IBM 6.00E+04, 6C4 manual Call-Out Call-Home

Call-Out (Call-Home)

Note: The call-out function is handled by the Service Focal point application on the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

The service processor can call out (call-home) when it detects one of the following conditions:

vSystem firmware surveillance failure

vOperating system surveillance failure (if supported by operating system)

vRestarts

vCritical hardware failure

vAbnormal operating system termination

To enable the call-out feature, do the following:

1.Connect a modem to any serial port.

2.Set up the following using the service processor menus or diagnostic service aids: v Enable call-out for the serial port where the modem is connected.

vEnter the modem configuration file name.

vSet up site-specific parameters (phone numbers for call-out, call-out policy, number of call-out retries, and so on).

3.To call out before restart, set Call-out before restart to ENABLED from the Reboot/Restart Policy Setup menu.

Note: Some modems, such as IBM 7857-017, are not designed for the paging function. Although they can be used for paging, they will return an error message when they do not get the expected response from another modem. Therefore, even though the paging was successful, the error message will cause the service processor to retry, continuing to place pager calls for the number of retries specified in the call-out policy setup menu. These retries result in redundant pages.

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