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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.
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 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
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Offer Windows USB recovery media tool for the HMC

IBM only offer a Linux method of creating a USB bootable recovery image for the HMC (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6454883). It would be good to have a media creation tool for Windows which can take the ISO recovery image and format the U...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Updating COD on HMC

Updating COD on HMCRequest For Enhancement to change this dialog behavior.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Trigger NPIV disk config validation for LPM from HMC GUI

Validation of NPIV disk level configuration for LPM is described here -- (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Power%20Systems/page/NPIV%20storage%20validation%20options%20for%20Live%20Partition%20Mobility) Curren...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

HMC Enhanced Interface, Allow DLPAR of resource that is owned by another LPAR where that LPAR is not active

In the Enhanced HMC Interface, you cannot add an adaptor that is owned by another LPAR, even when that LPAR is not activated. This is possible in both Classic and Command-Line Interfaces. This is particularly important when sharing SAS or Fibre ad...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

IBM development took away the ability to dynamically add a vSCSI to a VIOS. We need that feature put back!

IBM development took away the ability to dynamically add a vSCSI to a VIOS. We need that feature put back!
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 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.
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Let's Encrypt support for HMC

Add Let's Encrypt integration to HMC code to automate the security certificate management on these appliances. For clarity, more details about Let's Encrypt athttps://letsencrypt.org/about/
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Improvement of snap file output procedure on Power/AIX

For HW log analysis of Power systems, a snap file is necessary on AIX, but file output with root authority is necessary. That's a problem from a security point of view.On the DS8000 series of High-End Storage products, although detailed log files ...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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