Date:
(C) Copyright International Business Machines
Corp., 2004 All rights reserved.
The information in this Readme contains hints and errata information about the Hardware Management Console. Please consult the HMC's technical support Web site for up to date information. (http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/hmc)
·
To launch
the browser, right mouse click on the desktop to bring up the menu. Select
"Net" and then "Browser".
·
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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Manage on Demand
Activation: Virtual Engine Technologies
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Additional supports for
Capacity on Demand (CoD): Capacity Upgrade on Demand
for memory, On/Off CoD for memory, Trial CoD for processors and memory, and
Reserve CoD for processors
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Virtual
I/O server partition: The Virtual I/O Server provides
virtual storage and shared Ethernet capabilities to client logical partitions
on the system.
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The lpar_type partition attribute used in the lssyscfg and mksyscfg commands has been renamed to lpar_env. It also supports a new value of vioserver for virtual I/O server partitions.
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The os_type
partition profile attribute used in the lssyscfg command has been renamed to lpar_env. It also has a new value of vioserver for virtual I/O server partition profiles.
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The shared_proc_capable system attribute used in the lssyscfg command has been renamed to micro_lpar_capable.
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The cpc
and cpcpower values supported for the –t option for the lslic
and updlic commands have been renamed to sys and syspower, respectively.
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The
following commands have been added:
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chsacfg – changes the Service Agent customer
email notification configuration
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chvet – performs activation of Virtualization
Engine systems technologies on a managed system
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cpdump – copies managed system dumps from the
HMC to DVD or a remote FTP site
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lssacfg – lists Service Agent configuration
information
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lsvet – lists Virtualization Engine systems
technologies information for a managed system
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viosvrcmd – issues a command to a virtual I/O
server partition
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The chcod
and lscod commands have been enhanced to support the new Capacity on Demand
(CoD) functions, including Capacity Upgrade on Demand for memory, On/Off CoD
for memory, Trial CoD for processors and memory, and Reserve CoD for
processors.
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An option
has been added to the chsysstate command to recover partition data for a
managed system.
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Options have
been added to the chhmc command to manage Network Time Protocol
service.
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An option
has been added to the lshmc command to display the HMC’s BIOS level.
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An option
has been added to the lsdump command to display managed system dumps
that reside on the HMC.
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The default
directory for profile data backup files used by the bkprofdata and rstprofdata commands has been changed to
/var/hsc/profiles/<serial-number>, where <serial-number> is the
serial number of the managed system.
Known Issues:
·
If a checkstop occurs on
the managed system and the system recovers, but access to that managed system's
virtual terminal is lost, do the following to restore the virtual terminal:
1. On the HMC, right click on the managed system name
that lost the virtual terminal.
2. From the pop-up menu, select "Reset or Remove
Connection".
3. Then select "Reset Connection" and click OK.
·
Dynamic partition
configuration for memory move can take a while. During that time, no other
operation can be performed.
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When
selecting multiple I/O slots for dynamic partition configuration, it will stop
on the first failure.
·
After
configuring your network setting, make sure to reboot your HMC. Otherwise,
dynamic logical partitioning for AIX/Linux partitions may not work.
· 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.
· Korean input is not supported.
· Traditional and Simplified Chinese input
is supported. 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
· 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.
· Power On/Off Unit function under Service
Focal Point -> Service Utilities is in English only.
· The table below indicates which locales are supported and are not supported for each of the 15 languages in which the V4 R1 HMC is currently available.
Note:
For each of the locales that is not supported in the V4 R2 HMC the numeric,
date, time, calendar and currency formats that are specific to a given locale
may not be displayed as expected.
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Languages |
Supported or Not Supported |
Locales |
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English |
Supported: |
en_US, en_GB |
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Not Supported: |
en_GB@euro, en_AU, en_BE, en_BE@preeuro,
en_CA, en_HK,
en_INe, en_IE, en_IE@preeuro, en_NZ, en_PH, en_PK, en_ZA, en_SG |
|
German |
Supported: |
de_DE, de_DE@euro, de_CH |
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Not Supported: |
de_AT, de_AT@euro, de_LU, de_LU@euro |
|
French |
Supported: |
fr_FR, fr_FR@euro, fr_CH, fr_CA, fr_BE, fr_BE@euro |
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|
Not Supported: |
fr_LU, fr_LU@euro |
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Italian |
Supported: |
it_IT, it_IT@euro |
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Not Supported: |
it_CH |
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Spanish |
Supported: |
es_ES, es_ES@euro |
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Not Supported: |
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 |
|
|
Not Supported: |
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Japanese |
Supported: |
ja_JP |
|
|
Not Supported: |
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Simplified Chinese |
Supported: |
zh_CN |
|
|
Not Supported: |
zh_SG |
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Traditional Chinese |
Supported: |
zh_TW |
|
|
Not Supported: |
zh_HK |
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Korean |
Supported: |
ko_KR |
|
|
Not Supported: |
|
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Hungarian |
Supported: |
hu_HU |
|
|
Not Supported: |
|
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Dutch |
Supported: |
nl_NL, nl_NL@euro, nl_BE, nl_BE@euro |
|
|
Not Supported: |
|
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Russian |
Supported: |
ru_RU |
|
|
Not Supported: |
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Czech |
Supported: |
cs_CZ |
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|
Not Supported: |
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Slovakian |
Supported: |
sk_SK |
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|
Not Supported: |
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· After a user creates an LPAR, if the LPAR
is not included in the user's Managed Resource Role(s), the user won't be able
to manage or even view the LPAR in
this version of HMC.
· 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.