Re: HMC code update from the grave

In the end the hmc was at v6r1.3. I could swear the gui was not like
that in v6r1, but version 6 release 1.3 is what "about" tells me.
I'll just install the pre v7 efixes, check the asmi password and
proceed onwards to v7.
FSP was at 240_382, seems somebody other than me had already upgraded
the fw, maybe ibm back when it was under contract...
in any case, thanks all for the advice.

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:23 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey, we keep it right there on the post it note by the hmc.  We figure,
hey, it's a card access room and it's only hmc/fsp stuff.  Not like we
keep qsecofr or some such thing on a post it note.  Data's secure and
we're only opening ourselves to a DOS attack.  But if they can get into
the machine room a few yanks on some network and/or power cables is a much
simpler DOS attack.


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From:   Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:   02/09/2012 08:20 AM
Subject:        Re: HMC code update from the grave
Sent by:        midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



One way to ensure you know the HMC password is to go into the ASMI from
the HMC and change it BEFORE you do anything else.  That has saved my
backside a time or two since customers rarely know what the CE or
installer set it to in the first place.  Then if they think they know,
it's almost always not correct.   Customers with legislative
constraints, or that have a full time administration staff usually know
the password and it's correct.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 2/8/2012 7:34 PM, DrFranken wrote:

Two things to keep in mind:

1) Watch for the relationship between the firmware and HMC. That is,
don't update the HMC too far all at once so that you loose connection to
the FSP.

-and more importantly-

2) Make sure you have the HMC access password. If you completely reload
the HMC then it will 're-introduce itself' to the FSP and the FSP will
require that password.  (Yes you can reset the FSP with the magical
switches but then it kinda forgets everything it knows.)

      - Larry "DrFranken Bolhuis"

On 2/8/2012 8:02 PM, Chris Bipes wrote:

 I had to make the same upgrade a while back.  I hired an expert to

do it.  He ended up wiping the HMC and discarding the backup data.  He
reloaded the one server with one partition back from the service processor
with no loss of production data.  Your plan sounds valid and about what we
did over a fuzzy and busy year ago.

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