IBM System z Hardware Management Console (HMC) Operations

This course teaches you navigation, operational, and recovery techniques for the Hardware Management Console in the System z environment. Through lecture and hands-on exercises, you learn setup and operating procedures for the Hardware Management Console (HMC), gain in-depth problem determination skills, practice HMC operations, and utilize recovery capabilities provided by the System z servers.

Training Paths that reference this course are:

z/OS Operation and Parallel Sysplex

z/OS Installation, Tuning, JES, and REXX Programming and Problem Diagnosis

Operations personnel and technical staff who are directly involved in the installation, operation, systems support, and software support of their System z mainframe environment.

You should have an understanding of: Basic data processing and I/O concepts and terminology z/OS console operation, including display of device, job, and console status

1. Day 1
1. Welcome
2. Unit 1: IBM mainframe server hardware: Overview
3. Unit 2: Using the HMC classic style user interface
4. Unit 3: Using the HMC tree style user interface
5. Unit 4: Using the HMC to monitor System z servers
6. Supporting labs
2. Day 2
1. Review
2. Unit 5: Activation profiles and operational tasks
3. Unit 6: Single object operation: CPC session Supporting labs