Re: Desperately seeking Remote Console Solution

Nlynx has a product that allows for a twinax session in a PC to be accessed via
their ES/TCP product.  Given your access to the local LAN via RAS or VPN you
can then manage the AS400 console as though you were on-site.  In terms of
capacity keep in mind that one PC can support up to four twinax cards and thus
one PC could support four consoles (one for each twinax card plus up to six
more local sessions).

Jerry Draper

PS  I sell, support, use, and recommend Nlynx products and have been since 1984
when they were SSI, then Emerald, then Andrew, and now Nlynx.


Quoting Sanjivji <sanjivji@xxxxxxxxx>:

> We have couple of  Model 840 Systems with 15 LPARS each which are
> running Lan Console . We also have 35 Model 170 On which we are
> running Twinax as a console. hence we have approx 15+15+35 = 65
> consoles
> 
> We are in the Process of Upgrading the 840 to 570 and model 170 to
> 270's. We are looking for a remote console solution ( preferably IP
> based ) as all these systems are more than 100 miles from us
> 
> I guess on the Model 570 we have to use HMC for consoles . Is that
> Right or Can I have some alternate Console solution like Twinax ?
> 
> For the Model 270 we are Looking for Twindata solution or Visara
> Solution. In case of Twindata we would need to buy a separate box for
> each LPAR..hence for 35 model 270 we would have 35 separate hardware
> boxes. The visara console solution is a Linux box with 20 Twinax ports
> hence only 2 Linux hardware boxes would be required.
> 
> Twindata is approx $900 per lPAR and I Guess Visara would be approx in
> range of $20K
> 
> Is there a cheaper and better soln than twindata or Visara for so many
> LPARS which can be accessed remotely ?
> 
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