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for the call home facility of the HMC, allow an addition of a certificate for proxy use

there is ability to add a proxy for access to the internet, however it is necessary to add a certificate for that call home connection to be encrypted, such that the proxy server can decrpyt prior to making the connection to essuport.ibm.com
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

E-mail about CMC socket subscription expiring lacks vital information

There are e-mails being sent out by CMC to warn us about expiring CMC socket subscriptions. We run into the problem that the e-mail lacks vital information to take immediate action. The e-mail currenty lists the number of sockets that are affected...
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Add documentation for changing the "drvlanmap" and "drvswitchmap"

Please update the VM Recovery Manager documentation to include how to change the "drvlanmap" and "drvswitchmap" parameters from the command line. The actual commands are misleading because they specify changing the "vlanmap" and "vswitchmap", but,...
3 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Purestorage support in VMRM DR

Need PureStorage support to implement VM Recovery Manager in our environment.
3 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Support vHMC on Hyper-v

Many customers are using vmware, but with new license/broadcom challenges then other hypervisors are asked for. Smaller sites dont have a separate Power systems (or 2) to use for the vHMC so they are forced to either purchase the CR2 (best choice ...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

HMC virtual console, increase the terminal windows rows

When doing installations and I want to save the output, todays virtual console is not saving enough rows.In normal situations one of course use a terminal session to the virtual server but when working with network or as an active work viosupgrade...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Detailing environmental variables used by IBM products

It would be a great starting point having IBM list the environmental variables used for controlling additional application behavior allowing administrators the ability in some cases to control additional system behavior. eg QIBM_SMTP_FWDSVR_LCL_MAIL
6 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 Submitted

lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System> command work as is for Power11 Systems

The command lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System Name> for Power11 Systems will yield and error : "The command entered is either missing a required parameter or a parameter value is invalid. The parameters that are missing or have an inval...
5 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted