IBM Remote Support Manager for Storage
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This page provides status and controls for managing remote access to the system running the Remote Support Manager.

Possible values for the Remote Access state are: Disabled, Enabled or Active (indicating that a remote user is accessing the system).

When Remote Access is Enabled or Active, a timeout value shows the hours remaining before remote access will automatically be disabled. This timeout ensures that remote access will not be enabled indefinitly following a service call. The timeout is set to its default value when remote access is enabled.

When Remote Access is enabled, the remote user login (rservice) is enabled and calls to the modem will be answered. When Remote Access is disabled (either manually from this page or by the timeout), any remote user currently accessing the appliance is disconnected.

The option to automatically enable remote access on alert controls whether the appliance will automatically enable remote access when an alert is sent to IBM Service. When this option is disabled, alerts will be sent to IBM, but you will need to manually enable remote access to the appliance before IBM Service can access the appliance. Note that even when this option is enabled, remote access will not automatically be enabled unless the internal firewall is also enabled.

When option is enabled, any new alert ( that occurs when Remote Access is already enabled), will cause the Remote Access Timeout to be reset. This ensures that IBM Service will have adaquete time to work on the most recent problem reported by the Remote Support Manager.

On this page you can also set the value for the Remote Access Timeout. This value is used to set the current timeout (if Remote Access is enabled) and will be used as the default for future timeouts.


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