[Info-vax] 3par ssh connection

[John Nebel]

Right! "surely that could be done from anything on the same network."

3par management is a three ring circus, not so bad if one is familiar with Linux, and 
VMware, and has MacOS handy.  OpenVMS itself doesn't need to be part of the fun other than 
a consumer of 3par virtual disk space.

True: The current VSI OpenVMS ssh is unable to access the latest 3par OS's cli. Also true: 
"VMS Software Inc. is working on the 2nd release of the VSI TCPIP network stack.  The 
release will be called VSI TCPIP V10.6 for I64.  VSI TCPIP V10.6 includes updates to SSH, 
BIND, NTP4, and addresses many software defects reported against the VSI TCPIP V10.5 EAK."



On 5/22/19 6:21 PM, Craig A. Berry via Info-vax wrote:
> 
> 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.
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