Hardware Management Console Installation and Operations Guide
This chapter contains information about installing the HMC and configuring
the service software.
Perform the following to install your HMC.
Caution:
Follow handling precautions provided with the unit.
Position the HMC and monitor at or near their desired location, using the
following guidelines:
- Use caution when lifting or moving the HMC.
- Use caution when lifting or moving the monitor.
- Leave enough space around the HMC to safely and easily complete the setup
procedures.
- Be sure to maintain at least 51 mm (2 inches) of space on the sides of the
system unit and 152 mm (6 inches) at the rear of the system unit to allow the
system unit to cool properly. The front of the system requires a
minimum of 76 mm (3 inches) of space. Blocking the air vents can cause
overheating, which might result in a malfunction or permanent damage to the
system unit.
- Place the HMC in a location where all necessary power outlets and network
connections can safely be reached.
- Place the monitor in a stable and sturdy location.
Use the following steps to connect the cables to your HMC. Look for
the small icons on the back of your HMC, which show where to attach the cables
for the keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
- Attach the monitor cable to the monitor connector, and tighten the
screws.
- If a label for the monitor was shipped with your system, attach the label
to the bottom-right corner of the monitor.
- Attach the power cord to the monitor (item 1 in the following
illustration). If the HMC has a voltage switch, ensure that it is in
the correct position for the supply voltage.
Attention: Do not plug the power cords into the
electrical outlet at this point.
- Connect the mouse and keyboard to their connectors.
- Connect the HMC serial cable to serial port HMC1 on the primary I/O
book. For two HMCs, connect the redundant HMC into serial port HMC2 on
the primary I/O book. The following illustration shows the location of
the serial ports on the back of the HMC and the HMC connectors located on the
primary I/O book.
1
| Primary Rack
| 4
| Primary HMC Connected to serial port HMC1* in Primary I/O Book
|
2
| Primary I/O Book
| 5
| Optional Second HMC Connected to Serial Port HMC2* in Primary I/O Book
|
3
| Power Plug to External Power Source (wall plug)
|
| * May be labeled HSC1 and HSC2
|
The part numbers for the serial cables for the HMC are as follows:
Part Number and Description
| Position
|
Part Number 11P3955 6m cable
| 9 Position to 9 Position
|
Part Number 11P3956 15m cable
| 9 Position to 9 Position
|
Part Number 31L7196 15m cable
| 9 Position to 25 Position
|
If you are using any optional 8-port adapters, connect the cables to the
appropriate connectors in slots 1 through 4, as shown in the following
illustration.
To connect the external HMC modem, do the following:
- Connect the modem cable to the external HMC modem.
- Connect the other end of the modem cable to serial port 2.
- Connect the phone cable line port of the external modem.
- Connect the other end of the phone cable to the analog jack on your
wall.
Check the microswitch settings on the modem. The settings should be
as follows:
Switch
| Position
| Function
|
1
| Up
| Force Data Terminal Ready (DTR)
|
2
| Up
| Hardware Flow Control (&E4)
|
3
| Down
| Result Codes Enabled
|
4
| Down
| Modem Emulation Disabled
|
5
| *Down
| Auto Answer Disabled
|
6
| Up
| Maximum Throughput Enabled
|
7
| Up
| Ready to Send (RTS) Normal Functions
|
8
| Down
| Enable Command Mode
|
9
| Down
| Remote Digital Loopback Test Enabled
|
10
| Up
| Dial-Up Line Enabled
|
11
| Down
| Asynchronous Terminal (AT) Responses Enabled (Extended Responses Enabled)
|
12
| *Down
| Asynchronous Operation
|
13
| UP
| 28.8 KB Line Speed
|
14
| Up
|
|
15
| Up
| Carrier Detect (CD) and Data Set Ready (DSR) Normal Functions
|
16
| Up
| 2-Wire Leased Line Enabled
|
- Note:
- * Only switches 5 and 12 are changed from the factory default
settings.
|
The LAN cable is recommended because each active partition reports errors
to the HMC's Service Focal Point application through the LAN
network. The HMC must be attached to the system's LAN, and each
partition should have a LAN adapter assigned as a resource.
Connect the LAN to the adapters assigned to each partition and to the LAN
connection on the HMC system hardware.
- Plug in the power cord, as shown in the following illustration.
- Plug the power cords for the monitor, HMC, and modem into electrical
outlets.
Use the steps in this section to start using your HMC.
During the system boot, you are prompted to change the HMC keyboard
settings. If you do not take any action, this prompt times out in 30
seconds and defaults to an English keyboard setting. If you only want
to use an non-English keyboard setting, you can select the language you want
and disable this prompt for future sessions.
The HMC is shipped with a predefined user ID and password. Both the
user ID and password are case-sensitive and must be typed exactly as
shown. This default user ID and password are as follows:
- ID: hscroot
- Password: abc123
When the console is powered on for the first time, use this user ID to log
in. For more information about user management and roles, see User Management. This hscroot user ID is a member of the System
Administrator role.
