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Re: Upgrade HMC 7042CR8 from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4 and 8286 41A&42A from FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056

USB memory option is an external usb drive, no idea why you would want one
(to backup? why buy an ibm branded one?)
The order might not have a memory option if it's using the default. I know
older HMCs came with only 1Gb RAM, but since it's a common x3550 you can
always add more.
Any reason you want to know how much ram you've got?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Found it.

After using putty to login into the HMC
monhmc -r mem
Mem: 4043216k total, 2924888k used, 119028k free, 563348k buffers


http://aix4admins.blogspot.com/2011/08/hmc-command-line-commands-have-help.html

I found our original HMC order, which shows 8gb.
1208 8GB Pluggable USB Memory Option

But the command is only showing 4gb.

Paul


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FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056

IDK.

Rob Berendt
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From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
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Date: 12/31/2015 01:36 PM
Subject: RE: Upgrade HMC 7042CR8 from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4 and 8286
41A&42A from FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056
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Rob,

I found all the links I need to do this.
How do you find how much memory a 7042-CR6 has?

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:51 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Upgrade HMC 7042CR8 from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4 and 8286 41A&42A from
FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056

Rob,

Any update on this?

Paul

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Subject: RE: Upgrade HMC 7042CR8 from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4 and 8286 41A&42A from
FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056

Maybe next week. Kind of forgot about it.


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail
to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/23/2015 03:51 PM
Subject: RE: Upgrade HMC 7042CR8 from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4 and 8286
41A&42A from FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056
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Rob,

Did you complete 8.8.4 upgrade?
I'm on 8.8.2, would like to get current.
IBM I Recommended Fixes - HMC Code Updates is only showing to 8.8.1 Is
there a newer link or was this page simply not updated?


http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/ibmscdirect/23c4789ba6f5321886256fd300586b7f?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=2

- _Section2

Paul

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Subject: Re: Upgrade HMC 7042CR8 from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4 and 8286 41A&42A from
FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056

Thinking about not doing it at this time.
Not because of any concerns about either the HMC upgrade, or the firmware
upgrade.
More concerned about biting off more than I can chew at this time. What
with kicking the vendor software off that doesn't work with 7.2 and
upgrading those lpars up from 7.1 to 7.2.


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail
to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 12/07/2015 09:28 AM
Subject: Upgrade HMC 7042CR8 from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4 and 8286 41A&42A
from FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056
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I plan on upgrading both of my HMC's from 8.8.3 to 8.8.4
and upgrade my 8286's both 41A and 42A, from FW830.10 (68) to FW 840_056

I release that 8.8.4 is a minimum requirement to go to FW840.

Not using any RS232 ports on my AIX lpars.

Any issues with that?


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1
Group Dekko
Dept 1600
Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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