Keep in mind that the HMCs on your SE LAN are <may be ;-)> an integral part
of the BCPii connectivity between CECs. For a remote request, BCPii will
tunnel through to the SE on the local CEC and if the BCPii request is not for
this CEC then move to the HMC looking for a route to the SE for the remote CEC
in question. The HMC has moved beyond just console/IPL support, but then you
all knew that already, didn't you <g>
I really like the OSA support for consoles and also the ability to easily
get to the HMC via a web browser (of course with the proper firewall support
and not directly on the SE LAN subnet). Back in a previous life it saved me a
LOT of walking back and forth to the HMC console during test IPLs.
Regards,
Stan
Stan Weyman
Senior Software Engineer
stan.wey...@emc.com
EMC² (508)249-3966
where information lives
It is wise to keep in mind that neither
success nor failure is ever final...
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
W. Kevin Kelley
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:02 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: HMC System Console usage (one more time)
I'm being asked one more time by TPTB to determine how the HMC System
Console is actually being used by z/OS customers:
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)?
W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development
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