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Hardware Management Console

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Option to enable HMC Call Home Paging to Phone Number

"Option to enable HMC Call Home Paging to Phone Number along with emails..Need the phone number feature to be added."This would help us to stay alert for any production server h/w failure.. Currently email is configured but we missed to take actio...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

set the firmware bootlist by hmc cli command

When a (AIX) partion is created (mksyscfg) and the partition is started, the boot has a 'default' boot list. We would like to be able to set it by a HLC command, so to avoid cd usb rmt and have just hard disk as entry. Rationale: avoid any othe...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

Filter vtmenu's list of Managed Systems

The list of managed systems shown in vtmenu contains systems from both the primary and secondary sites.During the DR testing exercise at the secondary site there is the possibility of a production managed system being selected by mistake.The reque...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

HMC Security Concern with initial login screen

The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) customer has advised that their Security Team would like to have the initial login screen modified in the HMC code to the remove the information displayed which indicates the number of managed systems...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

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.
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

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.
over 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...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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