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Hardware Management Console

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    Awarness of multiple HMC's in the GUI (arbitration)

    There is currently no ability to see the HMC arbitration status in the GUI. When deploying redundant HMC's that manages the same system(s) it would be good to see the status of both the primary and secondary HMC in terms of their role so the user ...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    HMC automated installation

    It's possible to have option for fully automated installation physical HMC and virtual HMC ? This is time consuming in case IBM support request as part of solution reinstallation of HMC code and restore configuration from backup. It will simplify ...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Other implementation of IBM HMC grafical vterm needed because Java webstart is deprecated

    The graphical implementation of the HMC vterm requires Java webstart (*.jnlp). Java webstart is deprecated by current releases of OpenJDK en Oracle Java, IBM should use a different implementation for the graphical vterm of the HMC, based on common...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Add status info while searching available levels of firmware update.

    When trying to use:Systems > Firmware > Update system firmware (for Power machine)the wizard gets stuck at Choose firmware type and target levelspecifically when I click on Search Available levels It can be stuck for anywhere 10-20-60 minute...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Need maintenance mode switch for Power Server at HMC

    When doing installation of new Power Server or HW Maintenance or FW Updates etc. it happens very often that the HMC is producing a call home to IBM. This is very true when installing a new power Server and HMC are connected to FSP /eBMC. But these...
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

    More usability on HMC UI panel to add vNIC Backing Device to an LPAR

    HMC UI panel to add vNIC Backing Device: please consider to add physical port label next to the physical port location physical port label in addition to the physical port location code helps to identify the correct ressource to add additional bac...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    UAK expiry - send an alert from the HMC before it expires

    When a UAK expires it creates a lot of noise - the attention LED is lit against a managed system, a serviceable event is generated/sent and an alert sent to every LPAR on the managed system. Whilst I am aware that it is possible to automate the UA...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    physical port on destination side for the migrating client LPAR

    Physical port (FCS)on destination side for the migrating client LPAR can not see during the LPM on HMC GUI , so as mentioned the option is only available from HMC CLI with the command below: ~> migrlpar -o v -m <source_managed_system> -t ...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    user customizable HMC smtp event-notification

    The existing HMC smtp event-notification feature is suboptimal. It is missing essential information and email subject is cosmetic verbiage. Make it possible for user to customize subject and mail content extracted from HMC serviceable-events. The ...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Add ability to set the idle timeout when LDAP auto-manage is enabled

    Due to recent audit findings, we are enabling auto-manage using LDAP groups to audit users who have access to the HMC. The plan is to have users inherit user properties defined in the LDAP groups. During testing, we noticed when LDAP is configured...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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