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> HMC Commandline February 14, 2010 How to use the HMC Commandline This documents contains the most important HMC commands. It covers both, the old power4 commands (up to HMC Version 3) and the new power5 style commands (HMC Ve rsion 4-6). A lot of nice commands still available for version 3 (power4) are re moved from newer releases. One example of these nice commands is lslpars and it' s not available for HMC version 4 and higher. The real reason behind it is that IBM wants to force us to use the web based tools wsm and WebSM or the new HMC br owser GUI. This documents helps you to survive with the HMC commands in case wor king with the web based tools is not feasible. In the examples below we call a whole power4 or power5 frame (aka Managed System ) pserver. We call an LPAR mylpar. If an example output shows more than one LPAR name we enumerate it. LPAR Profiles are shown as myprofile. You have to replace these names with your object names. If you use power6 systems, you need the new HMC version7. Although the GUI has c hanged from wsm to a browser based service, the commandline remains compatible. You can just use the power5 examples for power6. Contents HMC Version LPAR Status Reboot the HMC Soft Reset of an LPAR Soft Reset of a Systems Running in FullPartitionMode Hard Reset of an LPAR Hard Reset of a Systems Running in FullPartitionMode Virtual Console Show Status and LED/LCD Display of an LPAR Show Status and LED/LCD Display of a Systems Running in FullPartitionMode Activation of an LPAR How to Power on a System Running in FullPartitionMode Bring the key switch to position NORMAL How to change the HMC password (of user hscroot) Overview LPAR IDs Overview Connection State 1. HMC Version hscroot@hmc> lshmc -V Version: 3 Release: 3.2 HMC Build level 20040827.1 power4 HMCs could never show a version higher 3.x - HMC version 4.x and higher a re only for power5 systems. Power 6 systems need HMCs version 7.x. 2. LPAR Status That's how you get an overview of all systems controlled by your HMC: power4:

hscroot@hmc> lslpars power5: hscroot@hmc> lssyscfg -r sys -F name:serial_num:state pserver1:656D24A:Operating pserver2:656FFFF:Operating The format string 'lpar_id:name:serial_num:state' also tells you the serial numb er of the systems. You can omit the field 'serial_num' if you don't need to know . However, for every system from the list above you get the LPAR overview as shown below: hscroot@hmc> lssyscfg -m pserver -r lpar -F name:state Example: hscroot@hmc> lssyscfg -m pserver1 -r lpar -F name:state mylpar1:Running mylpar2:Running mylpar3:Not Activated Don't know where to start? Find the managed system to an LPAR with a query: hscroot@hmc> for m in $(lssyscfg -r sys -F name); do echo $m ; lssyscfg -r lpar -m $m -F name:state ; done 3. Reboot the HMC power4 + power5: hscroot@hmc> hmcshutdown -t now -r 4. Soft Reset of an LPAR power4: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -m pserver -r lpar -n mylpar -o reset power5: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -r lpar -m pserver -o shutdown -n mylpar 5. Soft Reset of a System Running in FullPartitionMode power4: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -n pserver -r sys -o reset 6. Hard Reset of an LPAR power4: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -m pserver -r lpar -n mylpar -o off

power5: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -r lpar -m pseries -o shutdown -n mylpar --immed 7. Hard Reset of a System Running in FullPartitionMode power4: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -n pserver -r sys -o off 8. Virtual Console That's how you get a connection to an LPAR's serial console: power4 + power5: hscroot@hmc> mkvterm -m pserver -p mylpar If your system is running in FullSystemPartition-Mode you connect with a command like this: power4: hscroot@hmc> mkvterm -m pserver You can escape from the console connection by typing ~~. (twice tilde followed b y a dot) If you cannot connect to the serial console and you get an error message instead : All available virtual terminal sessions have been opened and are in use. To force a new open session, perform a Close Terminal Session operation which frees up the session. there is still another active connection to this console. You can close this con nection with: power4 + power5: hscroot@hmc> rmvterm -m pserver -p mylpar 9. Show Status and LED/LCD Display of an LPAR power4: hscroot@hmc> lssyscfg -r lpar -m pserver -n mylpar power5: hscroot@hmc> lssyscfg -r lpar -m pserver --filter ""lpar_names=mylpar"" hscroot@hmc> lsled -m pserver -r sa -t virtuallpar --filter ""lpar_names=mylpar" " 10. Show Status and LED/LCD Display of a Systems Running in FullPartitionMode

power4: hscroot@hmc> lssyscfg -r sys -n pserver 11. Activation of an LPAR power4: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -r lpar -m pserver -o on [ -f myprofile ] -n mylpar power5: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -r lpar -m pserver -o on -f myprofile -n mylpar 12. How to Power on a System Running in FullPartitionMode power4: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -o on -r sys -n pserver -c full 13. Bring the key switch to position NORMAL This might be necessary on some power5 HMCs when an LPAR does not properly boot after issuing the power on command above. You might see a message like this: 0514-440 cfgcon: failed to create log file: check path name, permissions, and av ailable space When seeing this you can only access diag mode or boot the LPAR in singleuser mo de. This command sets the key switch back to normal position: power5: hscroot@hmc> chsysstate -r lpar -o chkey -k norm -n mylpar -m pserver 14. How to change the HMC password (of user hscroot) power4 + power5: hscroot@hmc> chhmcusr -u hscroot -t passwd Enter the new password: Retype the new password: 15. Overview LPAR IDs power5: hscroot@hmc> lssyscfg -r lpar -m pserver -F lpar_id:name:serial_num:state -n 1:vioserver1:Running 2:vioserver2:Running 3:mylpar1:Not Activated 4:mylpar2:Running 5:mylpar3:Running sort

6:mylpar4:Running 7:mylpar5:Running 8:mylpar6:Running 9:mylpar7:Running 10:mylpar8:Not Activated 16. Overview Connection State Are all service processors connected to my HMC? power5: hscroot@hmc> lssysconn -r all -F type_model_serial_num:ipaddr:state 9117-570*65AE18C:172.16.255.253:Connected 9117-570*65AE18C:172.16.254.255:Connected 9117-570*65AE2AC:172.16.255.254:Connected 9117-570*65AE2AC:172.16.254.254:Connected 9117-570*650D70D:172.16.255.252:Connected 9117-570*650D70D:172.16.253.255:Connected 9117-570*650D71D:172.16.254.253:Connected 9117-570*650D71D:172.16.255.251:Connected 9131-52A*065F7BB:172.16.253.254:Connected 9131-52A*065F8BA:172.16.254.252:Connected sort

The link to the name of the managed system is the serial number - not the IP add ress! The IP addresses listed above are mounted on the service processor's priva te NIC and managed by the integrated DHCP server of the HMC.