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Hardware Management Console

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    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...
    about 9 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 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

    Uptime of HMC BMC console

    Hello, In some cases, with multi administrator's environment it will be good to know how long is HMC's system console up and running and if it was rebooted.I insert screenshot where this could be added and visible, maybe in part Host's identificat...
    6 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Create SAN Zones from HMC (or from VIOS) for vFC-Client-LPARs

    Using PeerZones simplifies Zoning and provides a base that can easily be expanded.Once the principals are prepared, it is easy to add new clients. This could also be extended to the storage system configuration for each host. HMC is in a pivotal p...
    29 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC virtual console, increase the terminal windows rows

    When doing installations and I want to save the output, todays virtual console is not saving enough rows.In normal situations one of course use a terminal session to the virtual server but when working with network or as an active work viosupgrade...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add GUI options for LU functions in Shared Storage Pool

    Today there is not a GUI option to handle snapshots of logical volumes / disks in Shared Storage Pool.
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Allow HMC to get OS version from Novalink

    If there is no RMC connection to the HMC from the partition(s), the OS level cannot be determined. This leaves the OS-level field "blank" on the HMC. This influences tools that rely on the OS version, like LPAR2RRD and also makes it more difficult...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Fibre Channel Port Label

    The should be unification between labels set with the labelvios command for FC ports and the VIO FC device attribute setting.
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Fast switch between VIOSes in GUI

    When you inspect or change the configuration of one VIOS on the managed system, you usually want to repeat the same on the second VIOS. To achieve it, if GUI is now in one of the VIOS properties, the administrator must select first the managed sys...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    enable drill-down to full-size view of per-LPAR "Usage trends" thumbnail-sized graphs from the PCM table

    Currently in PCM views the HMC web UI shows graphs pertaining to the entire frame and a table of LPARs underneath with some thumbnail-sized per-LPAR utilization graphs. It should be possible to select one or more of these LPAR entries and view/"zo...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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