Re: Simplified HMC Setup?

Cable everything, but don't plug in your System i just yet.
Connect the second Network Port of the HMC to the HMC1 Port of your

System i.

Connect the first Network Port of the HMC to your management LAN.
Power on the HMC.
You'll be greeted with HMC v7 Setup Wizard. Configure the first
network Port as an open network, and the second network port as a
private port. For the exact TCP/IP configuration of the first network
port, you'll have to get this info from whoever deals with your
network stuff. For the second, private network, configure your HMC to
act as a DHCP server, and choose an unused IP range (check that with
your network guy).
After a few more clicks, setting up IBM connection, configuring login
credentials, timezones, etc. pp. You'll be on the main HMC menu.

I did all this, though the networks were reversed: eth0 was set as the
private LAN with the HMC working as the DHCP server, eth1 was the public
LAN. I believe that's the way it's supposed to go....

Now plug the power into you System i. Wait a few minutes, and your
System i should appear automatically in the HMC. If it does not, let
the HMC Scan for a System - it should find it.

At that point, you might need to configure the console of the (only)
partition. Just enter the partition profile, and set the HMC as a
console. After that, start the server and then the partition. Done.

So just skip all the system plan stuff? I can live with that. The HMC
currently sees the System, I just don't have the partition set to use HMC
as a console yet. My problem probably comes from the fact that I started
the system and then tried to set the HMC as the console.

The Redbook in question suddenly goes from very practical 1-2-3 steps in
hooking up the HMC to all kinds of scenarios that just don't apply to us.
I don't know when or if it ever gets back to actually telling us how to
setup the !#$ thing.

In the meantime I had to reload the HMC three times because we kept
getting locked out: I was using passphrases for hcsroot, and it
definitely doesn't like that. I don't know how the underlying scripts
work on HMC configuration, but all of the user passwords were screwed up
after rebooting. I pulled back to seven character passwords for hscroot,
root and a new operator password and everything suddenly worked. The
Redbook mentions what kinds of characters you can use, that you must start
the password with a character as opposed to a number, but never mentions
what kind of limits there are on the total password length. <sigh>

I'm not experienced with the HMC as other people on this list -
especially Rob Dekko knows alot about this stuff, maybe he has more
insights into this topic.

Anybody who knows a lot about it has my deepest sympathy. I think it will
be worth the trouble in the end, but I'm not finding the documentation to
be up to the levels I normally expect from the OS/400 scene........