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Chapter 8. Hardware Management Console overview
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You are finished with the HMC dialer.
You can also connect to IBM by a VPN channel through your intranet and use an
other HMC for dialing or as a gateway to the firewall into the Internet.
The Guided Setup Wizard - Authorize Users for Electronic Service Agent screen
is now displayed (see Figure 2-32). The information collected and sent to IBM by
the HMC can be seen on the IBM Electronic Service Agent Web site.
http://www.ibm.com/support/electronic
To access this data on the Web you must have a registered IBM ID and
authorized that ID through the HMC. You can register IBM IDs using the Web
site.
Enter a valid IBM ID and an optional second IBM ID if required, in the Web
authorization panel. The Guided Setup will only allow you to authorize two user
IDs to access the data sent by the HMC to IBM. However you can submit as
many registrations as you like by clicking Service Applications
→
Service Agent
→ Sserver
Registration from the HMC desktop (Figure 8-29).
If you do not have a valid IBM ID, you can choose to leave this panel blank and
manually complete this information later by clicking Service Applications
→
Service Agent
→
Sserver
Registration from the HMC desktop.
Figure 8-29 Authorized user for ESA