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Hardware Management Console

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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...
almost 8 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...
almost 8 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.
about 8 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)"
over 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...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Provide an option in HMC Administration to enable/disable cimserver

Please provide an option in the HMC Management screen so that the administrators can Enable/Disable cimserver on the HMC. Few customers would like to disable traffic on cimserver port as a part of security hardening.
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC updates and upgrades can be difficult at times to figure out

HMC updates and upgrades can be difficult at times to figure out. For example what prereqs are required. We have many HMCs and they are not all in sink so when it comes for an upgrade or update it is rather easy to miss something on a prereq list ...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 10 Delivered

HMC DHCP server customization

Make it possible for HMC administrator to add custom Address Range in DHCP server configuration.
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Request CLI for creating and editing HMC templates

I would like to be able to create and edit HMC template from the HMC command line
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

HMC Needs Need To Be Able To Send Email Alerts To An SMTP Server With Authentication

We have an HMC that is managing a new Power8 machine. The HMC is V8R8.4.0 and the machine type is 7042-CR8. In the Service Management section of the HMC web page, there are configuration options to setup emailed alerts. The point of this function ...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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