ES24 IBM System Z Hardware Management Console (HMC) Operations

Description

Duration

2 Days

12 CPD hours

This course is intended for

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.

Overview

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

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 indepth problem determination skills, practice HMC operations, and utilize recovery capabilities provided by the System z servers.

WelcomeUnit 1: IBM mainframe server hardware: Overview Unit 2: Using the HMC classic style user interface Unit 3: Using the HMC tree style user interfaceUnit 4: Using the HMC to monitor System z servers Supporting labsReviewUnit 5: Activation profiles and operational tasksUnit 6: Single object operation: CPC session Supporting labs