Date:
(C) Copyright International Business Machines
Corp., 2005 All rights reserved.
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To
launch the browser, right mouse click on the desktop to bring up the menu.
Select "Net" and then "Browser".
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To
start a restricted shell terminal, right mouse click on the desktop to bring up
the menu. Select "Terminals" and then "rshterm".
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Currently, HMC only stores 4 service processor dumps and 4
platform system dumps per managed system.
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Changes of a partition profile do not apply to the partition immediately. The changes will only
take effect on the partition when activation is done through the profile.
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If users are interested in keylock
positions and SRC values when
performing
Operator Panel Service Functions through Service Focal Point, they can be viewed from the Server and
Partition plugin.
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To view system event logs, you must login as a user with
‘hmcpe’ role. From Service Applications, select Service Focal Point
-> Service Utilities -> Actions -> View Problem Logs.
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HMC Version 4
Release 2 or higher is required to manage pSeries
Power5 servers.
HMC Version 4 Release 3 and up now enables Ext3 File System. If you wish to take advantage of journaled file system, you must install or upgrade your HMC using the Version 4 Release 3 and up Recovery CDs.
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Server
Management:
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Provides support to configure Switch
Network Interface (SNI) adapters.
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Provides command line
function to list and force release the HMC lock on a managed frame.
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Provides support
for IO Concurrent Maintenance
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Improves
Backup Critical Console Data performance.
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The
following commands have been added:
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dlslic – queries the Licensed Internal
Code (LIC) level of each Power FRU
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lslock – lists which HMC owns the lock on
a managed frame
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rmlock –
forces an HMC lock on a managed frame to be released
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An
option has been added to the lslic command to list Licensed Internal Code
(LIC) on High Performance Switches.
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An
option has been added to the lshwinfo command to display ambient air
temperatures for the systems contained in a managed frame.
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An
option has been added to the lssvcevents command to display events that occurred
during a specified number of preceding minutes.
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An
option has been added to the updlic command to upgrade Licensed Internal Code (LIC) to a new release.
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An
option has been added to the updlic command to update LIC on High Performance
Switches.
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The following commands have been enhanced to support Switch
Network Interface (SNI) adapters: chsyscfg, lshwres, lssyscfg, and mksyscfg.
Known Issues:
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Dynamic partition
configuration for memory move can take a while. During that time, no other
operation can be performed on the partition.
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After configuring
your network setting, make sure to reboot your HMC. Otherwise, dynamic logical
partitioning for AIX/Linux partitions may not work.
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Users cannot
change virtual Opticonnect and HSL Opticonnect settings through the GUI without activating the
changes through a partition profile. Users can change the settings dynamically
through the command line interface.
Usage:
chhwres -m <managed system name> -r virtualio –-rsubtype virtualopti
-p <partition name> -o s –a “virtual_opti_pool_id=[0|1]”
Usage:
chhwres –m <managed system name> -r virtualio -–rsubtype hsl
–p <partition name> -o s –a “hsl_pool_id=[0|1]”
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Error messages
for some Dynamic Logical Partitioning tasks give ‘AIX’ as the
partition type even though it’s actually a Linux partition.
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Unable to perform
Dynamic Logical Partitioning virtual I/O remove operations if the partition
does not have a current profile.
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The HMC will display
the wrong device information since the feature code 2849 is used for two
different adapters :
OS/40 p Linux p AIX
PCI 100/10Mbps Ethernet IOA 2849 n/a n/a
PCI 2D Graphics Accelerator n/a 2849 2849
Only a visual
inspection of the slot on the machine will be able to determine if the adapter
is a Ethernet card or a Graphics card. Once the
partition is activated with the adapter in the profile, the description should
display proper adapter information.
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After
an FSP is replaced in a Power5 server, i5/OS partitions will not IPL properly
and get B2xx 3110 SRC and B2xx 3200 SCR’s since
the IPL Source is changed on the partition to D. On the HMC go to the Partition
Properties Panel and select the Setting tab and change the IPL Source value and
re-IPL the partition.
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If the HMC remote client loses its
connection while it is downloading firmware, the download fails. Retry the
operation “Change internal Code” might fail again with the message
“Object is busy, and the task cannot handle busy objects”. Reboot
the HMC and retry the “Change internal Code” operation.
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Updating
Licensed Internal Code on multiple Managed Systems in a p575 within the same
power frame can be updated simultaneously by using the following procedure:
1. Select one Managed System in each frame from the "Target
Option Selection" panel. This will update Licensed Internal Code on the Power Subsystem
and the selected Managed System.
