This topic describes how to identify the user
in control of a server. This means either the local console, the remote console,
or neither, in which SERVER is displayed as current
user.
This task applies to the following configurations only:
- Local console that is directly attached with remote access allowed
- Remote console through dial-up support
To identify which user has control, perform the following steps:
- In the iSeries™ Operations
Console Connection window, look for the row that displays the connection details
for the configuration in question.
- Identify the Current User/System Name values.
These values belong to the user who has control. Current User displays
the user ID with which the user in control signed on to the operating system
of the PC in control or completed the connection. System Name displays
the PC name where the user is in control.
- Identify the Local Console value. It is
the name of the PC that is directly attached to the server.
- Compare the System Name and Local
Console values as follows:
- The local console has control if the System Name and Local
Console values are the same. This comparison is useful to the
connected remote console through dial-up support user.
- A remote console through dial-up support has control if the System
Name and Local Console values are different.
This comparison is useful to the local console user.
- No user has control if SERVER displays as
the Current User/System Name value. This is useful
to either the local console or the remote console through dial-up support
user. A request for control is automatically granted.