Operations Console software requirements

Review the supported operating systems and necessary software to run Operations Console.

Before you continue, verify that you have satisfied the Operations Console hardware requirements according to your intended configuration. Operations Console is supported on Windows^® 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional.

The iSeries™ Access for Windows versions, for both the local console and the remote console (through dial-up support), must be at the same level for correct operation of Operations Console.

PC5250 or IBM^® Personal Communications V5.8 (V5.7 CSD 1 minimum) needs to be installed for the console only. It is not required for remote control panel only configurations.

Note: If you run any software that enables SOCKS on your PC (the PC accesses the Internet through a firewall, such as Microsoft^® Proxy Client, Hummingbird^® SOCKS Client, NEC SOCKS 5, or others), you cannot route the subnet for 192.168.0.0 to the firewall. Operations Console uses addresses in the range of 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255. Incorrect routing causes Operations Console to fail. Check your SOCKS configuration and verify that the entry is:

Direct    192.168.0.0    255.255.255.0

Use the Operations Console properties window to change the IP base address from 192.168.0.2. For example, you can use 192.168.1.2.

Data encryption for a local console on a network (LAN)

Operations Console network connections use a version of Secured Sockets Layer (SSL), which supports device and user authentication without using certificates. By default, Operations Console uses the strongest encryption possible for authentication and data.