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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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    HMC GUI - choose specific FC adapter on target VIOS

    A customer has multiple Fibre Channel connections to SAN Fabric A on VIOS#1 and VIOS#2 has multiple connections to SAN Fabric B. Using the command line migrlpar it is possible to specify the target VIOS and specific FC adapter port. Can the HMC GU...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Show HMC Firewall "Available applictions" in HMC CLI

    I would like to see possibility to list all possible Applications that can be configured on HMC firewall, on HMC CLI in a similar way as they are shown in HMC GUI (see atttached screenshot) Currently lshmc --firewall gives list only for the rules ...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    HMC Networkvisualization should show vNIC connections

    The HMC Network Visualization does not show active and passive vNIC Connetions in the GUI.Please add the possibility to klick adapter and / or LPAR to dynamically draw lines between the komponentes that show the relations.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to set the idle timeout when LDAP auto-manage is enabled

    Due to recent audit findings, we are enabling auto-manage using LDAP groups to audit users who have access to the HMC. The plan is to have users inherit user properties defined in the LDAP groups. During testing, we noticed when LDAP is configured...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    HMC backup image tool creation on physical HMC appliance

    The current backup utility in the HMC requires the base image to be installed before attempting a restore. Depending on the version there may be prerequisite patches that need to be installed before running the restore which adds further complexit...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Bring back Pins Pane in HMC V10!

    We use the Pins Pane on a regular basis. It's very useful to group resources and easily access them in the quickest way possible. For some reason this feature was removed in HMC V10. Now customers can no longer take advantage of this time saving f...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Future consideration

    centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

    For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    extend Support for HMC classic View after Release 8.8.6

    Wir benutzen den classic View auf der HMC in der Version 8.8.6. Beim letzten Update ist aufgefallen das die Version 8.8.6 die letzte Version sein soll, die den classic View unterstützt.Mit dem enhanced+ View haben wir erhebliche Performance Proble...
    almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

    HMC GUI Darkmode

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    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Please add for REST API token based authentication

    Security tools and hardening activities usually configure password expiration for accounts and then REST API call will stop working. Using separate tokens for REST API prevent for automation tools stop working.
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

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