To create a local console on a network (LAN), follow these
steps.
- Click to start Operations
Console.
Note: If no configuration exists, a setup wizard
automatically starts. If Operations Console has a previous configuration,
it opens with the existing configurations and does not start the setup
wizard. In such a case, click Connection and
select New Connection to start the setup wizard
manually.
- In the Welcome window, click Next.
- If you get the Configure Operations Console Connection
dialog, click Next. If you do not
want to see this dialog again, you can select the Do not
ask me again option before clicking Next.
- On the Select Configuration window,
leave Local console on a network (LAN) selected.
Then, click Next.
- On the Specify Service Host Name window, enter the service
host name (service interface name) of the system or partition you
want to connect to.
To create the service host name
(service interface), use one of the following ways:
- Manually assign the name along with the network configuration
using the current console or another workstation.
- Let the PC assign the name and IP information.
Click Next to allow the system to search
for the system on the network. If the PC receives information back
from the network or the target service interface, the Service
TCP/IP Address shows the IP address returned.
- Verify the IP address shown is correct, and then click Next.
- Verify or supply data for all the required fields. Then,
click Next.
Partition
numbering starts at 1.
- If this is the first console connection to the system,
accept the default QCONSOLE service tools device ID provided in the
field. If you have created a specific service tools device ID for
this configured connection, enter it now. Then, click Next.
This takes you to the Complete window.
- Click Finish to save the configuration
and exit the setup wizard.
If you plan to use the remote control panel
function with this configured connection, you need to make a successful
connection before you can select the option in Properties.
This allows Operations Console to determine that the service tools
device ID being used for this connection has permission to the remote
control panel functions on the system.
Note: You no longer have
to assign an access password. Operations Console has made this assignment
and will automatically manage it. If, however, you elect to change
this password in Properties, you will take
control from Operations Console and you will have to manually enter
it when prompted at the time of a connection. See Operations Console
simplification for more information.