From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Peter Bjoern > That was our first preference (seen from a functionality point of view), > however having those ports open from all the clients to the internal side > is unacceptable to the network security people since it would involve > having > to allow sessions being initiated from clients on the outside to > the server > on > the inside and they will not allow outside initiated connections. > > The solution with the external server placed between two firewalls and > other stuff > where you only needed to permit traffic from on IP to one IP on specific > ports > was the only way to transport data from the outside to the inside that > could be approved.
If you run your client schedules in prompted mode (rather than the default polling mode), the server initiates the backup, not the client. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE > >Have you thought about having the clients in > >question being backed up directly to the internal TSM server? It would > mean > >having TCP ports 1500 and 1501 open.
