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Hardware Management Console

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HMC File perms on /var/log/messages

File permissions of -rw-r----- on the /var/log/messages file do not allow any users other than hscroot to read the file. We require all HMC users to authenticate with their own accounts (in the hmcsuperadmin role).
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Command to import/export/edit an LPAR's 'Description' field now available in the Enhanced UI

It would be great to be able to import from / export to CSV the data in the LPAR's 'description' field that is now available in the Enhanced UI.
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

HMC WIldcard Certificate Support

We are getting crap from providers now that having an HMC with a self signed certificate is no longer acceptable. Such a device may be banned from their equipment racks and it now violates various requirements. It's not just the HMC of course it's...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Multiple lpar performance

Enhancement to monitor multiple lpar performance from HMC at managed system level. Presently only individual lpar performance can be monitored. To understand and better utilize resources by comparing or analyzing multiple lpar performance at manag...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

enhance HMC command saveupgdata to allow FTP to another server as non-root user.

This is a DCR enhancement to HMC command saveupgdata to support saved files to HMC hard drive to be send over to a remote site that can then used as a backkup files to create USB or DVD media for recovery purposes. With this capabilities, HMC save...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Allow install of client CA certificates to the HMC to allow SSL proxy functionality.

Many organizations use proxy servers to control/manage external traffic. Some of these (Palo Alto Networks, for one) create a man-in-the-middle certificate so that SSL traffic can be proxied the same way as HTTP traffic. An example of this activit...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 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

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...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Need FQDN support in CMC instead of native IP Addresses

IBM CMC is using three server for HMC/CMC connecting to Bluemix CMC Console.boschgermany-powercloud.eu-de.mybluemix.net Port 443 HTTPS149.81.75.251 Port 443 HTTPS161.156.149.119 Port 443 HTTPSWe need for all thre a FQDN and not IP Adr.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

The creation of vFC adapters with automatic generation of the vWWNs should check, if the vWWNs to be assigned are not alread

The creation of vFC adapters with automatic generation of the vWWNs should check, if the vWWNs to be assigned are not already in use, at least on the Managed Systems managed by the same HMC.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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