Find the IP addresses for the HMC from the front panel

The front panel of the HMC has three buttons ( selectselectselect) below it. When the machine is booted up, it shows a few lines of system information.  It has two modes; normal and maintenance.  In normal mode, you have one of 4 possible menus that you can display.  They are labelled 1,2,4 and 20.  You press the enter button select to toggle between displaying information and changing menus.  Menu 1 is an overall status, menu 2 allows you to change the service processor you want to work with (A or B, or just A) and also change the operating mode (N or M). In maintenance mode, you have menus labelled 1,2,3,4,7,8,20,25,26,30,42 and 43.  We are only interested in menu 30, which will show us the two ip addresses configured for the HMC to use.

First, put the HMC in manual mode.

 

01 N V=F HMC=1
                T

 

Push Enter select

 

01

Push Up Button select

02

Push Enter select

 

02 A<N
              T

Push Enter select

02 A N<
 T

Push Up Button select

 

02 A M<
 T

Push Enter select

02

(You are now in Maintenance Mode, if you were to go back to the home screen by going to 01 and pressing enter, you would see the M where the N used to be)

Next, go to section 30:

Push Up Button selectuntil you get to 30

30

 

Push Enter select

30**

Push Up Button select

3000

Push Enter select

SP A: ETH0 T6
192.168.254.253

 

Push Down Button select

3000

 

Push Down Button select

3001

Push Enter select

SP A: ETH1 T6
10.140.150.14

When you are done, you should probably change back to normal mode, go to menu 01, and press enter to leave the display showing what we see at the top of this post.

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