Rex, How are the machines connected, I saw OSA but , router ? A lot of routers have ping turned off. Secondly, Ping can be used via TSO, no problem , also Traceroute ..
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:20 PM, "Pommier, Rex R." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a couple questions about commands that can be run from the console. > > First of all, is there a console command that can be used to display the MAC > address of an OSA port? > > Second, is there a console command to ping an IP address out an OSA port? > > I scanned the manuals and didn't see anything for either of these. Here's > the situation. We're trying to bring up a new LPAR on a remote machine. > TCP/IP comes up, and it activates 1 of the 2 OSA ports we're supposed to be > using. But we can't ping into the LPAR, and can't find any command that we > could run from the console to see if we can ping out. Also, we are looking > for the MAC address of the 2 OSA ports to see if the switch is even seeing > them. > > As far as the HMC issue is, this is a z196 machine with a bunch of OSA cards > in it - 12 to be exact. But if I go to the HMC, and look at the OSA advanced > facility screen, only 5 OSAs show up on that screen. Shouldn't all the OSA > cards/ports show up on the HMC OSA ADV FAC screen? > > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > Rex > > The information contained in this e-mail may contain confidential and/or > privileged information and is intended for the sole use of the intended > recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this > communication is strictly prohibited and that you will be held responsible > for any such unauthorized activity, including liability for any resulting > damages. As appropriate, such incident(s) may also be reported to law > enforcement. If you received this e-mail in error, please reply to sender and > destroy or delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
