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Chapter 7. Replicating a Remote Boot Server Environment
If you determine that remote boot servers are the best option for your planned
remote IBM Network Station users, one of your next tasks is to develop an
implementation plan. In addition, you must make a key decision about
whether you will use the separation of servers function or if your remote boot
servers will also act as authentication servers.
Another task in your plan is determining how (and when) the IBM Network
Station Manager product is installed on your remote servers. The normal,
supported installation method, found in the manual , can used to install the
5648-C05 CDs or you can download the code from the Web. However, this
chapter discusses an alternative method for getting the IBM Network Station
Manager for AS/400 product installed on the remote servers. Your
implementation plan should also include a task that determines if there are
common or unique system-wide, group or user level desktop preferences for
the remote site users. Additional information on planning for TCP/IP and IBM
Network Stations is included in the manual
IBM Network Station Manager
Installation and Use,
SC41-0664.
The following sections discuss several example scenarios for replicating the
IBM Network Station Manager environment from a central boot server to
remote boot servers. Please notice that these methods have not been tested
by development and therefore are not formally supported
7.1 Centralized Authentication Server
In this scenario, assume that a central AS/400 (AS1) system located at
company headquarters in New York is connected to twenty remote AS/400
systems through an existing TCP/IP based wide area network. The central
AS/400 system, at V4R3 and Release 3 of IBM Network Station Manager for
AS/400, was installed for a recently completed pilot. Because the IBM
Network Station pilot was successful, the decision was made to begin a roll
out of IBM Network Stations at each of the twenty remote sites. Because
these remote AS/400s are at V4R3, they are capable of running IBM Network
Station Manager for AS/400 Release 3. The
planned network diagram is
shown in Figure 125 on page 214. The first remote site is in St. Louis. The
AS2 AS/400 system installed there has V4R3 installed with a number of PCs
currently connected to it on an Ethernet LAN. The plan is to replace a number
of existing under-utilized, out-dated PCs with IBM Network Stations and leave
the more current PCs in place for those users who need a PC.