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Hardware Management Console

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lack of AC power status in IBM Power servers

Hello. Please refer to PMH 74741,820,820 and RCMS 820,01DNGBS. In case of AC power failure, only loss of power is recorded in ASMI. Moreover, if two power supplies fail - only one failure is recorded at ASMI. When AC power comes back - there is no...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

A7004760 (Update Access Code Exipiration) not Visible

SRC Code A7004760 'count down to Update Access Code expiration' not logged as a service event; warning notification not delivered to administrator's defined under 'Manage Serviceable Event Notification' users. Administrators only notified after A7...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

POWER8 HMC

POWER8 HMC noise production
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Better LDAP integration in the HMC

We tried to use LDAP Remote User Management as authentication for the HMC.Unfortunately the way the attribute for the task role is implemented is not practical.It has to be possible to give a "cn" in a specified "ou" to look for the task role and ...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Manage Task and Resource Role window size and capabilities

HMC GUI interface: go into users and rolesselect- manage tasks and resource roles:modify - manage resource roleyou have to use the slide bar constantly to see the partition name for every server you want to add and it returns back to the left as s...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 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.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 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...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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...
over 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...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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