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Hardware Management Console

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Creating and Signing Certificates on HMC

In order to use Creating and Signing Certificates on HMC, you have to invalidate the existing Certificate and use a self-signed certificate. If you have a currently valid certificate, and are requesting a new certificate using a CSR prior to exist...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Ability to save console logs on a linux virtual terminal/console

Provide ability to retain/save console logs (hvc0) on a linux console terminal (vtmenu)
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

If ROHA is used LPM should not change the "desired" value

See Salesforce Ticket TS001277889 In case of an LPM operation (if no other profile has been specified) the "current profile" is migrated to the target CEC. So ie. LPM operation changed the "Desired" value of the processing units. Per default this ...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

HMC command output documentation

There is no official IBM document explaining the outputs for HMC commands. Therefore a customer must guess what HMC command output means or open a support ticket for an explanation.
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

ssr

The customer found they can't add the virtual adapter last Friday.The HMC called out the HMC could not visit the VIOS database.We asked the customer collected the pedbg,iqyy and the VIOSs' snap.Then we opened a PMH 57449,141,672.The tsg thought th...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 6 Not under consideration

Remove Restricted I/O Mode

I have opened a PMR with regard to a SYSPLAN deployment.We have 2x identical 8484 22A systems. We are planning to run 2x VIOS servers and 15x IBM i LPARs. I have configured one system with dual VIOS, 15x IBM i LPARs and all the required virtual fi...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Port 22 is to be changed for HMC access(SSH)

The port 22 is fixed for SSH within HMC. As per our Information Security Observation, The known port 22 is vulnerable and can be hacked. We require to change this port to some other number.
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 6 Not under consideration

Allowed to access python on HMC through the CLI

Allow access to python on the HMC. We would like to use our ansible server to automate certain tasks on the HMC. From the CLI it looks like I cant access it when I run python --version. It seems to be out there ls -l /bin/python*lrwxrwxrwx 1 root ...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

HMC Enhanced UI lacking client slot ID option for vSCSI adapters

The enhanced UI in the HMC is lacking the ability to choose a slot id for the client vSCSI adapter and forces the next available slot id on the client LPAR which may vary from LPAR to LPAR. This is not the case with the classic UI where you have f...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

HMC offload

vHMC unable to offload problem data to USB.
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Planned for future release

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