMC and SE locally? Once that work is done the machine can be IPL'ed remotely and work could continue on fixing resolving the firewall rules. We are trying to meet a deadline where we can IPL the Z14 off the existing SAN, start up some workload and perform some acceptance testing. But it seems I've been advised that the resolution of the firewall rules is on the critical path whereas I think configuring the Z14 (LPARs IOCDS etc.) cloned from the zBC12 could be done locally and that would get us a machine we could IPL. The support folks are in the city and have already visited the data centre and proven they can access the HMC and SE locally. Any thoughts from the group on this parallel approach. I have no idea how often the SE needs to be accessed but this is a fairly static environment so I would think not that often. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
