Use this scenario to learn how to access the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and manage System p® servers remotely with remote shell access commands.
Customer has multiple remote administrators
In this scenario, the user has a large data center of System p servers with multiple administrators. Rather than forcing the administrators to go to the data center every time they want to manage the systems, the administrators can access the HMC and manage their systems remotely. The remote administrators enter a user ID and password to access the HMC. This shell access is restricted to a set of commands that can be used to manage the HMC and the servers that are managed by the HMC. The user can also use the remote scripting capability of Secure Shell (SSH) to run scripts on a local system that issues HMC management commands to the HMC, thus giving the user access to a full range of commands on the managed systems.
For more information about using the HMC remote command line and setting up secure script to run between SSH clients, see Using the HMC remote command line.