Re: HMC automatic power on after failure?

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

Just like with any other SystemX machine, you just set the bios to either
"last state" which means if it was powered on, power on, otherwise stay
off, or "power on", which makes it power on each time the power is back on.
There is no setting on the HMC to control this (afaik) since it's a bios
setting. I guess you could set it with the ASU utility but that would mean
having the IMM configured on the network (the equivalent to the ASMI
interface).
Anyways, you can set it to autostart, but it's done from the BIOS/UEFI
screen.

Roberto

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Christopher Bipes <
chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Found this link to the HMC best practice PDF
> https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&;
> cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj0ndLXzsXWAhXBJJQKHfJpA
> xsQFgg9MAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-304.ibm.com%2Fwebapp%
> 2Fset2%2Fsas%2Ff%2Fbest%2Fhmc_best_practices.pdf&usg=
> AFQjCNFFjcJgGWb3Cwg4KCDfGKXQCJJ9YA
>
> Section 4 - Security
>
> Unattended start mode can be set in BIOS to allow the HMC to reboot
> without the power-on password following restoration of power after an
> unplanned outage. However, the keyboard and mouse at the local console
> will remain locked until the power-on password is entered.
>
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> David Gibbs
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 7:39 AM
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> Subject: HMC automatic power on after failure?
>
> Folks:
>
> As I've mentioned in the past ... I'm not a hardware guy.
>
> With that said ... how does the HMC respond when power is restored after
> a failure?
>
> We've got a scheduled power outage this weekend and will be powering
> down all the partitions on the system Friday evening ... if we power off
> the HMC, will it automatically boot up when power is restored?
>
> If we leave the HMC powered on (and let it go down when the UPS is
> exhausted), will it automatically boot up when power is restored (I know
> some PC's have the ability to reboot or remain off after a power loss
> based on BIOS setting).
>
> Is there a setting in the HMC to control the power state upon restoration?
>
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