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Hardware Management Console

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Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Email notification to "authorized to create orders" users in Customer Initiated Upgrade whenever an ooCoD engine is activated/deactivated

Activating processors via ooCoD starts the billing process. Many customers stage an ooCoD record to be available "in a pinch" when the need for capacity may be time sensitive. Anyone with access to the SE could turn on engines and start billing wi...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow comments in lan firewall network info in HMC.

Depending on our data center, we have one or more HMCs installed at a location. On each HMC we have to allow many different subnets access in the various rules in the HMC lan firewall config. It's nice that we can input entire subnets in the lan f...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Disable/Deprecate ssh-rsa OpenSSH Host Keys on HMC

ssh-rsa SSH Host Keys were deprecated with OpenSSH 8.2 back in 2020. Can these host keys be disabled by default or a new option be added in the limited shell to be able to manipulate ssh host keys.
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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.
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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
4 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.
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Under review

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
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

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