<div>
Do you need more assistance on this? Any uncertainties?
</div>


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Hi,<br />
<br />
I'm new to AIX HMC. &nbsp;I got &nbsp;IBM P505 and It has 2 HMC port. &nbsp;What is the purpose of using &nbsp;HMC instead of direct console connection?
</div>
</div>


Hi,

I'm new to AIX HMC.  I got  IBM P505 and It has 2 HMC port.  What is the purpose of using  HMC instead of direct console connection?

AIX HMC question

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.

Unix OS

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.