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c. Click Operations Console.
By default, Operations Console does not automatically try to connect a local console on a network to
an iSeries server. If you selected Start connection when Operations Console starts in Properties, the
local console connects to the iSeries server automatically. The connection status shows Connecting
before changing to Connecting Console.
2. If you did not select Start connection when Operations Console starts in Properties, you need to
connect to the server as follows:
a. Select the configuration name.
b. From the Connection menu, click Connect.
3. In the LAN Service Device Sign-on window, sign on using the access password that allows the server
to access your service device information. You also have to provide your assigned service tools user
ID and password.
Operations Console needs a valid access password, service tools user ID, and service tools password
to authorize the connection between the local console and server. For more information, see Service
Tools. For a visual of this concept, see Secure your Operations Console configuration.
After you sign on successfully, the connection status shows Connected.
4. Confirm that the console and remote control panel, if configured, appear.
If you encounter other status messages, see Troubleshoot status messages for their descriptions and
possible solutions to the problems they describe.
To use your PC to access another iSeries server, you need to Connect to another server.
Connect to another server: When using Operations Console you can have multiple configurations and
connect to several servers at the same time. Connecting to another server as a local console on a network
(LAN), a local console directly attached, or a remote console using dial-up support, allows you to work
with another server in your network or at a remote location. Operations Console only allows one directly
attached local console configuration but it allows more than one network or remote configuration.
It is assumed that the additional connection has already been created.
Perform the following steps to connect to another server:
1. On the Operations Console Connection window, select the configuration name that you want to
connect.
2. From the Connection menu, click Connect.
Notes:
1. If you have a local console directly attached to the server and one or more remote consoles
configured, you have to disconnect the currently connected configuration in order to make the
connection to another server. Operations Console does not support the local console directly attached
to the server and an outgoing remote console connection to be active at the same time.
2. If the PC you are using has multiple remote console configurations only one can be connected at a
time.
3. All supported PC operating systems can connect multiple network configurations at the same time
allowing a single PC to be the console for multiple systems or partitions.
Connect a local console directly attached to the server: Connecting a local console directly attached
with remote access allowed to a server allows remote consoles to connect to the server. It also allows
iSeries control to be automatically granted to the first requester or allows you to have control at the local
console to handle incoming control requests.
Perform the following steps to connect a local console directly attached to the server (with or without
remote access allowed):
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