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Hardware Management Console

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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...
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 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...
over 2 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.
about 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.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

lssvcevents command extention with events details

CLI command lssvcevents doesn't allow to view details related to serviceable event the same way as GUI interface (Select problem->View details). There is no information about SRC Extentions, failing partition id or failing partition name. Retri...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Increase log retention of HMC audittrail

Hello,We would like to be able to increase the log of the command result :lssvcevents -t console -d 365
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Upgrading OS on HMC can require root access

I just completed an OS upgrade to 2 HMCs. Both were at V8R840. The upgrade path was supplied by IBM. At the first attempt to upgrade from V8R840 to V8R860, the ISO file load failed with an "access denied" error. I tried to download from a local ft...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

HMC CLI, cleanup disk mapping on lpar deletion

equivalent HMC CLI for cleanup disk mapping on lpar deletion with UI.
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

LPM

Do you have more information how PHYP is calculation the required memory for LPM?
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Allow pwage expiration > 180 on user defined policy

When configuring user defined policy on HMC most values are configurable to what is needed to conform to our company password policy but pwage is not configurable to 365 or 99999. It is restricted to up to 180 days.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

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