You can use the technician port to do these tasks:
Initialize a new system.
Service a node canister.
Notes:
When your personal computer is configured with DHCP, the technician port uses DHCP to
reconfigure network services on your personal computer. Software on your personal computer that was
using these services might experience network problems while it is connected to the technician port.
For example, selecting a link in a web page that was loaded before you connect to the technician
port might result in an error message.
For SFP-based systems, the SFP module must be inserted before you power on the server.
Otherwise, you might receive the Internal Service Error that is related to the
techport service.
The location of the technician port can vary, depending on the number of available
Ethernet ports on the system.
If the server has more than two Ethernet ports that are not in a PCIe expansion slot, the
dedicated technician port becomes the first 1/10Gbps Ethernet port that
is identified by the system software.
If the server has fewer than three Ethernet ports that are not in a PCIe expansion slot, there
is not a dedicated technician port. The system recognizes any Ethernet port that is not in a PCIe
expansion slot and is directly connected to a computer that is configured for DHCP as the technician
port.
For example, on Lenovo System x3650 M5 nodes, system recognizes the first onboard 1 Gbps
Ethernet port (Ethernet 1, as viewed from left to right) as the dedicated technician port.
Figure 1 shows the rear view of the node and
the location of the port. For more information about the ports, see Key ports and slots for a Lenovo x3650 M5 server. Figure 1. Rear view of the ports on a Lenovo System x3650 M5 node
On
Supermicro SYS-2028U-TRTP+ systems, IBM Spectrum Virtualize recognizes Ethernet port 1 ( 14 in Figure 2) as the dedicated technician port. See Supermicro SYS-2028U-TRTP+ servers for more details about the ports.Figure 2. Key ports and slots on Supermicro SYS-2028U-TRTP+ systems
