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Hardware Management Console

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Ansible Collection ibm.power_hmc: Secrets from environment variables, extra_vars and AWX/AAP secrets

Dear IBM team, the Ansible Collection ibm.power_hmc lacks a secure way to provide secrets at the moment. Could you please add native support for secrets lookup from environment variables, Ansible extra_vars and AWX/AAP secrets? This makes the usag...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

Support vHMC on Hyper-v

Many customers are using vmware, but with new license/broadcom challenges then other hypervisors are asked for. Smaller sites dont have a separate Power systems (or 2) to use for the vHMC so they are forced to either purchase the CR2 (best choice ...
12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

1040 dashboard improvement: Resource summary : partitions deactivated instead of warning

1040 dashboard design changed required to improve user experience: under Resource summary ; remove deactivated partitions from the warning counter. Or even better let the deactivated partions have a unique counter: i.e. "inactive".
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

add cli/REST path/command to allow a) creation of tag b) removal of tag against resource and c) querying of resources tags (which tags are assigned) - perhaps field in lssyscfg

HMC GUI 10 provides 'tags' to allow functional grouping of systems and instance/lpars however these are not exposed as query able through REST or cli commands to allow management tools to make decisions / use the same tags
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

CLI option to switch on/off HMC performance data collection

we need an CLI option to switch on/off/configure HMC performance data collection feature to integrate in system-automation (eg. Ansible).
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Automate pedbg and VIO snap from HMC

Automate creation and upload of pedbg and VIO snap from HMC via UI to optimize IBM SR handling.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Call Home test for vHMC

At the moment there is no way to check, if vHMC Call Home configuration is working properly.As verified by IBM Support Case neither "Test connection" during configuration wizard nor "Creating a serviceable event" with checked flag "Test problem re...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Instantaneous consumption of IBM Power servers

With the great challenges of energy reduction that we will have to face and in the perspective of "greenIT", it would be interesting to me to be able to know the instantaneous consumption of the Power (and others) infrastructure . As requested by ...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

User friendly logging of any change activity on HMC for LPAR and Power Server itself

Would like to have a recording of activities like change,add,remove things for LPAR and/or Power Server in the HMC. The task window is not enough and shows only minimal change information.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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