Might have been included on the USB subsystem and not connected. You could look up the schematics or observe the circuit boards and chips.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 16:33 Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: > As many of us know HMC reports all external devices connected via USB - > mice, keyboards, pendrives, etc. > That's good from security point of view. > However I noticed some HMC (2.15) report *non-existent* device. Yes, I > checked it thoroughly. Imagine pizza-box HMC machine and all the cables > and ports clearly visible. No place to hidden plug or USB hub. However > the HMC reports Gemalto SmartCard Reader. > SmartCard reader is typical equipment of TKE, but not HMC. And it is > *not connected* externally. And I strongly doubt it could be connected > internally - 1U chassis cannot contain SmartCard reader hidden inside. > Yes, I'm pretty sure the HMC reports that device - I restarted HMC and > observed all the messages. There is absolutely no way someone > plugged/unplugged it during the process. > > Any clue? > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
