Service tools user IDs and passwords

Service tools are used to configure, manage, and service your IBM^® iSeries™ model 270 or 8xx or logical partitions. If you want to manage logical partitions on servers other than model 8xx, you must use the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

Service tools can be accessed from dedicated service tools (DST) or system service tools (SST). Service tools user IDs are required to access DST, SST, and to use the iSeries Navigator functions for logical partition (LPAR) management and disk unit management.

Service tools user IDs have been referred to as DST user profiles, DST user IDs, service tools user profiles, or a variation of these names. Within this topic collection, the term service tools user IDs is used.

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