Inventory Scout Services - IBM p5 590 System Handbook

System Administrator
Advanced Operator
Service Representative
Operator
User Administrator
Viewer
Each role is described as follows:
System Administrator
The system administrator acts as the root user, or manager of the HMC
system. The system administrator has unrestricted authority to access and
modify most of the HMC system.
Advanced Operator
An advanced operator can perform some partition or system configuration
and has access to some user-management functions.
Service Representative
A service representative is the person who installs or repairs the system.
Operator
An operator is responsible for the daily system operation.
User Administrator
A user administrator can perform user management tasks, but cannot perform
any other HMC functions.
Viewer
A viewer can view HMC information, but cannot change any configuration
information.
A user ID also needs to be created for the software service representative so
they have access to perform fixes on the HMC code. This user ID is hscpe and it
must not be assigned to any other user. This user name is reserved for your
support representative and is considered a hidden role.

8.7 Inventory Scout services

The Inventory Scout is a tool that surveys managed systems for hardware and
software information. Inventory Scout provides an automatic configuration
mechanism and eliminates the need for you to manually reconfigure Inventory
Scout Services. Depending on the levels of your HMC and partition software, you
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