RE: I hosting I safeguard for PWRDWNSYS

Thanks Larry and Joe.
This will be a 2019 project.
We use the SSH concept to stop/start services on remote servers from the I.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 9:39 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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