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Hardware Management Console

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HMC GUI, UAK expiration.

Suppose that my frame's UAK are about to expire in a few days. Suppose I'm working on something else that requires my attention. Suddenly I begin to receive popups telling me that UAK are about to expire. I have about 50 frames so I receive about ...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Add sssd to Power Hardware Management Console

Product Defect was opened for this issue- SW512801 We need sssd added to HMC user authentication so we can use our current number only ID's to log into the HMC's as we did pre 950 level.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Partitions overview - identify the shared processor and memory pools assigned to the LPAR

Using multiple LPARS for testing ideas, then deactivating them, I am assigning LPARS to an "InactivePool" while they are powered off. I need to ensure that LPARs are all correctly assigned before activation to avoid license warnings and keep me le...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

HMC mail sender

The function "Event Notification" allows you to let the HMC send out an email in the case of issues. The sender of this mails is derived from the name you have given the HMC. The syntax of the mail address:<Console name>@<Console name>...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 6 Future consideration

Shift pane to the right after pinning the left menu on HMC v10R2.

It's annoying that the left menu hides a lot of things once you pin it to the side. We should be able to pin it and have the right pane shift right so no words are covered.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Better support for RMC and Novalink

Currently, firmware updates rely on an RMC connection between the HMC and the individual AIX/Linux partitions. Also, Cloud Management Console relies on an RMC connection to the individual partitions to obtain some of its data. We would like Novali...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

HMC API Json support

It's important that HMC API support Json format.We would like use HMC API and integrate them on our API systems.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

VM/LPARS description synced in HMC-pair (and to CMC)

We would llike to use the description field for virtual servers / LPARs in HMC, but since its not synced by default we need to update both HMCs. This extra step seems unneeded since a description for LPARs should never differ in between HMCs, ther...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Partitions table view select column to sort save to preferences

The table view of Partitions defaults to sorting by name. It would be helpful if when user sorts on another column that the change is both persistent when returning to this screen and/or saved with user preferences.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Feature: disable "case-insensitivity" HMC-username for ldap user

Unfortunately, with the HMC it depends on the upper and lower case of the user name by login (via GUI and SSH). Often the maintenance of the username in the LDAP is not completely uniform. e.g. old user: -user132-Admin1. new user : -user132-admin1
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

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