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HOST_FAILURE more accurate problem description

In the Discover output, replace the "Check available capacity and configuration issues on target hosts" message with more accurate error messages.
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

With host down, show red hexagon on the host in the left pane

Add a red hexagon next to the host in the right panel when the host is down.
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

tuning of storage monitor

VMR currently pings to each storage_agent every 10 seconds to monitor their status. VMR will log STG_UNREACHABLE in "events.log" file in case the ping is not successful within a certain time limit. The DR site and prod site are geographically disp...
almost 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Removal of Profile from Agent

Question : If a profile is deleted on PowerSC server but it is still showing greyed out some times.Response from IBM - PowerSC does not automatically “push” deletion of a profile to every endpoint. For example, you create customProfile1 and push i...
about 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

PowerHA Gui remediation

we need support to remediate the following vulnerability report HA GUI clients SSL Certificate with Wrong Hostname RFE opened based on support recommendation , please see support update below Unfortunately, the approach of generating new set of se...
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

HA GUI SSL Self-Signed Certificate

PowerHA ships with the ability to create a unique, self-signed certificate for each customer. we need the procedure for allowing us to purchase our own signed certificate
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Clappmond RAS enhancemenets

Recently I worked on a number of calls where PHA application monitor timed out. Usually we can not provide a proper RCA in these cases which frustrates our customers.I propose to add an option to application monitor / clappmond to collect addition...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

HMC offload

vHMC unable to offload problem data to USB.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Planned for future release

'WPAR-specific routing support' for PowerHA WPAR-enabled Resource Groups

We want to use PowerHA to aid availability of some critical business applications and databases running in WPARs.The WPARs have to be placed in different Network Security Zones (Prod/Dev/Test) to ensure network segmentation. So every of this WPAR ...
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

PowerHA support handle SNMP trap notification from the SVC for automatic recovery from replication link down

I would require PoweHA support handle SNMP trap notification from the SVC as it does from IBM DS8000 family.I need PowerHA to detect link down, link degraded and link up events as it does from IBM DS8000 family, and this be shown in clstrmgr.debug...
about 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release