IBM S/390 - Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction
The Hardware Management Console user interface is designed to provide the functions you need to
operate, monitor, and maintain your processor. Various elements of the processor hardware are
represented as objects (icons) by the Hardware Management Console Application. Through this
application, you can directly manipulate the objects that are defined to the Hardware Management
Console, and be aware of changes to hardware status as they are detected.
The Hardware Management Console communicates with the central processor complex (CPC) through the
CPC's support element (SE). When tasks are performed at the Hardware Management Console, the
commands are sent to the support element which then issues commands to the CPC.
The diagrams below represent a Parallel Enterprise Server - Generation 5 configuration:
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