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LDAP Group Support for Power HMC

Enable LDAP Group Mapping on HMC
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC Enhanced UI lacking client slot ID option for vFC adapters

The enhanced UI in the HMC is lacking the ability to choose a slot id for the client vFC adapter and forces the next available slot id on the client LPAR which may vary from LPAR to LPAR. This is not the case with the classic UI where you have ful...
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Provide a means to Enable DNS from the HMC CLI

NTP can be both configured and enabled from the HMC CLI.To Configure NTP, use these commands:chhmc -c xntp -s add -a 172.21.128.95 -i eth0To Enable NTP, use this command:chhmc -c xntp -s enable To configure DNS, I can use this command:chhmc -c net...
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Enhancement for diagrmc command for PEP testing

To test communication between HMC before setting up a POWER Enterprise Pool between multiple HMC, the command diagrmc is used from one HMC.The problem is: Only RMC connection is tested nothing about ssh (port 22) by default.But "The ssh session is...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

LDAP and multiple base DN support

We configure our HMC's with LDAP integration for user management. With users in various regions around the world, and how our LDAP OU's are configured, the scope has to be set to sub, and very high up in the OU tree. This results in a login delay ...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Add Physical Processor pool utilisation to Managed System PCM REST API

Please add Physical Processor Pool utilisation metrics (equivalent to those provided by ‘lslparutil -r pool -m <frame>') to Managed System PCM REST API.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Add option in ASMI to keep system poweroff after systemp dump

Add option in ASMI to keep system poweroff after systemp dump
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Two Factor Authentication for HMC GUI login

Using Two Factor Authentication for the HMC login page, especially for the GUI login.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

CLI Import for Certificates

System: Supported pSeries HMC Code VersionsActor: AIX/HMC SAs Description: HMC code by default uses self-signed certificates. In this day and age of exploiting weaknesses, businesses are blocking self-signed certs via the browser. Yet certificates...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

HMC WIldcard Certificate Support

We are getting crap from providers now that having an HMC with a self signed certificate is no longer acceptable. Such a device may be banned from their equipment racks and it now violates various requirements. It's not just the HMC of course it's...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered