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Hardware Management Console

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need to setup monthly backup of HMC configuration data and partition configuration data to be transfered to remote server

Hi Team,Hi Team,As a customer requiremnet,We need to setup monthly backup of HMC configuration data and partition configuration data to be transferred to remote server.Kindly help us to setup this.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

lslogon: extend attributes "Running Tasks, Access Location, Notes" like in UI

lslogon useful for script automation therefor same attributes like in UI would be more consistent.
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

TS002037047

HMC Test Call home is not a complete testWhen doing a test call home against the HMC a Problem number gets created and then a PMH should be supplied by the support center. The problems we are seeing is when no PMH is returned this are no alerts le...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

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

HMC - PEP XML Preview

We use Power Enterprise Pools extensively. We have found that the XML provided by IBM after a resource purchase is not always correct and adversely affects our running POWER servers.
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future 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

verify upgrade or downgrade for Firmware levels?

maybe ticket, maybe function?When you use update, change LIC to a newer release and retrieve from IBM service web site, the selector shows only old LIC versions. Is this meant to allow a downgrade, is this an error, or just a weird method of telli...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

HMC: IBM i IP address

In the current HMC ui only for an IBM i LPAR the IP address is not shown.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

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