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Prepare for your network environment
Plan for your minimum network configurations.
Secure your Operations Console configuration
Plan for your Operations Console network security.
Prepare for your Operations Console and iSeries Navigator configuration
Plan for how Operations Console works with iSeries Navigator.
Verify Operations Console requirements
Verify you have met the Operations Console hardware, software and cabling requirements.
Important:
v If you call a service representative to set up your new server, you must have the PC that you are going
to use as a console ready to be connected to your iSeries server. This includes having all cables ready
and all software installed. For example, you must already have your Windows operating system and
iSeries Access for Windows installed on the PC.
v If you are configuring Operations Console for an OS/400 partition running Linux, see Configure the
LAN console for a guest partition.
Console planning considerations
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This topic will present important considerations for planning an Operations Console for one or more
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servers.
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The following information applies to all servers:
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v Unlike previous versions of OS/400, V5R3 will only support the console type currently configured. If
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no console type is specified, such as when a new partition is being created, the supporting hardware
IOP found during the creation process takes precedence. If the supporting hardware contains more
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than one console type, then the first console workstation to connect will be configured to become the
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console.
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v There is also a new console option for V5R3 called Allow console to be taken over by another
console. The default value of the console option is disabled.
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– When the option is enabled:
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The first Operations Console device connected becomes the console. Additional LAN-connected
Operations Console devices will have a special DST signon.
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All other 5250-based connections will have the new Console Information Status window.
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Console recovery without the loss of the job is available.
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– When the option is disabled:
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All 5250-based connections will be presented the new Console Information Status window.
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Console recovery without the loss of the job is not available.
Operations Console, both direct attached and network (LAN), and twinaxial workstations, can coexist
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as console devices if you remember these rules:
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– Only one device can be active at a time.
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– A twinaxial workstation on any twinaxial work station controller with port 0 (address 0 or 1) or
with port 1 (address 0 or 1) can become a console device if twinaxial console is selected. If twinaxial
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console is selected as the console mode then Operations Console devices may not be started.
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v Operations Console allows multiple LAN connections to a single iSeries server, but only one 5250
session can have control of an iSeries server at a time. An active console is a command interface to an
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iSeries server (5250 emulation) that is currently interacting with the server. More than one Operations
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Console device may have data on the screen but only one is truly active.
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Operations Console
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