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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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    Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

    Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Adding Okta Single Signon method

    Add a feature to the authentication method in HMC to integrate with Okta
    11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Support for NFS in updlic

    Almost all HMC commands support NFS as a way of obtaining updates or storing information. updlic can't use nfs now: ``` -r - the repository from which LIC updates will be retrieved: ibmwebsite - IBM service website ftp - FTP site sftp - secure FTP...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Allow mount point on HMC for iFix update selection in GUI

    In the new GUI a mount point on the HMC is selectable for both POWER firmware and HMC upgrades (where access to a remote file server or local storage device is not available). However no such option is available when applying an update iFix to the...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    confusing behavior of LPM during inspections max_xfer_size

    confusing behavior of LPM during inspections max_xfer_size : I can create on system "A" lpar "X" (and run it) with max_xfer_size larger (on NPIV virtual FC adapter) then used by respective vios on physical FC adapter I can move this lpar by LPM to...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Customer able to change default behaviour for LPAR's at restart (kernel dump, reboot behaviour, and startup profiles, for example)

    In order to enhance the possibilities of tracing the origin of errors when something in the kernel (or a piece of software) seems to hang, it would be beneficial to be able to change the default behaviour for restarting an LPAR to "dump" - this co...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Option to change syslog port on HMC

    The default syslog port on HMC is 514. Why it is useful: Customer (major bank) policy, the central syslog server do not work with ports under 1024 How it should work: an option of HMC's chhmc command.
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Keyboard using BMC -- KVM : additional languages

    Hello IBM, when using the KVM within OpenBMC Gui, US keyboard is default and no way to change the setting. The idea is to support other keyboard settings too. It would be easiest if the settings of the HMC regarding language and keyboard are taken...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    BMC inband local ID. User needs locked down

    For 7063-CR2 HMCs, there requires a HMC-to-BMC Inband Communications Credentials to allow for periodic monitoring of hardware problem events and other management console functions .This is local user. By default, root account is used for this purp...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    warning in advance before making chaanges that will disable profile sync

    Profile sync is a very helpful feature so it would be nice if when making changes that will disable the feature we could get a warning pop-up when pressing save saying something like "saving this config will disable profile synchronization" in the...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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