Re: Ethernet vary off/on - no twinax

Here's what we do.

Most everyone in the company connects via PC Client Access.

I connect via choice of Twinax, PC Client Access, Operations Navigator, have VPN from home ... they also provided me a laptop with wireless, which so far I have not operated from outside the company firewall.

Some users have command line access and a very few have IO Config security.
Sign on as one of them, get to command line & call up a menu I created long time ago, and add to occasionally.

It has comon fixit options so we not have to remember all command strings.
It also has all the alert message queues, and easy access to WRKPRB all in one place so when anything goes haywire, we go to that one place and check all the usual suspects. I am in the habit of checking the alert queues almost daily.

If you were starting something like this, think Dashboard for Computer Troubleshooting.

Some of the other posts sound like you are using Ethernet for a heck of a lot more than we are. Most of our connections are via CISCO emulating IBM controllers. Our AS/400 thinks it has a bunch of local and remote controllers, when in fact they are all CISCO, some local, some remote. When CISCO hardware goes down, we usually have to physically turn off equipment, turn it back on, reboot (IPL) the 400. But this is pretty rare. CISCO hardware is almost as reliable as IBM.

I guess I am just a troglodyte working for a bunch more troglodytes.
I can see that when the time comes for us to move into the 21st century, the learning curve will be like the Olympic Torch going up Mount Everest. The protesters there also.

A post I just read popped a question into my brain.

If there's a problem with the one and only ethernet line on my i5 520 to
where I need to do a vary off/on to correct, I can now do that in one of
2 (maybe 3) ways:

1) Go to the lone remaining twinax display I have and perform it there
2) Use my ops console direct connect and do it there
3) Sign on to my IXS, open a 5250 session, and do it there (I think)

But if my next system has no twinax, no IXS, no HMC, and who knows what
for a console <g>, how would I do that?

Is this where the ASM port comes in?

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Jeff Crosby
UniPro Foodservice/Dilgard
260-422-7531
Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my company. Unless I say so.


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