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Hardware Management Console

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migrlpar: add option to map port_vlan_id of virtual ethernet adapters to a different ID

When using the migrlpar HMC command to migrate an LPAR using LPM, it would be useful to have the option to map a vlan id to a different vlan id for the LPAR being migrated.
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Better Locale support in the HMC GUI

The locale support seems to have little impact in the GUI. Changing the default en_US.UTF-8 American English(UTF-8) to en_GB.UTF-8 British English(UTF-8) seemingly doesn't change anything. The date format on the task list is still MM-DD-YY rather ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow chsvcevent to manually update pmh_num and/or comment

Modify chsvcevent to allow manual updating of pmh_num and/or custom field for tracking purposes.
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Njmon plugin for PCM data from Power HMC

Nigel Griffiths developed a Njmon plug-in that interfaces with Linux and AIX partitions on Power Systems to automate the collection of metrics into InfluxDB and graphical representation using Grafana. I am requesting that he develop the same plugi...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

remove user "anonymous" from BMC

remove user "anonymouse" from BMC. ." they are saying that the anonymous user is part of the design ( all though not in use ) " so why i am not able to delete this user. .We will have discussions because of this nonsense-useless-user on every secu...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Create a resource role in Cloud Management Console which only shows assigned lpar resources.lpar and not the managed system

Create a resource role in Cloud Management Console which only shows assigned lpar resources instead of the capacity and usage of the entire frame.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

HMC ESA / Call Home Setup using ALIAS instead of IP Address as SSL Proxy

System: HMCActor: Client needs additional feature Client is using HMC to manage Power Server with multiple AIX Partitions. Since this is a production server, they wanted to setup the ESA/Call home feature. Description:In the ESA / Call home setup,...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

HMC replication for users is incomplete

Using data replication for users profiles copies user and password as well but misses to copy ssh keys.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

HMC Reconnect

The option to signoff from the HMC with a disconnect allowing you to reconnect a session at later time.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

HMC - Correct Operating System version information for IBM i LPARs

The enhanced HMC interface shows incorrect information for the IBM i Operating System version that is loaded.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

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