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Hardware Management Console

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Custom DHCP range on HMC

Requesting the ability to add custom DHCP ranges to Power HMC.
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

HMC Replication using HMC command Line

As per IBM support, HMC replication is not supported via HMC command line and could only be done using GUI. This is a problem when you need to manage a lot of HMCs with frequent replication issue. It is really difficult to login to each HMC and ch...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

On HMC format USB storage device using command line

on the Hardware Management Console is not possible to format USB storage device, or delete the content using CLI.If trough WEB console is possible to format USB storage device,why is not possible to do this in CLI?
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Provide ability to specify timeout for viosvrcmd command

HMC viosvrcmd command uses a global timeout when running vios commands. The timeout is 10 minutes. However, when running backupios command via viosvrcmd the command simply times out before completing the backup. By adding a timeout option to viosv...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Ability?to?Masquerade?in?HMC?sendmail?config

We need help with sendmail masquerading in our HMC servers so that the sender address is changed in all mail and alerts sent from the server.
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

HMC V9 VIOS sort for last activated profile

Sorting for "Last Activated Profile" for VIOS as well
almost 6 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...
almost 6 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...
almost 7 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
over 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

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