Re: New 520 - Does the OS come pre-installed?

I understand, and I know that's the way of the future. The BP set up this
520 as part of the sale. I want it that way on any new i that we get
because, well, why should I try to figure all that stuff out when I'll be
doing it once every 5 years or so? It's just the more complexity, the more
chance for problems.

Our 520 has plenty of horsepower for the next couple of years and it's
supposed to handle the OS release _after_ i6.1. I assume that means i6.2 or
i7.1, not the i6.1.1 that was just released.

Two years from now, I would assume that the blades and SANS and HMC that I
truly am interested in will have many kinks worked out. And if every server
in the place, including the i, can be SANitized (ooh, I made a funny), that
provides more efficiencies in backup and modularity in upgrading components
one at a time instead of the whole enchilada in one fell swoop.


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeff,

Yeah, my experience was ugly, but I was also pushing the bleeding edge
with the JS12 blade and knew that I was in for some fun. Since that
last round of firmware/OS updates in June, the blade has been about as
reliable as the old 520 I had. I had a VIOS issue a few weeks back and
the length of time it took to recover was self inflicted. But I do
think that an install "wizard" would be a step forward as long as it
included a boatload of diagnostic tools so the stuff that Aaron
experienced could be quickly diagnosed and corrected. I don't care if
the end user ignores every caution that you give them prior to starting
an install, your install procedure should *assume* that the end user
ignored your instructions and should guide them (gently) through doing
it the correct way. I sit my wife in front of my installer wizard (she
about as close to a Luddite as there is) and watch to see what she does
wrong at every step and then I rewrite the routine to anticipate those
missteps.

But I don't think the i is *supposed* to be a user installed system,
like the HP you get at Costco.

Pete


Jeff Crosby wrote:

Aaron,

I cannot help you, but I have to say something.

I am NOT looking forward to the day when my company needs to replace the

520

with Power i equipment. The amount of trouble people like you and Lukas

and

Pete had and are having getting new machines set up and running gives me

the

willies. I want simplicity, not this new complexity being introduced.

Just my $.02.


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

I am now in section "Initial IBM i OS configuration" (
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/GettingStarted).

Upon first logging in with QSECOFR/QSECOFR it requires you to change the
QSECOFR password. No issue, I did that and proceeded to the next step

of

putting the system into manual mode, was prompted by the DST logon

prompt,

and I entered QSECOFR and the *new* password. Well, it didn't take the

new

password, so I tried QSECOFR as the password - no go. And now it is
telling
me "Id disabled" when I try to log in. When I do an F1 on that message

to

get more info it just takes me to the help for the screen, so I don't

even

have a message id to do a search on to see how to resolve the issue.

This

is the only page I could find, but it requires that I am able to log in

to

DST to enable a DST profile - thanks IBM:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/rzamh/rzamhenabledevidsdst.htm

Help.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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