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Hardware Management Console

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HMC V9 VIOS sort for last activated profile

Sorting for "Last Activated Profile" for VIOS as well
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Warning about other logins in the HMC reboot window

After applying any kind of update/upgrade to HMC, the GUI offers a reboot window with yes/no buttons. I'd be great if that window listed also the other active HMC logins (from same or different host - eventually with reference to where they come f...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Request more functionality when creating custom managed resource role and excluding chosen lpars from user view.

At present when you remove a lpar from a user's assigned custom resource role you need to manually go back into the HMC and add a newly created lpar each time one is added to a managed system. I would like to have an option that would allow new lp...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Add option in ASMI to keep system poweroff after systemp dump

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

LPM Activity Logging

For the new Oracle DB Licensing Model, we need a possibility to log every LPM (Live Partion Moving) Transaction within a Power Server. This log should be exportable for a permanently archive in an audit-proof manner.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

HMC issues after upgrade to V7.7.9.0 SP3

We have upgraded HMC from HMC V7.7.9.0 SP1 to HMC V7.7.9.0 SP3.After HMC update , when trying to run any "viosvrcmd" commands its not working and giving error as below. The same commands were working before the upgrade when we were in lower SP lev...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

HMC Manage Serviceable Event Notification SMTP server credentials

We are unable to set user & password for SMTP server when configuring HMC Manage Serviceable Event Notification. We no longer have a SMTP server in-house as our email is now cloud based and require user/password authentication in order to rela...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

PowerVM LPM and Affinity Groups

Add Affinity group support in LPM (new command line only parameters) enabling preservation/assignment of affinity groups when partitions are migrated between systems.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

HMC remove software version from Pre/login screen

The pre/login screen for our HMC is showing the software release "Hardware Management Console (V7R7.9.0.3)"
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Possibility to extract LPM activity from HMC

Our team needs to log all LPM activity on dual-HMC setup to be able to provide proof to Oracle company that the partitions running Oracle have not been moved to another Power frame. We would like to have a log that contains all LPM activity on the...
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

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