Re: Intermittent FTP Failures -- MIDRANGE-L

Mitch,

Ops Nav/Mgt Central is certainly a piece of work. Have you raised this as a
problem with IBM?

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Davidson" <davidson_l@popmail.firn.edu>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: Intermittent FTP Failures


> I haven't *intentionally* enabled SSL, in fact I've tried to very
> carefully avoid going there. (I did try to read all the documentation I
> could find concerning SSL within the Management Central Server.  There's
> PTFs specific to that scenario, I saw them when I waded through the
> README with the Client Access Express servicepack SI02795;  it looked
> like more than I was ready to attack at that time, and couldn't ever
> find a good solid recommendation to do it.  Since it seemed to be
> optional, I opted not to do it.)  This all seemed to be aggravated by
> the V5R1 upgrade, which also necessitated a rebuild of my Operations
> Navigator and most of the Management Central piece got replaced.  The
> new kid on the block was the "Extreme Service Personalized" method and
> getting the latest & greatest Universal Connection Wizard.  It truly
> would not surprise me to find that one of the connected pieces there is
> the culprit;  LOTS of fine print in the associated doc for that and the
> ink seemed to be still wet.  One place for sure said that a requirement
> was 5722-JV1 with options 3, 4 or 5 installed;  not knowing any better,
> I just installed option 5.  When I tested the connection, I got an error
> message that said "Option 3 was missing".  Well, gee!  What a &*$$#@!
> surprise!
>
> In the back of my mind, I am getting this nagging feeling that maybe it
> isn't so optional after all, maybe one of the miscellaneous and fleeting
> TCP/TFTP/TMFTP under-the-covers inter-server messages/tasks is trying to
> deliver something and assumes SSL is available?  (That'd be a bug;  I
> know it is truly bugging our shop.)
>
> The client in question is TCPIP4VSE from Connectivity Systems, Inc.
> running on our VSE system.  We FTP 20-30 files from that platform on a
> nightly basis, and a couple of times a month (it's turning out to be
> more like a week with V5R1) the FTP job stops-- usually after it is well
> into the transmission.
>
>
> Message: 6
> From: "Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@patownsend.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Subject: Re: Intermittent FTP Failures
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:19:08 -0700
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> Mitch,
>
> >From the SSL.H header file:
>
>    SSL_ERROR_SSL_NOT_AVAILABLE     -93
>
> In V5R1 you have SSL available for FTP server connections. V5R2 has it
> for
> client connections. In order for the server to do SSL you have to enable
> it
> in OpsNav. My guess is that some client is trying to do an SSL FTP
> session
> but your V5R1 system is not configured for it. Or perhaps a bug?
>
> Patrick
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