Re: Diagnosing ACS Connection issues

Understood Rob but even if it worked it it would not prove anything since their system is on a different network/firewall setup. All it would do is let them run the 5250 based exercises and that isn't enough.

With the help of the folks on the IBM i OSS Ryver channel I _think_ I have a working solution that uses ssh tunnelling. It remains to be seen if the client can make it work though.


Jon P.

On Jul 19, 2022, at 8:01 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon,
Art didn't mean that as a fix but as a test.

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Yes that would work Art - but it is only a temporary fix as we also need a lot of other ACS functionality.


Jon P.

On Jul 18, 2022, at 4:24 PM, Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If they have an IBM i can they TELNET from their green screen to yours
instead?

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We(at one of your RDi classes Different Companies) had an issue.

It was a firewall issues because of the *program(RDi)* wasn't allowed to
run connecting to outside the companies. Not a port issue.

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Do you mean the Verify Connection Don?

If so I believe they have yes - but as I stated in my original post the

base connection (which I think is all that tests) appears to work. I will
ask them to check again though.

Jon P

On Jul 17, 2022, at 5:37 PM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L<

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Have you run the test connection from within ACS to see what fails ?

This should narrow it down.

Don






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I am running a series of remote classes for a client and they are unable
to connect via ACS.

I am convinced that it is a firewall issue at their end and they are
equally convinced that it is not.

Here's the scenario.

Fire up ACS and it asks for user Id and pw. Connection appears to be

made

and green screen appears but never connects.

From the same location users who have installed Code for IBM i can use

the

5250 terminal in that to sign on. Trouble is that terminal is (to be
polite) pretty horrible and not really practical to work with for a

group

trying to learn the basics of IBM i.

Any suggestions on what tooling I can ask them to run to attempt to
identify the blockage?

Is there another terminal option that would utilize the same connection

as

Code for IBM i (assumedly SSH) as its communication vehicle?

I was hoping that their firewall restriction might be related to only
permitting secure connection ports so I've tried to get my ACS running
with SSL but sadly that was a miserable failure and the error messages
make so sense to me so I've abandoned even trying that for now.


Any thoughts ?


Jon P.
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