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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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    Add pedbg collection option to the Enhanced GUI

    Customer want to have an option in the Enhanced GUI to collect a pedbg and off load this to a remote server or a callhome server.
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Auto restart Cloud Connector after failure

    We have noticed several HMC's will show the Cloud Connector status is disconnected without reason. Upon issuing the command to restart the cloud connector, it succeeds and stays connected for some time. We would like the option to have the cloud c...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC should be enabled to use NTP slew mode

    NTP can be configured to slew the clock. When slewing the clock the time on the system is incremented slower until the system clock is in sync with the time on the reference system.
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Log validation tool at the HMC.

    When LPM fails, the logs are collected by defauly. Also they can be collected by the pedbg tool with option to collect various logs. Once the logs are collected and uploaded, there could be some logs missing due to various reasons. In HMC after lo...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Under review

    create easy HMC update process

    When selecting HMC management / updates, user must manually enter IBM FTP server data and select last image.Please change the update process for a mostly "automated" process including (if possible) a downtime estimate prior to updateing.Also the l...
    about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    HMC GUI should have an option of adding an LDAP group along with LDAP users

    HMC GUI should have an option of manage/add users as well as groups from LDAP. We currently have the LDAP configured under HMC to authenticate based on the individual user but not group. A case was opened with IBM support in order to provide a sol...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

    Persistent warning when automatic saving of partition profile changes have been disabled

    The enhanced HMC GUI is missing one important feature: a persistent warning when automatic saving of configuration changes has been switched off when you are making changes. It got switched off because someone edited the profile directly while the...
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    command redirection for HMC rsh-shell

    classical command redirection not available in HMC rsh-shell. ping 192.168.1.10 > ping_test.txtbash : ping_test.txt: restricted : cannot redirect output
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

    Feature: disable "case-insensitivity" HMC-username for ldap user

    Unfortunately, with the HMC it depends on the upper and lower case of the user name by login (via GUI and SSH). Often the maintenance of the username in the LDAP is not completely uniform. e.g. old user: -user132-Admin1. new user : -user132-admin1
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Schedule operations on command line for profile-data backup in HMC

    Not only HMC and VIO backup, but also managed systems profile backup is needed on schedule operations. And it is better to manage the schedule operations on command line.
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

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