Customizing outbound connectivity
- Log on to the Hardware Management Console in ENSADMIN, SYSPROG, or SERVICE mode.
- Open the Customize Outbound Connectivity task:
- In the navigation pane in the left portion of the window, click Service Management.
- In the tasks pad in the bottom portion of the work pane, under Configuration, click Customize Outbound Connectivity.
The Call-Home Server Consoles window is displayed.
- Click Configure. The Outbound Connectivity Settings window is displayed.
- Ensure that Enable the local console as a call-home server is selected.
- Verify if connection is through a proxy server.
- If yes (from step 6 in Table 1), continue with step 6.
- If no, go to step 11.
- In the Address field, enter the IP address 9.60.12.45. In the Port field, enter the port address 8080 (use values from step 7 in Table 1).
- Determine whether the rules of the HTTP proxy configuration at the customer installation permit IP addresses to be used as the target of the mod_proxy (from step 10 in Table 1). If they are permitted, then select Resolve IBM® IP addresses on console.
- Check if proxy authentication is required.
- If no, (from step 8 in Table 1), go to step 11.
- If yes, continue with step 9.
- Select Use SSL Proxy Authentication . Enter the user name and password.
- In the Internet Protocol list, select IPv4 (from step 3 in Table 1). Most customers will connect to the IPv4 Internet only.
- Click Test. The Test Internet window is displayed.
- Click Start to verify that a broadband RSF connection can be made.
- A series of information messages display in the Test Status message box :
- If the connection is successful,
Test completed successfully
is displayed.Note: If there are as-yet-applied changes to the settings, the HMC will not run the test transaction. If the connection test was successful, it will still end with a "partial" successful overall. You can then return to the previous panel, Apply the changes, then re-run the Test, which will then perform the test transaction. - If the connection was not successful, record the error message and click Help. The Test Internet help window is displayed. Select Test Status. A list of common error messages are displayed. Follow the instructions on the window.