Not normally one to contradict Wirt, but I don't think you should have
any problems doing this, but you may need to get an operator to switch
the port setting to session rather than console. And to do so we never
alter the standard modem settings.

As we have found on several sites this year that have upgraded to "A" or
"N" class boxes, they have just junked all their DTC's. So the only
remote connection you have (if web console isn't accessible) is via the
remote support modem line.

And yes we have been successfully transferring hundreds of files via
Reflection via this route. Would normally use FTP these days but it
doesn't work over dial up.

All you need to do is to ensure that this port is set for Session rather
than Console. To do this.

At the Console CTRL B, this will enter you into the new fangled GPS or
is that GSP system, just hit return through the system name and password
options (unless they are configured) and then at the GSP prompt enter
ER. This will show you the current state of the port and give you the
choice to set it to CONSOLE, SESSION or Disabled/locked out. Take the
"S" option it should say that it is updating, and then exit GSP by
entering CO.

When you now dial in you will get a colon prompt and can login and
transfer files normally, assuming that you have PCLINK2 installed
somewhere on the HP3000.

The only fly in the ointment that we have found, or rather two is that,
on two A400's both have needed new cards before the modem would work
properly, and also there appears to be a problem with Predictive, such
that when it dials out it somehow screws the active configuration of the
modem port, so that if it is configured for Session, the modem will ring
but refuse to answer.

If you get this problem. Use GSP change the config back to CONSOLE and
exit, dial in, the modem will then answer, immediately disconnect, Use
GSP and set it back to Session. The modem port will then continue to
operate faultlessly until about a week later, when you will have to
repeat the exercise.

Now apart from the problem of convincing HP Engineers that the remote
support modem should be just that, and not just a device for Predictive
to dial out on, you should be able to transfer to your hearts content.

Alan





In article <[log in to unmask]>, Wirt Atmar
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Steve asks:
>
>> I'm connected to a HP through a modem with remote
>>  console enabled. I've been attempting to download
>>  files to the box , but this fails with a 'Unable to
>>  transfer file: Host does not Respond" message. Are
>>  there any settings that I need to adjust to make this
>>  work.
>
>Yes, don't do it. At least not the way that you're attempting to do it. While
>it is possible to transfer files through the HP-supplied modem/remote console
>port, you have to so jack the configuration settings around so much that you
>don't want to do that either. The problem is that the port that you're trying
>to transfer files over is an "active" port, that is, it's listening to the
>data that's flowing through the modem and occasionally acting upon it. That's
>the worst thing that can happen if you're trying to transfer data. Your data
>is every once and a while hitting one of the control signals that the remote
>console uses.
>
>What you'll find is that transferring files will be easy if you go through
>any DTC-connected port other than the remote console. Indeed, that's
>basically the only way to do it.
>
>But let me say that if you have no DTC's and no other modems, and never
>intend on the HP modem being ever used again as remote console, it is
>possible, after a few days worth of trying, to successfully reconfigure the
>modem and its port to working in the manner that you want. It just won't work
>as a remote console port any longer.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
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