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Hardware Management Console

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HMC: weak password rules

As default HMC sets weak password rules. This should not be the default. To provide a minimum security the medium security policy should be default. An additional strong policy provided by IBM would be fine. In addition the possibility to set a on...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC enhanced+ GUI, performance problem

We use HMC 8.8.6.0.3 MH01764.In the enhanced+ GUI we see a performance problems. 1. during refresh the GUI after/during shutdown and startup of LPARs. The refresh, for example, of "status" and "reference codes" work not in realtime, as accustomed ...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Two Factor Authentication for HMC GUI login

Using Two Factor Authentication for the HMC login page, especially for the GUI login.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Method to check uptime on lpar:s

We want to find out if a method to check uptime on many (100:s) of SLES partitions could be implemented in the HMC. Basically performing the #uptime command and cathing the output for all of them. An alternative is of course to script it and doing...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

V8R8.7.0 new interface needs long LPAR list

The new HMC interface (as opposed to classic) is mandatory in HMC version V8R8.7.0. In this new interface LPARs are displayed as icons by default but this can be switched to list view. The list view defaults to 20 LPARs. Our enterprise systems con...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Add an HMC LDAP config option to set the scope from the HMC gui

In HMC gui in the LDAP configuration add an option to specify the search scope.The matching command on the HMC CLI ischhmcldap -o s --scope sub
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

sortable columns in Power Enterprise Pool Management windows

When working in the Power Enterprise Pools Management window, it would be nice to be able to sort by columns the output in the Processor Resources and Memory Resources windows.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Show full HMC software version (lshmc -V) in Enhanced GUI

The Enhanced GUI does not show the full HMC software and patch level information. To access this information you need to run the lshmc -V command from an HMC command line. This is fine if you are logged on to locally to the console as you can open...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

HMC Add Physical Volume Dialog

Hello, when you add vscsi luns to a partition in menu Virtual Storage -> Add physical volume the dialog has a fixed size and in table within you cannot see all colums full sized.Even if your monitor has a wqhd resolution, the dialog is still fi...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Email Notification for Critical Console Backups

The ability to configure email notification for a "Scheduled Operation".
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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