Re: disconnect HMC

Because the HMC will try to reconnect, make sure you know all the passwords. Most likely you will not need them, but I have been called to customers that have lost the HMC password and the FSP Admin passwords. FSP reset time when that happens......

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/1/2011 4:37 PM, Kirk Goins wrote:

Unplug and plug away.. The HMC Might call IBM to report the lost contact,
but that's about it.


On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Chris Bipes<chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Has anyone unplugged an HMC from an iSeries and had any problems? I need
> to put a switch between the HMC and FSP so I can add another iSeries to the
> HMC. They currently are directly connected. I have rebooted the HMC during
> the day without issues but never unplugged the cable. I do not want to
> crash the system or come in during the middle of the night.
>
> Any experience out there?
>
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