HMC Connectivity Security for IBM POWER5 and POWER6 Processor-Based Systems

This paper describes data that is exchanged between the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and the IBM Service Delivery Center (SDC) and the methods and protocols for this exchange. This includes the configuration of "Call Home" (Electronic Service Agent) on the HMC for automatic hardware error reporting. All the functionality that is described here refers to HMC version V6.1.0 and later.