SUMMARY: Managing Remote StorageWorks Installation
> Dear admins,
>
> thanks to
> Roetman, Paul [PRoetman_at_CSXLines.com]
> Dennis Breeden [D.Breeden_at_wcom.com]
> rich [raf_at_ezunx.com]
> William H. Magill [magill_at_isc.upenn.edu]
> alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
>
> who all gave valuable input to my problem.
> William H. Magill pointed to a new Compaq product, SANworks management
> appliance
> (http://www.compaq.com/products/sanworks/sanmgt/marm.html).
> I'm going to give that product a close look. This will replace the NT
> Workstation and the SWCC, but it seems that we are going to need the other
> equipment.
>
> Thanks again
> Peter
> Peter Braack
> AlphaServer System Administrator
> SYCOR AG
> Germany
> peter.braack_at_sycor.de
>
>
> my original message:
>
> 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
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 31 2000 - 06:39:14 NZST
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