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BMC user password reset from HMC

This is a continuation of the original RFE: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-435 We would like the password reset functionality for BMC users from HMC to be extended to other BMC accounts (consists of hmcinband, root and ADMIN), including the abi...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enable the use of VLAN tagging for HMC LAN/network ports

The HMC’s LAN/network ports do not accept VLAN‑tagged traffic when a public IP is configured. They expect untagged (access) frames on a single VLAN. If an HMC LAN port is connected to a switch port set as a trunk (carrying multiple 802.1Q‑tagged V...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Provide visual indication when IWS web UI is busy

When the IWS server web UI is doing work, there is no visual indication that it is busy when managing deployed services. Providing a busy indicator will make managing deployed services much easier because we will have an indication when processes ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

The x86 image should also be provided for Nutanix, as more customers migrate from VMWare to Nutanix

Flexible IBM Power solutions for the customer
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

make simplified remote restart fully disaster recovery capable

When employing simplified remote restart, one requisite to restart an LPAR on another machine is that all SAN paths and targets (e.g. LUNs) have to be available on target VIO servers. During a disaster recovery scenario, this is not the case; in a...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Return previous functionality to manage rw / read-only on virtual media library iso's from the GUI.

HMC users managing the virtual media library from the GUI were impacted when this functionality was removed.
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Display command for a GUI task

The HMC should have the possibility to show the CLI command for a task that is executed over the GUI. For example the start of a VM should return "chsysstate -r lpar .....". Such a functionality is implemented in AIX SMIT using the F6 key. This wo...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration