A scenario that discusses a situation in which you may want a single console attached to the server.
Your company owns an iSeries™ server and you want to use a PC to manage your server. You need one console directly connected to the iSeries server to physically access the console to manage your iSeries.
For this scenario, you should configure a local console directly attached to the server.
Advantages:
- The administrator will have access to his console in the event of a network failure. With a local console on a network configuration, a network failure will cause you to lose the ability to access your console.
- You can use this PC to become the iSeries console, to perform control panel functions, or both provided you have a control panel cable, and you set up control panel support.
- The console can be securely placed behind locked doors in the server room.
Disadvantages:
- You must be close to the server to manage or access the console.
- A console cable and a remote control panel cable is required to support their corresponding functions.
- This configuration does not support remote connections.
- This configuration does not support remote control panel function for logical partitions.
- Only one directly attached configuration is allowed per PC.