All of our consoles are SMCS consoles accessed via telnet (SSL). They all require logon. When we had physical consoles cabled to a controller we did not require logon.
Our management decided that the operators should work in the new datacenter (before we had any production equipment there). This did have the desirable side effect that we learned that there was no longer any reason for the operators to be physically near the machine room (printing has been moved to the financial center, tapes are all virtual, ...). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
