RE: System i5 first boot

Hi Aaron - we met in Miami

It looks like the machine has booted - the control panel codes look good.

Pete has given you the best help so far - you do not have a twinax card, 
probably, so forget all the noise about twinax. It looks like you ordered a LAN 
console. There are instructions at infocenter for setting that up - and maybe 
with your system - i forget. That is a version of Ops Console, actually.

And the cable you are using will not work, AFAIK - sounds like a null-modem 
kind of thing - you want a normal ethernet cable, I think.

Now there is another interface - Advanced System Management Interface - that 
works out of one of the HMC ports - someone gave you those default addresses 
earlier - you use a normal ethernet cable there, not peer to peer. You can 
change the console type there, I think. For info on this, go to 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r3s/topic/iphae_web/asmitype.htm

I found it easy to use, but it has no terminal emulation.

As someone else said, call IBM - I assume you got this through the partner 
lease program. Someone has not told you what you need to know.

Good luck my friend!
Vern

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From: "albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> 

First, look to see how you're supposed to be connected. Your system is 

configured to use something, probably Op's Console. 

Where do I look to see how my system is configured? On the packing list 
that shipped with my system I have this line item on it: 

Feature Quantity 
5553 001 Sys console-ethernet no IOP 

You really need to RTFM. 

I followed the "Quick start guide for i5 520" that came with my machine - 
didn't get me there. All the other links that I have followed have not 
gotten me there (i.e. IBM Systems Hardware Information Center which was 
somehow installed on my desktop and I have been pouring through that). I 
should not need to be well versed as an iSeries admin to get my machine 
booted for the first time. 

Can somebody confirm that I should be able to configure my iSeries if I 
connect a desktop PC to it via ethernet cable that has the wires switched 
for peer-to-peer capabilities (i.e. the desktop is directly etherneted into 
the iSeries without any other devices in-between) 

On a last note, the display panel on my latest boot is displaying "01 B 
N V=F" with a single "T" on the second line. 

Thanks for any direction you can provide, 
Aaron Bartell 

-----Original Message----- 
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:50 AM 
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Subject: RE: System i5 first boot 

First, look to see how you're supposed to be connected. Your system is 
configured to use something, probably Op's Console. You really need to 
RTFM. 

Even if you do buy: twinax card (providing you have a slot for it), twinax 
terminal, twinax cabling, etc, just shoving all this in doesn't 
automatically make this your system console. 

And twinax is not the magic bullet some altzeimers seem to think it is. 
I've had a lot of issues with it in the past. Twinax cards going bad. Bad 
twinax cabling, address conflicts, baluns screwed up, terminals going bad, 
electrical shock from the attaching the cable because the wall plug was 
reversed, repeaters all needing to be replaced because 5250 signal is not as 
strong in an iSeries as it was in an AS/400, and more. 

Op's console was problem free for me. 
HMC, (now that most of the early ship issues have been worked out) is quite 
reliable now. 

Plus, with the newer technologies you can get remote access much easier. 

Rob Berendt 
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Group Dekko Services, LLC 
Dept 01.073 
PO Box 2000 
Dock 108 
6928N 400E 
Kendallville, IN 46755 
http://www.dekko.com 





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Hmmm... I get the feeling that is the direction I should be going also. 

It has been quite some time since I have been an operator (when I actually 
used a dumb terminal). Is this what I should be looking at getting? 
http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-3476-amber-and-greens-3476_W0QQitemZ120042629589QQih 

Z002QQcategoryZ162QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem 

Looks like it is going to run me about $145. Those things must be gaining 
speed as collectors items! I seem to remember a plethora of them at my 
previous employer that were all going the way of the buffalo. 

Aaron Bartell 

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta 
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:12 AM 
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Subject: RE: System i5 first boot 

I don't use the HMC, Aaron, I use a $50 dumb tube and a twinax brick. I've 
never had any problems. 

Joe 

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