James,

You're not alone having been a little confused about those SWC...

From my understanding, on A-Class, there have been 3 "generations" of Web
Consoles:

1-First one was exactly the same as on older systems: An external web
console, connected in place of physical console.

2-The famous PCI Web Console card was installed in a PCI slot but just to
drain power from it.  It had two connectors on it: A lan port (afaik 10BT
only) and a serial port.  You needed to link the "3-in-one cable" console
port to PCI Web Console serial port so it was also connected in place of
physical console.

3-Latest Core I/O card (coming with PA-8700 systems) integrated Web Console
so it uses same physical connection and IP address than GSP-LAN.

As far as I know, N-Class system never used the PCI Web Console card so used
either version 1 or 3.

Hope this will help !

Denis St-Amand (remove .removeit from email address).

"James Hofmeister" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Hello Mike, Folks,
>
> RE: A- and N- series consoles
>
> Just trying to redeem my dignity as a friend pointed out...   Of course
> this does not over come the fact that I probably support this card...
> Please don't all rush out to place a call on it at the same time ;-)
>
> Just a fyi...  If you are having as much fun getting this working as I
> was...   www.docs.hp.com says:  "The Secure Web Console (SWC) is
> installed in the A400/A500 system as a PCI Card. This option must be
> included in the initial order of the A400/A500 server where it will be
> installed at the factory during the assembly process".
>
>
http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/otsearch/getfile?id=/hpux/onlinedocs/hw/class_a/a400/content/00/02/QU/idd_2/6.html&searchterms=console%7ca400%7cweb&queryid=20040823-104624
> << watch that wrap >>
>
> My A400 purchase was a 7.0 pre-power patch 1 order... and the PCI slot
> #1 included a second 100BT LAN card as 100BT on the MFIO board was not
> functioning at 7.0 initial release (pre PP-1) thus no SWC for
> Aleta.atl.hp.com.
>
> Regards,
>   James Hofmeister
>   Email: <first>.<last>@hp.com
>   Hewlett Packard - Global Solutions Engineering (WTEC)
>   P.S. My Ideals are my own, not necessarily my employers.

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