I'll stay out of 2, but 1 and certainly 3 definitely apply to us. Since our office building is now quite a ways away from the actual hardware, us sysprogs routinely use the HMC both for IPL and to issue some commands. Also, we routinely swap lpars from one box to the other, meaning that 'the consoles' need to have their appropriate 3270 pcomm session (different IP address AFAIK) started. Until they're up, HMC is the only means of communication from here.
The test sysplex doesn't have a console anymore. Well, there are some consoles defined for that, but those sessions are never open. So the only way to IPL is the HMC. One of them happens to be right here in our office. Regards, Barbara >1) How many of you have used to it in an emergency as the "console of last >resort"? >2) How many of you have used it to recover OSA attached consoles? > >3) How many of you have no locally-attached consoles and use the System >Console to IPL and get you through NIP before transitioning to SMCS consoles >(or some other console support requiring Comm Server to be up)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
