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Cloud Management Console

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CMC don't provide any possibility to see number of sockets used vs purchased in subscription.

Would be great to see in CMC number of sockets used and number of sockets purchased by subscription. Such data should be accessible also via REST API
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

CMC Cloud connector stale HMC alerting

Right now, there is no alerting possible for stale HMC's cloud connector status from CMC. Would be great to have possibility receive notification about stale HMC's.
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

PEP 2.0 Delete Pool 2FA

Currently, a PEP 2.0 pool can be deleted with a single click of a button and an acknowledgement. I would suggest to add a 2FA (2nd factor authentication via email etc) before any pool can be deleted to eliminate the chance of a mistake.
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Consolided Capacity monitoring view

In Capacity Monitoring/Performances page, CPU installed, Available, Allocated, Actived can only be shown in each Power view not in the main page (only core usage and cores available). To have a consolided view (with csv export) could be usefull fo...
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Need to see percentage of AIX,VIOS,SLES,RH in overview Cores/Memory in hours/Days etc

In EP 2.0 overwiew Core Usage Total usage (In Average) and Memory Usage Total Usage (Average TB) for hours,days etc. i want to see the percentage of each section e.g. AIX,VIOS,SLES;RH ) see also attached graphic
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Found one Total Inactive Cores at CMC but where is it missed ?

Hi i have seen on our CMC that one Core was missing but i have no idea on thich Fram nor why. Would be useful when my mouse goes over the field Total inactive Cores the CMC shows me the Frame name (See uploaded screenshot)
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Enable possibility to remove servers no longer in CMC concept.

When using the CMC Portal you get distracted, having information of servers, no longer in use. There is also subscription warning messages turning up. It.s annoying, we use cmc portal daily using Capcity Monitoring, Enterprise Pools2.0, Inventory ...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

Cloud Connector STATUS needs a better method of identifying HMCs

The STATUS tab for Cloud Connector ( under Setup ) does not provide a simple and consistent method of identifying the HMCs. It would be helpful to have an additional column that contains the name of the HMC to keep consistency with other screens a...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Under review

Use of Kurbenetes for DOORS

We are working at Valeo on DOORS application at AWS, and with a pool of Application servers that have the Client version installed -> Front End (FE), and other pool that have the Database -> Back End (BE). We have dimension the servers with ...
10 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Needs more information

Need a mechanism for the customer to do internal chargeback via the Cloud Management Console.

I see something that is needed and should be easy to implement in the CMC. That being a mechanism for customer internal Charge-back. One of the benefits of the “cloud” is that the cost is easy accountable. However, that has not been easy with on-p...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Future consideration