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Hardware Management Console

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Return previous functionality to manage rw / read-only on virtual media library iso's from the GUI.

HMC users managing the virtual media library from the GUI were impacted when this functionality was removed.
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Display command for a GUI task

The HMC should have the possibility to show the CLI command for a task that is executed over the GUI. For example the start of a VM should return "chsysstate -r lpar .....". Such a functionality is implemented in AIX SMIT using the F6 key. This wo...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems.

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems. This enhancement will provide a customer with the current status of the flex capacity utilization, which will make managing and decision making of moving capacity...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC power supply display

Create an option to view the actual status of a POWER supply. Currently, it's impossible to verify their status.
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Make group tags on HMC accessible via the CLI

In the HMC, there's an option to create and list group tags. This is only available in the HMC browser. It would be good to include the tags in the output of the lssyscfg -r lpar command. These tags should also be able to be set using the chhsyscf...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Reinstatement of 'sed' in HMC v10

Hi , We urge the reinstatement of the 'sed' command in the next patch for HMC v10. Its removal (PTF MF71298 and MF71299) has critically impacted the functionality of numerous scripts, including ezh (Brian Smith) and eezh (Matthew Opoka). Additiona...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Capacity/Performance Management

HMC should provide the same detail level and functionality like lpar2rrd in point of Capacity and Performance management.
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Ansible Collection ibm.power_hmc: Secrets from environment variables, extra_vars and AWX/AAP secrets

Dear IBM team, the Ansible Collection ibm.power_hmc lacks a secure way to provide secrets at the moment. Could you please add native support for secrets lookup from environment variables, Ansible extra_vars and AWX/AAP secrets? This makes the usag...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

add cli/REST path/command to allow a) creation of tag b) removal of tag against resource and c) querying of resources tags (which tags are assigned) - perhaps field in lssyscfg

HMC GUI 10 provides 'tags' to allow functional grouping of systems and instance/lpars however these are not exposed as query able through REST or cli commands to allow management tools to make decisions / use the same tags
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration