Re: ECS / ESA Phone Home From VIOS?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Kirk, do you find a service agent setup within the SDMC??  On HMC it is
> under Service Management.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Currently I have a Power7 E4B running VIOS with 5 IBM i partitions. All
> > disk is native, either in the CPU or in an EXP24s. IBM i sees the drives
> > basically as SAN drives with no protection. VIOS was used to build and
> > manage the Raid sets. So IBM i will probably never call home about a
> > failed
> > disk. Now my SDMC will also probably never call home for a disk failure on
> > it's own as it typically only monitors for platform related errors not
> > individual I/O devices. IBM seems a little lost as to if VIOS can actually
> > call home when an HNC or SDMC is involved.. anyone actually have VIOS
> > configured to call home?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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> > Kirk
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