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Hardware Management Console

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    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.
    over 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...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    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
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    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

    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...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Enable the use of VLAN tagging for HMC LAN/network ports

    The HMC’s LAN/network ports do not accept VLAN‑tagged traffic when a public IP is configured. They expect untagged (access) frames on a single VLAN. If an HMC LAN port is connected to a switch port set as a trunk (carrying multiple 802.1Q‑tagged V...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    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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