RE: System names.

No issues with IBM.  Vital product data always goes up with any phone home
anyway so that's what they will key off of. 

I change that all the time, but consider naming it "RACK1-214403V" do it all
the time, but consider when your calling IBM that's a really easy spot to
find the serial number of that box.  The extra 8 characters won't kill you
in a script command. 

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
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Subject: System names.

I am not talking about individual lpar names, or anything you normally see
in IBM i (like in DSPNETA) but I'm talking about the whole system containing
all the lpars.

On my HMC I have these systems:
Server-8286-41A-SN214403V
Server-8286-41A-SN214405V
Server-8286-42A-SN21443BV
Each system contains multiple lpars.  For example the 42A may have GDIHQ1,
GDISYS1, GDWEB1, MAIL1, etc; the 41A-3V may have GDIHQ2, GDISYS2, MAIL2 and
the 41A-5V may have MAIL3, GDWEB3...
>From the command line on the HMC I can list by these names, or by
type-model*serial#.  For example these commands both work:
lssyscfg -r lpar -m Server-8286-41A-SN214403V -F name,lpar_id,state lssyscfg
-r lpar -m 8286-41A*214403V -F name,lpar_id,state

The "Server..." names were from defaults.  I am thinking of changing them to
something more meaningful.  In my case RACK1, RACK2, RACK3.  It's actually
really simple to do.
I can't think of any negative ramifications of doing so.  "Call home" 
won't confuse IBM, will it?  Hopefully it's not keyed off of this.
I may have to adjust my downtime instructions.

Rob Berendt
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