RE: Remote Management

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Pinch me.  Are you serious?  You can load/apply cume PTFs on one system and
use management central to distribute those across all the others?

Whoa.

Well, we do have the current problem of having three different releases
running on our RISC boxes, including four boxes running V3R7.  Another problem
with upgrading three of these V3R7 boxes is that we likely will drop down in
the tier (processing group) when we eventually replace these machines.  So
we're not apt to spend the big dollars for a V5 upgrade for a tier P30 when we
may likely drop to P20 or possibly even P10.  Are the price differences
significant enough to warrant waiting to see what hardware we eventually end
up getting?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
What version of OS/400 will you be running ??

I can think of no better solution to this than management central using CA
Express.  Provided you have the same LPP's etc. across your systems, you
will only need to load them on one system, and then distribute them
automagically, and have your systems IPL each night to apply them.  This
works, and works well.  Really well.

Dwayne Lindner
Senior Network Analyst
Wesfarmers Rural Information Technology
184 Railway Parade, Bassendean WA 6054
Ph: (08) 9273 5365    Mob: 0407 386 693
Email: dwayne.lindner@writ.wesfarmers.com.au


> -----Original Message-----
> From: D.BALE@handleman.com [mailto:D.BALE@handleman.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2001 23:38
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Remote Management

> Yes, anything in "multitples" brings a whole 'nuther aspect to remote
> management.  I'd have to have someone on site whose only
> responsibility would
> be to change CD's.  QUESTION: Can I ask IBM to provide the
> cume PTF package on
> 3590 cartridges?  Hopefully, it would all fit on one 10GB
> cartridge, but even
> if it didn't, I've got a 10-slot magazine in one of my branches.
>
> It's been several years since I've done cume PTF's; can the
> loading of all the
> CD's be done while the system is still in use?  The idea
> behind that is to
> have someone local start loading the CD's so that
> everything's loaded before
> they leave for the day.  After the branch ceases operations
> for the day, do
> the backups, and apply the cume.  Is that possible?
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