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Hardware Management Console

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Security: Add to user configuration option to log in only from selected IP address

Currently, HMC does not allow you to restrict a user's login to a selected IP address. Such an option is available in SSH however it cannot be used on the HMC console. Currently, it is possible to restrict SSH logins (all of them) using the firewa...
2 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Few confirmation screen before power off manage system

It has been observed a couple of times in the past that the managed server on the processors (i.e. the whole machine) has been powered off accidently since the enhanced version of the GUI was available. To avoid another accident in future can we h...
13 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

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.
6 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enterprise Pools 2.0 optimization of credits

When we ordered our E1080_E980 we purchased credits for that pool. When I designed and configured our first private cloud based on E950s and FS7200 I also added credits to this pool. Since the 2.0 pool worked so well those credits are now impossib...
10 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

Add a flag to HMC CLI commands to display attribute names inline with attributes when using -F filter on atributes (similiar to --header)

When scripting on HMC CLI you have basically two options for filtering attributes. For example 1. lshmcusr | grep $USER name=dummy,taskrole=hmcoperator,description='Dummy User',pwage=30,resourcerole=ALL:,authentication_type=local,remote_webui_acce...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC pedbg command single frame info

Currently the pedbg command grabs ALL relevant data from ALL the HMC's Managed Systems. This can take upwards of an hour especially when we're only interested in a single Managed System. We're requesting the pedbg command to have a switch to allow...
17 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Adding Okta Single Signon method

Add a feature to the authentication method in HMC to integrate with Okta
11 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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