Re: HMC port location

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all.

A picture is worth a thousand words.  Also, IBM kindly labeled the ports 
although it's not easy to read sideways at the back of a rack.  Turns 
out the cabling is OK.  Still sorting through the networking 
jungle...originally the vHMC lived on a VM in the BCS which had a 
network switch that was vlan'ed just for such an occasion.  The BCS is 
gone, the vHMC VM was migrated and now runs under VMWare Workstation 
player on my laptop.

I just needed to sort out the new topology and routing so it could find 
the FSP IP.  So, it seems to be happy now, even when I VPN into the 
network it lives on since I work remotely (for now).

I have a couple of questions about adding another VM to the mix but I 
need a bit of hardware first (memory).  One step at a time...

Pete Helgren
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GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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On 12/29/2020 1:34 PM, Shaun Ryan wrote:
> Pete
> this is the page that you want
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/cabling-hmc-and-fsp 
> <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/cabling-hmc-and-fsp>
>
> note the use of the link status check.
> From site with a hscroot signon, open the restricted shell terminal
> Enter the command tail -F /var/log/messages
>
> it will display the ethernet ports state transitions when you plug 
> your cable
>
> Cheers
> Shaun