7.4. TCP/IP Configuration utilities

With V5R1, new utilities have been added when you right-click TCP/IP Configuration. As shown in Figure 7-24, the following utilities are included:

Figure 7-24. TCP/IP configuration utilities

  • Ping

  • Trace Route

  • Look Up Host

Each of the above Utilities executes on the iSeries server, even though it is invoked from your Operations Navigator workstation. These utilities provide the easy interface to the commonly available “connection verification” functions available on most products supporting basic TCP/IP support.

TCP/IP must be started on your iSeries server to use these functions.

7.4.1. Ping

Verifying that ...

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