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Hardware Management Console

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Enhance VPN proxy function for HMC

1) We know the HMC does not allow the user to modify the VPN properties from PMR discussion * David Dilling & Nguyen Nguyen )2) HSBC needs to somehow route VPN traffic like this below. I used the term "VPN proxy" but really it can just be a no...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

No warning for Callhome possible for vHMC products it self

vHMC version 8.8.4 and 8.8.5 Customer uses the callhome wizard in the vHMC (Virtual HMC) when installing this product.At the end of the wizard, he gets a possibility to run a test event. This event hangs for ever, as this vHMC is not allowed to do...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Is a defect

HMC user profiles policy

Hello, I was trying to find a way to setup the user profiles on the HMC to automatically be disabled after x amount of tries with the wrong password. However, the way I understand it, the HMC's local password policy does not have this capability. ...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Adding Okta Single Signon method

Add a feature to the authentication method in HMC to integrate with Okta
13 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Resource role permissions should be transfered to new system during LPM

Current situation: When permission to a specific LPAR is defined in a given resource role, permission is automatically given to the hosting server. If the LPAR is migrated to another hosting server, permission to this new server is not given autom...
18 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Create CLI command that shows the same Virtual fiber data as displayed in HMC GUI.

Currently when logged into V10 HMC code gui when you select an lpar -> select adapter view then the virtual fiberchannel adapter tab it shows a table with the following details: Virtual IO server, client server adapter, location and the pair of...
19 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Put Physical Optical Devices back in HMC GUI

In using only 1 DVD or RDX on POWER10 Servers, HMC Code V10R3M1060 and above left out the ability to See and manage Physical Optical from Virtual Storage Management. Systems with large number of LPAR's are sharing 1 DVD or RDX successfully until 1...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Return the Utility CoD Processor Capacity Setting - Unreported processor minutes.

When using Utility CoD processors it is important to know how may minutes have been used.
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC REST API: add endpoint to get Power system CoD

Add an endpoint to the HMC REST API to get CoD data like it can be done from HMC CLI by the command: lscod -m {Power_System_name} -t bill -r mem of course also for CPU: -r proc and with flag: -F activated_onoff_resources
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Certified Port 9920 - possibility to change the date of creation and end of validity

The ability to recreate a certificate with a start date and an end date. Actully you can only change the end date and there is no possibility to change the creation date.
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Under review

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