Re: 520 Power 5 Remote Console Access

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

or in the poor man's HMC version of that, hook up the HMC1 or HMC2
port to a dedicated eth on the lan console and enter the ASMI for
power up/power down/error led shutdown.
but with CR3 rack mounted HMC's selling for 400 usd on ebay, i would buy it...

Best regards,

Roberto

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:46 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes that will work and work reasonably well. The one thing that you
> cannot do is operate the control panel completely through that
> connection. You can get a virtual control panel on the PC while the
> system is running however during an IPL the control panel will be gone
> for a time and you are 'in the dark' during that time. You cannot power
> the system UP with the Virtual Control Panel.
>
> A better solution is to purchase an HMC and connect that to your
> POWER5.  With that you can power the system up and down, view the SRC
> codes all the way through an IPL and have complete visibility of the
> system even if it fails.  Personally I would prefer the HMC solution
> about 5 to one over the LAN console.
>
>     - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> On 10/5/2011 9:38 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> > We have a 520 Power 5 as a backup machine in a remote data center.  I'd
> > like to be able to remotely access the console. I want to do system
> > maintenance (PTFs&  upgrades) without needing to involve the data center
> > staff.
> >
> > I believe we need to remove the twinax console and set up a PC as a LAN
> > console.  PC needs to be running at least iSeries Access 6.
> >
> > Then I could do a remote desktop to that PC and I'd be running the console.
> >
> > Am I on the right track?
> >
> > Thanks,  Sam
> >
> > I found this IBM document:
> > http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/SLKBase.nsf/1ac66549a21402188625680b0002037e/79a308457dd4c6c18625770e0057530f?OpenDocument
> > by googling "lan console power5 520"
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