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Hardware Management Console

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IT department : Jose Carlos Alves

we need to change the MTU from 1500 to 1450 in our DR HMC ( external network) and also this HMC is connect internally and locally to a p770 p7+ (FSP2) in DR site and also to a 2x E870 production servers in production site (FSP2 ports), my be we ne...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Power10 eBMC systems : Add CLI Command to change Access Password

Using case # TS013244866 as a reference. For a Brand NEW eBMC Power10 Frame , with nothing on it, just freshly cabled up and in that state you have to enter a password and then setup the VMI. That's the password I was told cannot be done via CLI, ...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

updlic extend with meaningful functions/messages

A.updlic extend with meaningful functionsi.e. for explicit FW download against pci card like UI already have implemented.updlic -m MS -o a -t io -l latest -p Partition-ID -s SLOT-l latest -r disk B.updlic extend with meaningful message for pending...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Offer an HMC base image with the latest Servce Pack

When deploying multiple HMC's it is a time-consuming process to install the base version and apply all service packs and requisite fixes to get on the latest supported fix level (particularly on V9R1 to get to 9.4.2). It would be nice to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Task in Scheduled Operations to Schedule an HMC Reboot

We have numerous frames attached to an HMC. IBM recommends rebooting the HMC monthly to quarterly. We would like to schedule a reboot in 'Scheduled Operations'.
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

HMC Drift Management

Need a solution to compare, report and action HMC configuration drift.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Shift pane to the right after pinning the left menu on HMC v10R2.

It's annoying that the left menu hides a lot of things once you pin it to the side. We should be able to pin it and have the right pane shift right so no words are covered.
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

password rest for BMC console inband account

BMC console inband id on 7063-CR2 HMCs requires a password reset to comply with our security policies. As of today, BMC console inband account password can be reset from HMC when it is expired ( chhmc man page states so and based on IBM case TS014...
11 months 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...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Needs more information

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