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And to add, of course there would/should be an ability to read the description field using CLI as well.
Hmmm I did send a comment in prior to my 3rd one but I see it didn't make it, Here it is again :
In the "General Settings" I can change the managed systems name via command :
ssh $HMC -l hscroot "chsyscfg -r sys -m $CURRENT_NAME -i \"new_name=$NEW_NAME\" "
We have for over a year, close to 2, been automating our PowerVM environment from top to bottom and have made some outstanding successes, improving our efficiencies by order of 5000%.
I should be able to also change the Description field in this pane as I can for the Systems name.
Suggestion possibly via :
ssh $HMC -l hscroot "chsyscfg -r sys -m $CURRENT_NAME -i \"desc=$NEW_DESCRIPTION\" "
Being that ALL of our automation is done via CLI, using another technology like Rest API would be a one-off implementation and won't work.
By implementing this ability into the HMC codebase it would make the HMC more consistent thereby making our solutions we've crafted consistent. Truly this wouldn't/shouldn't be a big fix for IBM to implement.
Please implement the ability to change the Description field as we today can change the System name.
Thanks,
Scott Gruber
One more thing, we can also change the VIO name as well via :
ssh $HMC -l hscroot "chsyscfg -r lpar -m $MANAGED -i \"name=$OLD_VIO_NAME,new_name=$NEW_VIO_NAME\" "
so we should also be able to change the VIO's description field too as requested for Managed Systems.
Thanks,
Scott Gruber
Hi Scott,
Description field for managed system/lpar/vios is settable & readable via the Rest API programmatically and can be used for automation. Can you please let us know if that addresses your requirement ?
Thanks.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - Power Hardware Management Console
Component - Product functionality
Operating system - Other
Source - Client
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - PowerVM
Component - PowerVM
Operating system - IBM AIX
Source - Client