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Hardware Management Console

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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

RFE to request bundling of Anti Virus into the hmc application or some other AV software, Preferably Crowdstrike AV

Adding an Antivirus engine would enhance protecting against vulnerabilities; real time monitoring, all would benefit in todays cyber attack environment
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

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

"Learn more" link in "Transmit Service Information" window of the HMC is incomplete

Customer is trying to send all kind of data to IBM, but it is unclear, when the send button is pushed, that the data is really uploaded to IBM. He want to know more and see the "learn more" option" but notice this is less and incomplete informatio...
about 5 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

Create custom groups in enhanced interface where we can specify filters as in classic interface

We would like to be able to do the same as we can in the Classic interface as descriped here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER7/p7ha1/user-definedgroups.htm​
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

DNS Configuration while installing VIOS from HMC

When VIOS is installed from HMC using ‘Management Console Image' installation method with the wizard ‘Add VIOS Wizard', the user (e.g. padmin), after login into VIOS , cannot access or even ping any other host using the hostname unless the host re...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Redesign HMC welcome text to be unformatted or allow HTML tags

The HMC welcome text is automatically reformatted in the HMC web interface and does not met the layout conform the input file. This RFE propose a redesign of the HMC web user interface to allow: - Create a button to allow unformatted text so the l...
almost 3 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

put back the MOVE resource fuction on the HMC

The new versions with the Enhanced version of the HMC do not have a MOVE function. a move can be accomplished but it is not a straight forward operation like it was on the classic version of the HMC
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

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