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Hardware Management Console

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Security: Add to user configuration option to log in only from selected IP address

Currently, HMC does not allow you to restrict a user's login to a selected IP address. Such an option is available in SSH however it cannot be used on the HMC console. Currently, it is possible to restrict SSH logins (all of them) using the firewa...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enterprise Pools 2.0 optimization of credits

When we ordered our E1080_E980 we purchased credits for that pool. When I designed and configured our first private cloud based on E950s and FS7200 I also added credits to this pool. Since the 2.0 pool worked so well those credits are now impossib...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow Simplified HMC based Remote Restart to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

Simplified HMC based Remote Restart is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and s...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
10 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add ability to set the idle timeout when LDAP auto-manage is enabled

Due to recent audit findings, we are enabling auto-manage using LDAP groups to audit users who have access to the HMC. The plan is to have users inherit user properties defined in the LDAP groups. During testing, we noticed when LDAP is configured...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release
143 VOTE

Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration
124 VOTE

HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Email notification to "authorized to create orders" users in Customer Initiated Upgrade whenever an ooCoD engine is activated/deactivated

Activating processors via ooCoD starts the billing process. Many customers stage an ooCoD record to be available "in a pinch" when the need for capacity may be time sensitive. Anyone with access to the SE could turn on engines and start billing wi...
11 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Allow comments in lan firewall network info in HMC.

Depending on our data center, we have one or more HMCs installed at a location. On each HMC we have to allow many different subnets access in the various rules in the HMC lan firewall config. It's nice that we can input entire subnets in the lan f...
11 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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