Management Ports Gone Wild
June 27th, 2008 Posted in IBMToday, I learned a very important lesson. That lesson was that management ports on IBM xSeries server do not provide network connectivity (at least not by default anyway). That’s right. Huge news flash, right?
Actually, the lesson was to have the technician on the other end of the phone make sure they aren’t plugging into the management port. Now, don’t take that the wrong way. He didn’t know any better than I and merely plugged the patch cable into the only RJ-45 port he could see.
So, as a reminder to myself to check the management port, I blog. Let that be a lesson to you. Then again, maybe we should ask ourselves what prompted the network connection to drop in the first place? I’ve already opened a ticket with IBM, because we thought the network port was dead. To that end, I’ll run DSA on Monday and see if IBM’s “Remote Technical Support in Atlanta, Georgia” can tell me anything about it.