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Hardware Management Console

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HMC enhanced gui compact LPAR listing

For the HMC Enhanced GUI: Under the partition list view, it's important to be able to get a compact overview of LPARs and their characteristics - ideally without scrolling. There are some current limitations to the visual representation - specific...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

HMC V9 GUI Physical IO adapters firmware level display field

Currently with HMC V9 GUI, there is no way to display Physical IO adapters firmware levels, This can be added as an additional filed view under the server Physical IO adapters View.
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

DLPAR "move" adapter option in Enhanced HMC GUI

System: Enhanced HMC GUIActor: DLPAR physical adapter Desc: DLPAR is used to dynamically move a physical adapter from one LPAR to another. In the Classic GUI, this option could be initiated from the current LPAR that the adapter was allocated to, ...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

VMTools installed in Virtual HMC

Now that Virtual HMC is supported to install in VMware environments it would be very nice if the installer came with VMTools or if there were some way to install VMTools on the Virtual HMC VM. These tools help with issues when accessing the VM dir...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Provide RSCT Domain filtering options for managed systems co-managed by HMC and PowerVM NovaLink

In PowerVC environments that utilize IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) for Power Enterprise Pools (PEP), it's common for managed systems to be co-managed by HMC and PowerVM NovaLink. PowerVM NovaLink is in controller mode to facilitate operations...
16 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

HMC V10R2 - Configuration of the initial screen

HMC V10R2M1040 came with the beautiful dashboard as the initial screen. Unfortunately not everyone likes to see the dashboard. Some of colleagues would like to see the list of the managed systems as the initial screen in HMC - same as with V10R2M1...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

HMC API Json support

It's important that HMC API support Json format.We would like use HMC API and integrate them on our API systems.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

HMC should be enabled to use NTP slew mode

NTP can be configured to slew the clock. When slewing the clock the time on the system is incremented slower until the system clock is in sync with the time on the reference system.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

command redirection for HMC rsh-shell

classical command redirection not available in HMC rsh-shell. ping 192.168.1.10 > ping_test.txtbash : ping_test.txt: restricted : cannot redirect output
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

HMC Key Length of Self Signed Certificates

According to our information, at the moment and on the latest HMC version (V9R2M950) the key length of self signed certificates is fix and 2048 Bit (RSA) and 256 Bit (ECC), respectively
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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