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Hardware Management Console

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    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

    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).
    11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC GUI > Implement a "button" for opening an IBM HW/SW Support Case that automatically pulls in data (S/N, OS Level etc.) from an LPAR or Managed System

    This is a request for enhancing the functionality of the HMC GUI with: A button / or menu that enables the user to open an IBM Support case directly and easily from the HMC GUI By selecting the affected LPAR / VM or Manages System Base data needed...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    openssh 9.x with HMC 10

    align to openssh 9.x available on AIX and Linux . i.e: legacy SCP protocol for file transfers instead of the SFTP protocol a.s.o.
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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

    Improve HMC VIOS Maintenance option reliability

    Sinve HMC V10 VIOS Maintenance option is supported but the serviceability and reliability need improvement: -Restoring operation after vios maintenance is trustless. (shared ethernet SEA state)-vNIC Auto Priority Failover -a.s.o.
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    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...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    LPM should not switch to Default Processor Pool

    During LPM via HMC-GUI (V10 R3 SP1051 / MF71688) the setting for processor pool switches back to the Default Processor Pool, if not explicitely changed by drop-down menu. Since Processor Pools are very important to us (licences) AND there's a veri...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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

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