After you power on your HMC, the HMC login window displays, and prompts you
to enter your user ID and password.
To restrict access, change the predefined hscroot password
immediately. To change the predefined hscroot password, do the
following:
- In the Navigation area (the area on the left side of the screen), click
the User icon.
- In the Contents area (the area on the right side of the screen),
right-click the hscroot icon.
- Select Change Password.
- Type the new password in the first field.
- Confirm the new password by typing it again in the Retype new
password field.
The HMC is shipped with the following predefined root-user password:
passw0rd
The root-user ID and password cannot be used to log in to the
console. However, the root-user ID and password are needed to perform
some maintenance procedures.
To control access to the HMC, do the following:
- In the Navigation area (the area on the left side of the screen), select
the User icon.
- In the Contents area (the area on the right side of the screen),
right-click the root icon.
- Select Change Password.
- Type the new password in the first field.
- Confirm the new password by typing it again in the Retype new
password field.
You can use the HMC interface to check your current HMC software
version.
To check, do the following:
- Log in to the HMC as hscroot or as a user with System
Administrator role.
- At the top of HMC interface, select Help.
- Select About Hardware Management Console. A window opens
that displays HMC software-level information.
For more information about updating the HMC code, see Upgrading the HMC Software.
After you have logged in and changed both passwords, you are ready to
create additional HMC users. The additional users can be assigned
different roles to control their access to different HMC tasks. For
more information about user management and roles, see User Management.
If you replace the HMC hard drive, you must re-install the HMC
interface. To re-install the HMC interface, do the following:
- Power on your HMC.
- When the HMC reboots, a window opens with the following options:
Select the Install/Recovery option by pressing
F8.
- Press F1 to confirm.
- When the installation is complete, the DVD ejects from the drive.
Remove the Recovery CD from the drive and close the DVD-RAM drive.
Press Enter to reboot HMC.
- Note:
- If there is a modem installed, ensure that it is powered on.
- When the HMC reboots, if the KUDZU screen opens, immediately
start the Hardware Discovery Utility.
- For each Hardware Removed window (if any), click Remove
Configuration. This task logically removes hardware devices from
the system configuration.
- For each Hardware Added window, click
Configure. This task configures the devices. Most
devices, such as modems, will require no additional settings. Added
devices like an Ethernet adapter will prompt you to migrate to an existing
network. If this occurs, click Migrate Existing
Network.
- The Keyboard Mapping Section window opens. There is a
timer on the keyboard mapping selection screen. Select an applicable
keyboard option for your locale. You can also select an appropriate
language for your HMC interface. For more information about changing
the HMC interface language, see Changing the HMC Interface Language.
- When the HMC finishes booting, reconfigure the HMC. For more
information about configuring the HMC, see System Configuration. If you recorded the rexec, ssh, or scheduled
operation facilities, reset them now.
This section describes how to upgrade the HMC software to the latest
release level. If you recently purchased your HMC, it is preinstalled
with the latest software.
If you need to upgrade the HMC software and do not follow these steps, you
will lose the HMC's configuration settings when the new software is
installed. Before performing any upgrade task, you must perform the
Backup Critical Console Data task to save the current state of the HMC
software to DVD.
Software upgrades on the HMC can be performed in two ways:
- Between major releases you can perform the Install Corrective Service task
to update the HMC software. For more information about performing this
task, see Installing Corrective Service for the HMC.
- To upgrade, you must perform an upgrade procedure. This upgrade
process involves a series of steps that ensures that configuration settings
such as network configuration are saved and restored after the upgrade
operation.
To upgrade the HMC software from one release to another, do the
following:
To prepare your HMC for the upgrade, you must record configuration
information and back up console information. To prepare for the
upgrade, do the following:
First, you must determine your current HMC software version. To
check, do the following:
- Login to the HMC as hscroot or as a user with System Administrator
role. For more information about user tasks and roles, see User Management.
- Select Help at top of HMC console.
- Select About Hardware Management Console.
A window opens that displays HMC software-level information. If you
do not have Version 3, continue with the following steps.
Before you upgrade to the new version, you must first write down HMC
configuration information. To record HMC configuration information, do
the following:
- In the Navigation area, click the HMC Maintenance
folder.
- In the Navigation area, select System Configuration.
- In the Contents area, select Scheduled Operations. The
Scheduled Operations window opens.
- Select Sort.
- Select By Object.
- Select each object. Record the following details:
- Object Name
- Schedule Date
- Operation Time (displayed in 24-hour format)
- Repetitive. If repetitive is YES, do the
following:
- Select View.
- Select Schedule Details.
- Record the interval information.
- Close the Scheduled Operations window.
- Repeat the previous step for each scheduled operation.
- Close the Scheduled Operations window.
- Back up the managed system information and record the backup file names
for each managed system. In the Navigation area, click the Server
and Partition folder.
