Re: Interesting IP issue on my IBM i (all interfaces down, even LAN console)

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

maybe you could run some monitor code on the 400 that could determine that
TCP/IP was down and it could restart the servers.



On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a monitoring service that tells me when my web site is up or down.
>  It's hosted on my i (now to be called AS/400 from now on) 515 running V5R4
> at my office.
>
> Tonight I got an email saying it was down. Cool, it works.  Not cool, my
> site was actually down.
>
> I got on the LAN that the AS/400 is on.  Couldn't ping any IP interfaces on
> it.  Not even the LAN console IP address.
>
> I ended up doing a "manual IPL" and things were fine after that.
>
> But that leads me to ask...  if even my LAN console IP was down, how the
> heck am I supposed to be able to get onto the machine to see what is going
> on?  I was quite troubled and now have a bald spot on the side of my head
> where I was scratching it.  :)
>
> Thanks for any info...  after this, I'd actually like to be able to set up
> a dedicated PC to be a console, preferably not over IP.  If that's
> possible, I'm all ears as I have multiple old laptops I could use for
> consoles.  :)
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