You can initiate a terminal or console session to the logical partitions on your managed
system using various methods. Your choice of terminal or console depends on your operating system
and business needs.
The following choices of terminal or console are
available for each operating system.
Table 1. Terminal and console options for logical partitions
| Operating system |
Terminal or console options |
| AIX® |
- Hardware Management Console (HMC)
- Telnet
- OpenSSH with OpenSSL (included in the AIX expansion pack)
- Direct serial connection (ASCII terminal or PC connected with
null modem cable)
- IBM® i virtual
console (for AIX logical
partitions that use IBM i resources)
- When on a system with a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) logical partition,
the console can be provided by the VIOS logical partition
when using VIOS 1.2.0
or later.
|
| Linux® |
- HMC
- Telnet
- OpenSSH with OpenSSL (included in the Linux distribution)
- Direct serial connection (ASCII terminal or PC connected with
null modem cable)
- IBM i virtual
console (for Linux logical
partitions that use IBM i resources)
- When on a system with a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) logical partition,
the console can be provided by the VIOS logical partition
when using VIOS 1.2.0
or later.
|
| Virtual I/O Server |
- Hardware Management Console (HMC)
- Telnet
- OpenSSH with OpenSSL (included in the AIX expansion pack)
- Direct serial connection (ASCII terminal or PC connected with
null modem cable)
- IBM i virtual
console (for AIX logical
partitions that use IBM i resources)
- When on a system with a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) logical partition,
the console can be provided by the VIOS logical partition
when using VIOS 1.2.0
or later.
|
The following choices of terminal are available
for AIX and Linux.
- Hardware Management Console (HMC)
- Telnet
- OpenSSH with OpenSSL (included in the AIX expansion pack or the Linux distribution)
- Direct serial connection (ASCII terminal or PC connected with
null modem cable)