2. Select the remaining Managed Systems in
all frames from the "Target Option Selection" panel. This will update Licensed Internal Code on
the remaining Managed Systems. The Power
Subsystem was already updated in Step 1 and will not be updated again.
Note that after
Licensed Internal Code has been updated in Step 1, the image is saved on the
HMC. The "disk" repository can
then be used for subsequent updates in Step 2.
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Recovery procedure when error message
“HSCF0052W Frame tttt-mmm*sssssss
is locked by another process.” Is shown when performing Licensed Internal
Code Update Operation on the p5 595, i5 595, p5 590 and
p5 575 managed systems, verify that no other frame operations that uses the
lock listed below:
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Repair and Verify Operation
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Initilaize
Frame Operation
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Ste Frame Number Operation
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Licensed Internal Code Update
· Mnemonics are not supported in double byte
and ru locales.
· The HMC uses several external components.
These components are not developed by the HMC team and are translated as part
of a separate translation plan and schedule. The mix of English and translated
text is an unavoidable situation and has the potential to occur anytime the HMC
is updated or pulls in a new version of an external application that is updated
in between its normally scheduled translation cycles.
· Due
to the limitation of groff, some characters in the
output of "man" command might be corrupted in traditional Chinese,
simplified Chinese and Korean when the window is too narrow. Widen the window
and retry the command again.
· Korean
input is supported. Press Shift-Space to switch between English and Korean
input mode.
· Traditional and Simplified Chinese input
is supported in zh_TW and zh_CN
locales. Press CTRL-Space to
switch between English and Chinese input
mode. Press CTRL-Shift to select an input method. Press space bar to see more
Chinese characters.
· Japanese input is supported. Press
Shift-Space to switch between English and Japanese input mode.
· User ID, User information, HMC User
password, Partition name, managed system name, profile name and system profile name are in English only.
· IBM275 doesn't work well when connecting
from IBM Personal Communications or iSeries Access to
an HMC. Use another Brazil codepage. The codepage "IBM930 Japan
Katakana" doesn't work well either. Use "IBM930 Japan Katakana
Extended" instead.
· An ibm5250 session opened on the HMC
locally will be in the same locale as the one that is set for the HMC. To open
a session in a different locale, change the HMC locale first, logout, login and
then invoke ibm5250. The other option is to connect to the HMC using a remote
emulator, e.g. IBM Personal Communications or iSeries
Access, in the desired locale.
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Languages |
Supported or Not Supported |
Locales |
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English |
Supported: |
en_US, en_GB, en_GB@euro, en_AU, en_BE, en_BE@preeuro, en_CA, en_HK, en_Ne, en_IE, en_IE@preeuro, en_NZ, en_PH, en_PK, en_ZA, en_SG |
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German |
Supported: |
de_DE, de_DE@preeuro, de_CH, de_AT, de_AT@preeuro, de_LU, de_LU@euro |
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French |
Supported: |
fr_FR, fr_FR@preeuro, fr_CH, fr_CA, fr_BE, fr_BE@euro, fr_LU, fr_LU@euro |
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Italian |
Supported: |
it_IT, it_IT@preeuro, it_CH |
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Spanish |
Supported: |
es_ES, es_ES@preeuro, es_AR, es_BO, es_CL, es_CO, es_CR, es_DO, es_EC,es_SV, es_GT, es_HN, es_MX, es_NI, es_PA, es_PY,es_PE, es_PR, es_US, es_UY,es_VE |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
Supported: |
pt_BR |
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Japanese |
Supported: |
ja_JP |
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Simplified Chinese |
Supported: |
zh_CN, zh_SG |
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Traditional Chinese |
Supported: |
zh_TW, zh_HK |
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Korean |
Supported: |
ko_KR |
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Hungarian |
Supported: |
hu_HU |
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Dutch |
Supported: |
nl_NL, nl_NL@preeuro, nl_BE, nl_BE@preeuro |
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Russian |
Supported: |
ru_RU |
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Czech |
Supported: |
cs_CZ |
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Slovakian |
Supported: |
sk_SK |
· Help Search is not supported. However,
Find is supported for Help.
· Printing is not supported.
· The numerical keypad on some keyboards
doesn't work. Use the normal numerical keys instead.
· When your power5 system is shipped to you it is in a
non-HMC managed mode by default. Once you attach and set up an HMC to manage
your power5 system, the default non-HMC managed mode is exited. The procedure
to return to the default non-HMC managed mode is documented on the InfoCenter website under “Resetting the server to a
non partitioned configuration”. The following link will redirect you to
the document.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2s/en_US/info/iphbl/iphblresetserver.htm