Re: I hosting I safeguard for PWRDWNSYS

Okay, now I get to really show my ignorance.  You say "reach out to the HMC".  This seems to imply that a program running on IBM i can execute a command on the HMC. This would make sense, and would be very cool.  I found a document that explains the process in detail, but it does seem to rely heavily on SSH, an area where I'm not exactly an expert.  (I know that's a large field, but be nice, it's the holidays.)

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019126

So, is this document, though a bit long in tooth, still what I need to do?  Because it then opens up some other very important capabilities.



On 12/29/2018 8:20 AM, DrFranken wrote:

HMC available? In the Exit program Holger mentions reach out to the HMC and check the status of each partition.

Run a command like this:

lssyscfg -r lpar -m <your machine name here> -F name,state --filter "lpar_names=<partition name here>"

Note that the --filter can accept multiple names in this format:

--filter \""lpar_names=Giest1,Guest2,Guest3\""

If you ran that for partitions as above you might get one of these responses:

Guest1,Running
Guest2,Not Activated
Guest3,Not Activated

If any are NOT in the 'Not Activated' state then Powering down is a bad idea.

**NOTE* ALL HMC StuFF is CaSe SensiTIVe!

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