[Info-vax] Itanium Mgmnt Console IP address

[Steven Schweda]

Richard Maher wrote:
> Shit, you're not giving too much away guys are ya? Look I know it's free
> advice but some real commands with some real examples would really help
> here. Where's Steven Schweda when you need him? Actual commands and actual
> output?

   To avoid long, rambling, repetitious, cryptic, vulgar,
pointless tirades, he normally stops reading when he sees
'From: "Richard Maher"' at the beginning of a posting.

   Then, given a description as vacuous as "one of these
lovely Itanium boxes that has pretty recent formware", he
tends to wonder why anyone wouldn't simply put the actual
model number into a search window at hp.com, and get the
actual manuals.  He might have tried it himself, if he had
found any useful info in the original complaint.

> Anyway, I don't have a serial cable (I thought those were some dodgy pin
> arrangement that was as common as hen's teeth?) [...]

   Again, lacking any useful info, I'll assume that this
refers to one of those serial ports where a simple cable
connects to the most-likely-desired port, and the complex
official cable is needed only for the other two,
less-likely-desired, ports (details of which are available in
many places on the Web, if one actually needs them).

   Before complaining about the poor quality of the responses
to a request, one might profitably consider the low quality of
the request itself.

   He, by the way, had no particular trouble configuring his
own zx2000 and rx2600 systems, using a simple serial cable
(from a DECserver), by following the instructions in the
manuals which he downloaded for these systems from hp.com.