RE: Fix Central cume to image catalog

Admittedly firewalls can play havoc with the NFS plan.

Ordinarily we use it on one system that has multiple partitions and just use
the backplane VLAN. Now no firewall has anything to say about it. Except
of course the packet filter IBM i if it's configured.


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Subject: RE: Fix Central cume to image catalog

Our network is highly segmented via firewalls (Internal, extranets, PCI
networks, DMZ's, etc) and I cannot and would not want to open NFS up between
those nets.

I played originally played with the installing IBMi OS partitions (as well
as ptf's) from NFS, and while it works it was problematic at times.

Jim



From: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I was wondering the same thing and instead of responding I hit the next
email.

Seriously folks: Once you get the set up done, it is so easy to use the NFS
method and it cuts storage down too.


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DrFranken
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 1:57 PM
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Subject: Re: Fix Central cume to image catalog

Rob will sit back and laugh here, but here is my question:

Why are you FTPINg all this images around? Why not host them on ONE
partition and use a network based virtual optical drive on each of the
other
partitions?

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 2/8/2017 2:44 PM, JWGrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I tend to logon to fix central, order the cumulative package (either
the full cumulative package and/or the hiper PTF's) for the version
and release I need. I then tell fix central to send the order to the
IBM's FTP server.

In about an hour you will get a series of e-mails stating the the
order is ready for pickup.
I directly download then to the IBMi, The IBMi then saves the .bin
files to a save file and pushes them automatically to all the IBMi
partitions that need the fixes.

Works great and I can PTF my entire environment in about two days
(with off hours IPL's) The IPL's are automated as well.

Jim




From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/08/2017 01:30 PM
Subject: Re: Fix Central cume to image catalog
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Using FileZilla to ftp from my PC to the IBM i..

Man. It took almost 4 hours to download the 35gb from IBM to my PC
with FileZilla. I tried direct to the IBM i via FileZilla and it
would have taken 3 times that long. Had no idea Fiz Central was that

slow.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:27 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/8/2017 12:17 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

I would highly suggest you use a binary FTP to push them across.

Filezilla FTP client works great to do it with.

I concur on that. I've had multi-gigabyte Win copy/pastes fail at 99%.

FTP is much more reliable. Filezilla supports restart too.

david



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