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Clappmond RAS enhancemenets

Recently I worked on a number of calls where PHA application monitor timed out. Usually we can not provide a proper RCA in these cases which frustrates our customers.I propose to add an option to application monitor / clappmond to collect addition...
almost 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

HMC offload

vHMC unable to offload problem data to USB.
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Planned for future release

'WPAR-specific routing support' for PowerHA WPAR-enabled Resource Groups

We want to use PowerHA to aid availability of some critical business applications and databases running in WPARs.The WPARs have to be placed in different Network Security Zones (Prod/Dev/Test) to ensure network segmentation. So every of this WPAR ...
about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

PowerHA support handle SNMP trap notification from the SVC for automatic recovery from replication link down

I would require PoweHA support handle SNMP trap notification from the SVC as it does from IBM DS8000 family.I need PowerHA to detect link down, link degraded and link up events as it does from IBM DS8000 family, and this be shown in clstrmgr.debug...
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

Notification of "Primary" HMC during Schedule Service Information

A customer expected to receive emails regarding the Scheduled Service Information for VPD, heartbeat, etc. He never received any emails. Reviewing the data shows the HMC he was setting the schedule on was not the primary to the systems. Attempting...
about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Notification of Repository Disk Failure

When the SAN cable is pulled for backup node, repository disk failure event is notified. When administrator does a manual planned RG move, RG moves to standby and fails because SAN cable is out and data is not accessible. It seems like Apple would...
over 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

GUI continuously shows "Fetching Topology" when duplicate names exist in the configuration.

The GUI should accept duplicates names as the CLI does.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Better handlig of PowerHA site POL setting

Improvements for site Priority Override Location handling. In a multi-site cluster with resource group "Inter-SiteManagement Policy"="Prefer Primary Site" setting, the sitePriority Override Location" (POL) changes the cluster startupand manual RG ...
over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release