Ok, first of all I need to know the 'IP, gateway address & subnet mask of NIM and client (of 193 network).
If you are restoring mksysb on new client using NIM, you use SMS menu to configure the IP's
Giving an example of my environment
The ping test should be successful.
The above is for new clients
If you are saying you already have some client existing on 193 network, then you gotta define the network on NIM server 1st, and on client run the below
Hit enter and try to connect from NIM, it should work.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by ibmtech; 11-08-2013 at 01:27 PM..
Reason: Example
All,
I'm testing NIM on a 7026-m80 machine.
But everytime i want to setup the master, i get this error message...
Anyone who knows how to solve this issue? google doesn't seem to know much about it
# nim_master_setup
############################## NIM master setup... (1 Reply)
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