RE: Why is my Operations Console connection failing

>From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@RELATIONAL-DATA.COM]

>What is a KVM?

Technically, a KVM Switch, or a Keyboard-Video-Mouse Switch. I plug a number
of machines into the switch along with one keyboard, one mouse and one
monitor and I can switch between them. There are simple ones (2 PCs and one
KVM) to complex ones (100s of PCs, multiple KVM, and the KVM can be on the
other end of an IP connection).

>Otherwise, why would IBM be putting so much work into Operations Navigator?

I don't object to Ops Nav (well, I do, but I'll live with it) however, there
are some simple operations that will always require a 5250-like screen.
Something like a scratch install where there is no networking interface to
support Ops Nav until the OS is loaded. Ops Console isn't Ops Nav, it's a
miserable attempt at replacing 5250 hardware. I'd find it hard to believe
that the hardware in the iSeries necessary to support Ops Console costs them
less than what it would have cost to have an embedded 5250 controller with
an embedded 5250 emulator and a keyboard and video port.

I'm looking for the dumb-terminal console, but not a proprietary 5250-one
but rather a industry-standard keyboard and monitor one just like every
other server in the world (PCs (Dell, Compaq, IBM, etc. with any OS),
pSeries, Sun boxes, etc.)

-Walden


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