Re: HMC service pack - Dead -- MIDRANGE-L

HA! Well if yer gonna make a mistake this is a good one to make- just looking at the wrong screen! I think most of us have been there, I know I have!! A great releif when you figure it out!

Thanks for the comic relief!

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On 7/16/2018 4:28 PM, Christopher Bipes wrote:

Boy did I blow it. You cannot ping the HMC as it is blocked in its firewall. I had the OLD KVM open and the HMC never came up on it.

I started the PING after I submitted the reboot and was waiting for a response that will NEVER come. So I went to check the KVM cables on the back of the HMC and saw it went to the rack next door, not the KVM I had opened and was still labeled HMC. So I opened the other KVM and selected the HMC and had the log on screen. Boy was that an ID ten T error. Guess I even hard booted it twice. What a rock solid system to work despite my being an idiot.

Oh I am running the CR6 as well with both a power 7 and power 8 attached. The P7 will work all the way up to V8R910 according to the matrix but now to verify where the 7042-CR6 can go.

Chris Bipes
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 1:10 PM
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Subject: RE: HMC service pack - Dead

Chris,

Please keep us posted.

I'm on 8.8.4.0 SP0.
Was planning to do the HMC upgrade to 8.8.6, which is the latest I can get to with a P7 and 7042 CR6.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Bipes
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 3:51 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: HMC service pack - Dead

I just applied service pack 3 to my HMC at 8.8.4.0 SP 2 . Now it will not boot. Ran through and everything was fine until it called for a reboot.

Dead. No keyboard, mouse or monitor. Time to call IBM.

The panel does not even show any errors. Thank god I have a backup from Sunday.

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CrossCheck, Inc.

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