Hello all. I'm new to AIX and IBM hardware and I have a question around the configuration of the service processor on the power series. I need to know:
1) How do I get into the service processor from the serial console when AIX is up and running. I come from the Sun world and I tried all I know. How do I break out of the AIX login prompt and get back into the SP. The server is currently in use else I would just reboot, so I need to know how to get into it without disturbing users.
2) Can you configure the SP from within AIX? I need to enable the HMC ports and some systems I have I don't know their Ip and unfortunately they are static. So the default IP is not set. Or if there is a way to "reset" the SP without bringing down the system I'd like to know that.
I just find the IBM docs so overwhelming and hard to find any info. And google in regards to IBM and AIX always comes first on searches. So I'm just finding IBM info and not from reg users.
Any help you can give this AIX newbee would be great.
Thanks!