[Info-vax] 3par ssh connection

[Craig A. Berry]

On 5/22/19 12:38 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-05-22 17:10:03 +0000, mepetya said:

>> The easiest thing would be to use another ported SSH client, but 
>> unfortunately I don't know one. Do you know someone else I could try?
> 
> If there is a port or if there is to be a port, it'd probably start 
> here: https://www.openssh.com — but I'm not aware of a port.

He just needs a client, so trying to port a big project like OpenSSH,
nice as that would be to see, hardly seems viable.  Porting PuTTY would
be more realistic, but still a bit more than an afternoon's work for
someone who knows all about implementing virtual terminal applications
on VMS.  libssh2 has been known to work on VMS, but it's just a library
and last time I looked did not have a terminal emulator application that
embeds it.

I don't recall seeing a reason that access has to be from the OpenVMS
host to the storage widget.  I can't imagine that VMS is going to use
ssh to *mount* a volume on this 3par thing, so if it's a matter of
connecting to it to do configuration tasks, surely that could be done
from anything on the same network, even if "the same network" means
carrying a tablet or notebook into the server room and connecting it to
the storage-private network.  Buying a chromebook and leaving it in the
server room would be a lot cheaper than any of the alternatives so far
proposed.