Re: persistent console in HMC -- MIDRANGE-L

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They DO need to exist locally, somehow.

One way is to do that via the HMC.

Another though is to have a Windows/Linux/MAC VM at that sight that you can connect to and start a session. That way when your VPN dies, (and it will) you can reconnect to the session or reconnect to that VM.

- Larry

On 12/21/2022 2:34 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:

We have an older HMC (7042-CR4) and have a Q about creating/maintaining persistent console sessions.

The HMC and two IBM I systems are in a rack at a far away data center (somewhere in the cloud).

We have VPN access to the HMC for system management of three LPARs on two systems.

Do the console sessions have to be created locally on the HMC as shared sessions to be persistent?

Yes, we can use ACS to connect to a console session on an LPAR.

But what happens if we lose our VPN connection.

It appears that the console session is lost.

If we create the console sessions as shared from the HMC itself in the data center then they remain no matter if we lose our connection or not.

What is best practice here?

Thx,

Jerry

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