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Hardware Management Console

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go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
6 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Show under active users, the users connected to IBMi console.

Currently under active users, we can see the ones connected on the GUI (session ID X) and also connected in SSH (Session ID pts/x). But we can't see the ones connected using IBM i console connections through the HMC. It would be nice to have that ...
6 days ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Submitted

"enhance" capture lpar as template to actually include all properties of the lpar

Currently, vscsi storage (except for SSP) is omitted during capture. Including all storage from source lpar would make the feature do what it says on the tin.
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Backup MFA Server on HMCs

We have implemented MFA on all our HMCs via PowerSC MFA Servers, but in the Multi Factor Authentication configuration of HMC, has only one Server HostName or IP address of PowerSC MFA Server to configure! That means that if we failover to the back...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Email notification to "authorized to create orders" users in Customer Initiated Upgrade whenever an ooCoD engine is activated/deactivated

Activating processors via ooCoD starts the billing process. Many customers stage an ooCoD record to be available "in a pinch" when the need for capacity may be time sensitive. Anyone with access to the SE could turn on engines and start billing wi...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow comments in lan firewall network info in HMC.

Depending on our data center, we have one or more HMCs installed at a location. On each HMC we have to allow many different subnets access in the various rules in the HMC lan firewall config. It's nice that we can input entire subnets in the lan f...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Disable/Deprecate ssh-rsa OpenSSH Host Keys on HMC

ssh-rsa SSH Host Keys were deprecated with OpenSSH 8.2 back in 2020. Can these host keys be disabled by default or a new option be added in the limited shell to be able to manipulate ssh host keys.
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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).
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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