Operations Console is an installable component of iSeries™ Access for Windows®. It allows you to use your PC as the server console, perform control panel functions, or both.
With Operations Console, you can administer iSeries servers that are on your local area network (LAN). You can also remotely administer several iSeries servers at different locations, including other LANs. All traffic between the console and the iSeries server is encrypted to improve the security of the server.
Once a LAN based operations console has been set up, the same connection can be used to provide the Linux console. This has the advantage that all Linux console traffic will be encrypted between the iSeries server and the console.
To use the Operations Console LAN connection to provide the Linux console, use the same Telnet commands as described in Connect to the virtual console, however the commands must be run on the PC running the Operations Console, and a TCP/IP address of 127.0.0.1 and port 2301 should be used with the Telnet command. 127.0.0.1 is architected by TCP/IP to be the local server. This will cause the Telnet program to connect to the Operations Console program, which will in turn connect the Telnet client to the Linux console. See Connect the virtual console for more information.
If the Operations Console program is connected to more than one iSeries server, it is currently not possible to specify which server the Linux console connects to. It is recommended, therefore, that if Linux console support is being used, that the Operations Console client be connected to only one iSeries server at a time.
Using the Operations Console program to connect to the Linux console is an alternative to using a direct Telnet connection to the iSeries server.