IBM System z Hardware Management Console (HMC) Operations

Course Code: ES24G
Duration: 16 Hours
Price: INR 33600.00

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Course Description

  • This course teaches you navigation, operation, and recovery techniques for the Hardware Management Console (HMC) in the System z environment. Through lecture and hands-on exercises, you learn setup and operating procedures for the HMC, gain in-depth problem determination skills, practice HMC operations, and utilize recovery capabilities provided by the System z servers.

Objectives

  • Identify the zEnterprise 196 and 114, System z10, System z9, and zSeries servers

    Describe the major differences of the function and features between the System z servers

    Describe and explain the concept of logical partitioning

    Identify how various resources are assigned to LPARs during initialization

    Describe the functions provided by the HMC and SE

  • User interface styles, local and remote connectivity

  • Identify HMC home page to log on HMC application

    Use the classic UI to:

  • Log on and log off
  • Open objects
  • Navigate the HMC workplace using various selection techniques
  • Exit a task on a window
  • View the online books and use the Help functions
  • Identify the different types of groups
    • CPC group, control hardware
    • Images group, control operating system
  • Build new CPC and images groups
  • Identify the contents of the Details window and determine object status
  • Identify the various task lists

  • Use the tree UI to:

  • Log on and log off
  • Open objects
  • Navigate the HMC workplace using various selection techniques
  • Exit a task on a panel
  • View the online books and use the Help functions
  • Identify the different types of groups
    • CPC group, control hardware
    • Images group, control operating system
  • Build new CPC and images groups
  • Identify the contents of the Details window and determine object status
  • Identify the various task lists

  • Retrieve the hardware messages from the log

    Use the HMC Operating System Messages task to display and send messages to the operating system

    Describe the functions that require the use of the access administrator ID

    Use the HMC to perform access administrator related tasks

    Describe the purpose, functions, and use of the different types of activation profiles

  • Reset profile
  • Image profile
  • Group profile
  • Load profile

  • Use the HMC to build new profiles, modify, view, or delete existing ones

    Use the HMC to determine or change profile assignments Provide operational recommendations for HMC user settings

    Use the HMC to perform

  • A manual load operation
  • A system reset
  • Problem determination for a load failure

  • Invoke the system activity display and describe its purpose

    Establish an HMC/SE session using the Single Object Operations task

    Identify the difference between the HMC and SE workplace

    Navigate using classic or tree UI to Identify CP, channel, and CHPID status for the physical CPC and all LPs

    Identify the entry point for I/O and Channel Problem Determination panels

    Log off from a CPC session

    Describe how exceptions are reported and presented on the HMC using the tree or classic UI

    Use the HMC to determine the type and cause of the exception

    Describe the three types of hardware messages that can surface on the HMC

    Use the HMC to determine the cause of the hardware message

Audience

  • This intermediate course is for operations personnel and technical staff who are directly involved in the installation, operation, systems support, and software support of their System z mainframe environment.

Prerequisites

  • You should have an understanding of:

  • Basic data processing and I/O concepts and terminology
  • z/OS console operation, including display of device, job, and console status

Content

  • Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Unit 1: IBM mainframe server hardware: Overview

  • Day 2

  • Review
  • Unit 5: Activation profiles and operational tasks
  • Unit 6: Single object operation: CPC session Supporting labs
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  • Unit 2: Using the HMC classic style user interface
  • Unit 3: Using the HMC tree style user interface
  • Unit 4: Using the HMC to monitor System z servers
  • Supporting labs