Introduction

IBM® PowerHA® for i Standard Edition enhanced advanced node failure detection to support a new representational state transfer (REST) interface. The Hardware Monitor Console (HMC) is being updated to replace the existing Common Information Model (CIM) server with a new representational state transfer (REST) based interface. HMC version V8R8.5.0 is the last version of HMC to support the CIM server, and is the first version of HMC to support all REST API functions that are required by IBM PowerHA SystemMirror® for i licensed program. This function is provided through a new function PowerHA PTF.

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Software Requirements

• 5770-SS1 Base operating system option 3 - Extended Base Directory Support

• 5770-SS1 Base operating system option 33 - Portable Application Solutions Environment

• 5733-SC1 - IBM Portable Utilities for IBM i (Only required for initial configuration of a cluster monitor.)

• 5733-SC1 option 1 - OpenSSH, OpenSSL, zlib (Only required for initial configuration of a cluster monitor.)

• 5770-HAS IBM PowerHA for i LP

• HMC version V8R8.5.0 or later. This is the first version of HMC to support the REST server

• TLS V1.2 Enabled (See: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020876)

• PowerHA for i new function cluster monitor HMC REST support PTFs:

  • V7R1 - PowerHA PTF Group SF99706 level 13

  • V7R2 - PowerHA PTF Group SF99776 level 6

  • V7R3 - PowerHA PTF Group SF99876 level 3

Configuring advanced node failure detection on hardware management console (HMC) with REST server

More Information

For more information see the following topics in the IBM i Knowledge Center:

• Advanced node failure detection overview

• Planning for advanced node failure detection