RE: System i5 first boot

Jeff, 

Stay of our your freezer man, keep those finger warm and moving. ;-)
I have my primary console as a HMC and a backup console is twinax.  When
a cume knocked out our HMC a while back, the twinax console allowed us
to complete the IPL while waiting for IBM to come and apply a patch to
the HMC.  I also use Ops Console for a remote site.  But good old MS
killed that with a hot fix.  Once identified and removed, it worked
again.  And this is an unmanned site.  I wish management had gone for a
HMC out there with Ops Con as backup.  (We use a serial to Ethernet
converter to give my laptop the connection from the office or VPN.)

The main thing to do is define your backup console using what ever
connection is available to you.  I also have a twinax console on my 820
and my 170's.

Question:  How can I configure my HMC in CA to work with my 520 in CA
and my 520 in IL?  We are at V5R3M0 and our HMC is way behind on
updates.


Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+chris.bipes=cross-check.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:01 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: System i5 first boot

I love my Ops Console direct attach because I can do my RCLSTG, PTF
IPLs, etc from home while watching TV.

That being said, when I upgraded from V5R3 to V5R4, Ops Console tanked
completely.  If I had not had a twinax card to where Supportline walked
me through the switch to a twinax console, I would have been DOA.  And I
_did_ the prep work that was supposed to be done to the console prior to
attempting the upgrade.

Ops Console tanked because IBM "rewrote it from the ground up"
(Supportline
words) for V5R4 such that it no longer worked via the Belkin
USB-to-serial adaptor.  Supportline and I did not figure that out until
sometime the following week.  My IBM BP ran into that same issue when
they tried to upgrade to V5R4.  AFAIK, ops con direct still will not
work via USB-to-serial adaptor.

The only twinax tube we have left is just for such an occasion, should
it occur again.  You'll get that twinax brick and sundries when you pry
them out of my cold dead fingers.  And that's the only reason for twinax
in our shop.