Adding a managed system

Before you begin, you must assign an IP address or host name to the service processor on the managed system. You can manually assign an IP address to the service processor by using the Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI), or you can use a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server on the open network to assign an IP address to the service processor. If you want to reuse an IP address that was previously used by the service processor of a different managed system, ensure that you remove the connection to the other managed system from the Contents area of the HMC before you use this window to add the new managed system. You can remove the connection to the other managed system by using the Reset or Remove Connection task.

You can add a managed system either by entering the IP address or host name or by searching a range of IP addresses. If you enter a range of IP addresses, the HMC searches the range of IP addresses and displays the managed systems that it finds within that range. You can then select the managed systems to which you want to connect.

If you enter the IP address or host name for a specific managed system, you can also enter the password for that managed system here. The HMC stores the password so that the HMC does not need to prompt you for the password when you work with the managed system.

To add managed systems in the network to the list of systems managed by this HMC, do the following: