Re: New 520 - Does the OS come pre-installed?

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looking at the *.log files for ops cons gave me the clues I needed.  Turns
out I had two firewalls on my PC (Windows AND McAfee) - yes, I feel like an
idiot now :-)  I have changed the wiki page to note people should look for
both.  I also modified point three to mention the hosts file addition.

I can now start up Ops Cons and it shows my configured connection.  I right
click on the connection and select Connect.  It then goes into a Status of
"Connecting console".  I then boot the IBM i, but nothing prompts me for the
profile/password.  I ran nmap and am only seeing expected IP addresses (i.e.
my router, my laptop, ASMI, etc).  I am wondering if what I *though* was the
system serial number is incorrect.  Does this look like a Power6 520 serial
number: R20BVIF  ?  If not, where can I locate the serial number?  I got
that number from the packing slip where it said "SW Serial No.:".

In the Ops Cons config I can see the BOOTP checkbox selected.  Is there
something in ASMI I need to check to make sure BOOTP is used?  The machine
still boots to the A9002000 code.

Thanks,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 18:41, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I went ahead and configured the hosts file.  Then I opened Ops Cons for
> the
> > first time since upgrading it to the latest version and am getting the
> below
> > message (see URL screen shot).
> >
> > http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/opscons_nolocalhost.JPG
>
> I've never seen this one before.
>
> Are you running this on a new, dedicated PC, or a machine on which you
> have already installed loads of other software? I've always seen
> OpsCon as something rather picky regarding to which software it
> interoperates with.
>
> OpsCon creates several logfiles in
> C:\Users\Public\Documents\IBM\Client Access\aoc - if you're using
> Windows XP the path might be different (Documents Settings, All Users
> Profile, somewhere there. Best search a folder called aoc).
>
> In a file called cwbopcon.log i see the following:
>
> 10/29/2009 19:03:58.669 1730/1508 CCommAsyncSocket: StartServer()
> listener 2112 to :0
> 10/29/2009 19:03:58.669 1730/1508 CCommunicationController: listener: 2112
> to :0
> 10/29/2009 19:03:58.919 1730/1508 CCommunicationController: OnAccept 7
> socket: 2112 to :0
> 10/29/2009 19:03:58.919 1730/1508 CCommunicationController: created
> srvr socket: 01d23060 127.0.0.1:63686<-->127.0.0.1:2112
>
> It appears that this port number is not randomized. Are you already
> running software machine? You can usage of port 2112 using netstat
> -ano | findstr 2112 - if this you a result this like, you should the
> PID of the process owning the socket to the right:
>
>  TCP    0.0.0.0:2112           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4564
>
> You can look this up using
>
> C:\Users\z-l.beeler>tasklist | findstr 4564
> cwbopcon.exe                  4564 RDP-Tcp#0                  2     10'036
> K
>
> > I am guessing this has something to do with my PC config and nothing to
> do
> > with Ops Cons per se, though I can't see to figure out what that would be
> > because I have tried setting my IP back to DHCP, rebooted, tried opening
> Ops
> > Cons again, but still get same message of "Could not connect to
> 127.0.0.1".
>
> I'd assume so. Are you any security software? My advise for OpsCon is
> always to use a clean, dedicated machine not connected any other
> network, so you can disable all updates and security functionality.
> This must be done because IBM is fairly slow in keeping pace - for
> example, OpsCon is not yet supported on Windows 7 and several Windows
> XP updates broke OpsCon, because it was improperly programmed.