[Todd_1215]

Hello all,

I have a very strange issue going on here with my v7 HMC. Recently we changed networks that the management interface was on After changing the IP address and rebooting the web based console will not finish intializing. When we point the browser to the HMC and click the Login Link all I get is the following message:

"Console not Ready

You cannot log on at this time. The console is still initializing and is not yet ready for users to login. Allow the console to finish initializing and then try to login again."


I can access the HMC command line via SSH but I don't know what to check to try and determine why the console isn't finishing initializing.


This is kind of critical because I can't change the IP's of the running LPAR's until I can get to the web console.



What could possibly be wrong?

[ross.mather]

lshmc -n will show you the networking information from the command line.

And you can make changes using chhmc from the command line as well.

Its worth getting a pesh password and checking that the HMC doesn't have a full filesystem. And try rebooting the HMC again.

If you go to the physical HMC can you access it from the console?

You will provbably be quicker to just reinstall the HMC rather than spending hours and hours trying to debug it....

[Todd_1215]

yeah I tried running lshmc but all I got was a "connection refused" error message or something like that. I didn't want to have to reinstall the HMC but at this point you might be right. A reinstall might be quicker.

Thanks for the speedy reply.