Register an ID

Use this window to request authorization for Electronic Service Agent (TM). Electronic Service Agent associates your system with a user ID and allows access to system information through the Electronic Service Agent facility. This registration is also used by your operating system to automate service processes for your AIX or i5/OS operation system.

For more information, see the Service Management section in the Operations Guide for the Hardware Management Console.

When you are authorized for Electronic Service Agent, you can use the Internet to view all hardware and software related information about your system. This information includes trends in performance data and Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) usage, installed hardware and software, software fixes (PTFs), networking configuration, communication configuration, and system settings.

The following conditions apply when requesting authorization:

Type up to two IBM user IDs that you registered on the IBM Registration web site, one in each field. These user IDs are email addresses used as user IDs and must match those submitted on the IBM Registration web site.

By associating this HMC with an IBM user ID, you can use IBM Electronic Services on the web site to:

After you register your IBM user ID and your HMC with the IBM Electronic Services site, you can access the system information of the systems the HMC manages from the web site. This means you can go to the web site, sign in with your IBM user ID and specify this HMC name to view reports about the systems that the HMC manages, connected only to the Internet, without being connected to the HMC.

To view system details and perform user ID maintenance, go to: http://www.ibm.com/support/electronic.

You can find more detailed help on the following elements of this window:

Web authorization

IBM ID

Optional IBM ID