This section describes the high-level planning tasks you
must perform before you install and configure your HMC.
To plan for HMC installation and configuration,
do the following:
- Ensure that your HMC hardware meets the requirements to manage
your server and obtain and install the latest HMC code.
- Determine the physical location of the HMC in relation to the
servers it will manage. If the HMC is more than 7 meters (25 feet)
from its managed system, you must provide web browser access to the
HMC from the managed system's location so that service personnel can
access the HMC.
- Identify the servers that the HMC will manage.
- Determine whether you will use a private or an open network to
manage servers.
- If you will use an open network to manage a Flexible Service Processor
(FSP), you must manually set the FSP's address through the Advanced
System Management Interface (ASMI) menus. A private, nonroutable network
is recommended.
- If you have two HMCs, designate a primary and secondary HMC. The
primary HMC should be physically closer to the machine, and should
be the HMC that is configured to call home.
- Determine the network settings that you will need to connect the
HMC to remote workstations, logical partitions, and network devices.
- Define how the HMC will connect to use the call-home function.
Call home options include over an outbound-only Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) Internet connection, a modem, or a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
connection.
- Determine the HMC users that you will create and their passwords,
as well as which roles they will be given.
- Document the following company contact information that will be
needed when you configure call home:
- Company name
- Administrator contact
- E-mail address
- Telephone numbers
- Fax numbers
- The street address of the HMC's physical location
- If you plan to use e-mail to notify operators or systems administrators
when information is sent to IBM® Service through call-home function,
identify the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server and the e-mail
addresses you will use.
- Define the following passwords:
- The access password that will be used to authenticate the HMC
to the FSP
- The ASMI password that will be used for the admin user
- The ASMI password that will be used for the general user
Create the passwords when you connect from the HMC to a new server
for the first time. If the HMC is a redundant or second HMC, obtain
the HMC user password and be prepared to enter it when you connect
the first time to the managed server's FSP.
- For detailed information about the planning tasks you should complete
before performing a first-time installation, see Preparing
for HMC configuration .
Note: The Power® enterprise pools function requires
that the Hardware Management Console (HMC) must have at least 2 GB
of random access memory (RAM) installed.
Install the HMC hardware. To install the HMC
into a rack, see
Installing your rack-mounted HMC.
To install a stand-alone HMC, see
Installing your stand-alone HMC.
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