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Hardware Management Console

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Add the ability to split out the 5250 firewall rule so that non-secure ports can be disabled or blocked while allowing the secure connection through.

We had a request from the ISERIES Team to block non-secure 5250 connections. we were not able to satisfy this request due to the restrictions on the HMC Firewall.
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

The option to Enable power collections from HMC command line.

I see performance graphs on some of our frames. It looks like we need to enable it on the other frames. We might have to do this every time we get new hardware. I have a script that runs every week that enables collections on the LPARs. The only w...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Show NUMA Scoring of a LPAR in LPAR Overview as selectable field

in the Partition overview it would be helpful as a selectable column field to selecet NUMA Scoring and see how the scoring for all lpars for a power server is
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Set minimal amount of video memory in HMC installation ova file for VMware vSphere

The HMC's installation ova image for VMware does not set the minimal required memory for the video card. If the video card memory for the VM is less than 6 MB, you are unable to set the minimum required screen resolution on the VM system console. ...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

add LACP mode bonding option to HMC

HMC allows only old-fashioned bond mode, but not the most commonly used LACP (802.ad) bond mode.Please add appropriate parameters to "chhmc -c netbond" and corresponding options in the HMC GUI.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Add info in the General Properties [Description] Field

Request an HMC cli command or add to an existing HMC command to add info in the "Description" field under both the Managed Systems and VIO "General Properties" the same as can in the GUI.This will aid our automation.
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

HMC BMC Port Password Management

We need to configure LDAP to manage our BMC Port login on PowerHMC. This is an audit issue and hence I had opened S/W ( TS003831906 ) and H/W call ( 75254,L6Q,000 ). Its been a long time without any resolution. I tried to configure LDAP from the B...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to create 4k certificates for HMC

When creating a new certificate request for a certificate to be signed by a certificate authority on a 7042 HMC, there is no option to select the key size. The generated certificate request has a key size of 2048. Add ability to specify a key size...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

system readyness check for BMC-based systems on HMC

there is no „ readyness check „ for BMC-based systems in HMC-GUI. system readiness : updlic -o k -command did not give valid result.The command-result : " HSCF0281E BMC based systems must be powered off before performing a firmware update " is ful...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Add command to obtain VPD from Managed Systems

There are no CLI commands available to the end-user to obtain a Managed System's VPD. Currently, the only way to obtain this information is to manually log into the ASMI -> System Information -> Vital Product Data
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration