Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello Everyone,

good day to you,

i would like to know if anyone has ever use remote access facility for HMC. I mean the remote access allows us to shutdown and start up the HMC remotely.

For example location of HMC is oversea and administrator allows to perform recovery/upgrading the HMC remotely without standing infront the machine.

Kindly share if there is comercial product is able to support this.

I have few HMC running with HMC ver 3.5 up to 7.3.

Regards,

Originally posted by: apple08

we connect to remote HMC using websem and open certain ports. that helps us to remote manage the hmc.

Originally posted by: alethad

I VPN into our network and use PUTTY or web browser that way. Can you VPN?

Make sure you have all of the remote operations enabled in the HMC Management menu.

Originally posted by: KentPerrier

There are many IP addressable power strips out there that you can use. You access the power strip, then you can disable power to any of the ports.

Originally posted by: j.gann

Even for hmc upgrades the built-in remote access (via vpn if you use a public network) will normally do.

If you are into luxury, look at "kvm over ip"-switches which will not only let you cycle power remotely but also see the boot messages of the underlying linux.

For the rare cases where a hmc upgrade might go wrong, make friends with personnel at the remote site who can press buttons or take screen-shots with a digicam if required.

Anyway, redundant hmc setups are common, where a failed upgrade or other kind of hmc failure will not give you an instant headache.