Dear admins,
sorry if the is off-topic, but I don't know how to find StorageWorks
specialists elsewhere.
I would like to know if anybody has a solution for the following problem:
We plan to manage a StorageWorks EMA12000 (4 HSG80s) in a remote location.
We need to get alerted in case of a failure (disk, environment, ...) in the
EMA12000.
How to do this?
Restrictions:
1. We have no permanent network connection to that site, only a telephone
line.
2. We can not set up a SWCC agent on a Unix Server because we won't manage
the servers there, only the storage.
3. We maybe can connect a NT Workstation to the FC-fabric and use the SWCC
NT agent. This is our Management Console.
I can think of an solution, but it looks like overkill:
- Connect the NT Workstation to the fabric to monitor the EMA12000 with SWCC
agent (extra license required to use fabric with NT?)
- Connect a modem to the PC to use SWCC Client to send pager messages
- Connect the FC switches and the PC with an ethernet hub to manage the
switches
- Connect the HSGs serial lines to a terminal server to get generic access
to the HSG consoles
- Connect the terminal server to the hub to have the HSG console in the
network
- connect a router to the hub and the telephone line to have remote access
(modem is locked by SWCC Client)
So we need:
1 PC, 1 hub, 1 router, 1 terminal server, 1 modem.
I suppose you could use Linux and do it all from scratch with scripts, but
that would be the last resort.
Better ideas?
Regards
Peter
Peter Braack
AlphaServer System Administrator
SYCOR AG
Germany
peter.braack_at_sycor.de
Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:45:38 NZST