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Hardware Management Console

Operating System Level automatic refresh in HMC Gui

Because every time we update AIX lpars to a newer level, there is a difference on the HMC. The HMC still reflects the AIX version prior to the AIX update. So we need to update the HMC information manually everytime with osrefresh hmc command param...
23 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Allow scheduled tasks in HMC schedule management to be edited

When you have created a scheduled Task like "backup profile data" or "backup HMC data" it os only possible to view or delete the Task. So if you want to Change the schedule to a new time oder date, you have to delete and receate the Task. It would...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted
145 VOTE

Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

Return previous functionality to virtual storage management via top level server to allow changes to client vFC and fcs ports.

If a VIOS fcs port fails or becomes unreliable there is no means to move the existing client vFC (WWPN) to a different fcs via the GUI. This capability was available in a previous release - along with the ability to create RO virtual media in the ...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Email notification of HMC dashboard

We need email notification of the HMC whole dashboard which includes all the errors and warnings part once in a day or if there is any alert.
27 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted
124 VOTE

HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Add a toggle on the HMC Partitions > Usage > Processor usage panel to omit Idle cpu cycles (like on the Perf. Capacity Monitoring/PCM Dashboard > Processor usage HMC display).

Despite the technical explanation that the Partitions usage display reflects hypervisor dispatch time, which includes idle time whenever a partition is scheduled on a core, even if the OS is not doing productive work, no one cares to be flagged fo...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

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