- In the Contents area, double-click Server Management.
- In the Contents area, right-click the managed system and select
Profile Data -> Backup.
- Type a backup file name and record this information.
- Click OK.
- Repeat steps 11-13 for each managed system.
- Check the rexec and ssh settings. In the
Navigation area, click the Software Maintenance icon.
- In the Navigation area, click the System Configuration
icon.
- In the Contents area, click Enable/Disable Remote Command
Execution.
- Record the settings of the following two options:
- Enable remote command execution using the rexec facility
- Enable remote command execution using the ssh facility
For more information about using these facilities, refer to the
documentation shipped with your operating system.
Next, you must back up critical console information. To back up
critical console information, do the following:
- If you previously backed up the HMC during the HMC software installation,
remove the old label from the DVD.
- Ensure that the DVD is not write protected by examining the switch in the
lower-left corner on the front. The switch should be in the lower
position.
- Insert either the DVD into the HMC's DVD-RAM drive.
- In the Contents area, click Backup Critical Console
Data.
- Click Continue and wait for the HMC to complete the
task.
- Click OK.
- Remove the DVD from the drive and write the date, time and code level on
the DVD.
This section describes how to upgrade your HMC interface.
- Log in to your HMC as hscroot.
- In the Navigation area, double-click the Software Maintenance
folder.
- In the Contents area, select HMC.
- In the Contents area, click Save Upgrade Data.
- Click Hard Drive.
- Click Continue.
- Select Continue again to start the task. Wait for the
task to complete. If the Save Upgrade Data task fails, contact software
support before proceeding. Do not continue the upgrade
process if the Save Upgrade Data task fails.
- Click OK.
- Insert the HMC Recovery CD into the DVD-RAM drive.
- Reboot the HMC Console. Select Console menu option, then
select Exit.
- Click Exit now.
- The Exit Hardware Management Console window opens. Click
Reboot Console.
- When the HMC reboots, a window opens with the following options:
Select the Upgrade option by pressing F1.
- Press F1 again to confirm.
- When the upgrade is complete, the DVD ejects from the drive. Remove
the Recovery CD from the drive and close the DVD-RAM drive. Press
Enter to reboot the HMC.
- Note:
- If there is a modem installed, ensure that it is powered on.
- When the HMC reboots, if the KUDZU screen appears, immediately
press Enter to start the Hardware Discovery Utility.
- For each Hardware Removed window (if any), click Remove
Configuration. This task logically removes hardware devices from
the system configuration.
- For each Hardware Added window, click
Configure. This task configures the devices. Most
devices, such as modems, require no additional settings. Added devices
such as an Ethernet adapter will prompt you to migrate to an existing
network. If this occurs, click Migrate Existing
Network.
- The Keyboard Mapping Section window opens. There is a
timer on the keyboard mapping selection screen. Select an applicable
keyboard option for your locale.
- When the HMC finishes booting, reconfigure the new version. For
more information about configuring the HMC, see System Configuration. If you recorded the rexec,
ssh, or scheduled operation facilities, reset them now.
Perform the following steps to configure your managed system for
service.
- Complete the required planning information in Planning for
Partitioned-System Operations.
- Log in to the HMC.
- Configure the HMC's date and time. For more information about
setting the HMC's date and time, see Setting and Viewing the Console Date and Time.
- Configure the network settings on your HMC. For more information
about setting up the network, see Customizing Network Settings.
- Reboot the HMC. For more information about rebooting the HMC, see Shutting Down, Rebooting and Logging Out of the HMC.
- Create a partition and install an operating system on it. For more
information about creating partitions, see Creating Logical Partitions. For more information about installing an operating
system on a partition, refer to the installation information shipped with your
operating system.
- Verify that Service Focal Point is operating properly by generating a test
error. For more information about testing Service Focal Point's
error reporting, see Testing Error Reporting.
- Configure the Inventory Scout application. For more information
about configuring Inventory Scout, see FORM='TEXTONLY'..
- Configure the Service Agent application. For more information about
configuring Service Agent, see FORM='TEXTONLY'..
A service representative can install firmware upgrades on the managed
server. Firmware upgrades are done at the system level, not on a
per-partition basis. A firmware upgrade can be performed from a
partition that is running AIX or from the service processor menus.
When partitions are being created, it is recommended that one partition be
given service authority. Service technicians use the partition
designated as having service authority to perform system firmware upgrades and
set other system policy parameters without having to power off the managed
system. All other partitions must be shut down before the firmware
upgrade is initiated.
The partition that has service authority must also have access to the
firmware upgrade image. If the firmware upgrade image is going to be
read from diskettes, the diskette drive must be assigned to the partition that
has service authority. If you are downloading the firmware upgrade from
the network, download it to the partition that has service authority.
For more information about how to set service authority on a partition,
read Setting Service Authority.
If you powered on with the Full System Partition, you do not have to take
additional steps to prepare for firmware upgrades.
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