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Hardware Management Console

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    Align "upgvios" (HMC command) with "viosupgrade" (VIOS command)

    As all (Ansible) development work has now stopped on the ibm.power_vios collection it would be very helpful to align the capabilities / command line flags of the (HMC command) "upgvios" with those of the (VIOS command) "viosupgrade". In doing so, ...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add GUI options for LU functions in Shared Storage Pool

    Today there is not a GUI option to handle snapshots of logical volumes / disks in Shared Storage Pool.
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Allow HMC to get OS version from Novalink

    If there is no RMC connection to the HMC from the partition(s), the OS level cannot be determined. This leaves the OS-level field "blank" on the HMC. This influences tools that rely on the OS version, like LPAR2RRD and also makes it more difficult...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Fibre Channel Port Label

    The should be unification between labels set with the labelvios command for FC ports and the VIO FC device attribute setting.
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Fast switch between VIOSes in GUI

    When you inspect or change the configuration of one VIOS on the managed system, you usually want to repeat the same on the second VIOS. To achieve it, if GUI is now in one of the VIOS properties, the administrator must select first the managed sys...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) will help HMC to integrate in the Agentic-AI ecosystem

    Unfortunately, it is currently only possible to execute actions or collect information via REST API,HMC cli and the GUI. However, in the age of AI and WatsonX, other interfaces are needed. It would be good if MCP services were also offered in the ...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Allow VIOS/Novalink as proxy for RMC connection (auto-discovery?)

    In our case the HMC does not have an RMC connection to the AIX and Linux LPARs due to our networking setup; it DOES have an RMC connection to the Virtual I/O Servers, which in turn have an RMC connection to Novalink, which acts as the managing ins...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Few confirmation screen before power off manage system

    It has been observed a couple of times in the past that the managed server on the processors (i.e. the whole machine) has been powered off accidently since the enhanced version of the GUI was available. To avoid another accident in future can we h...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    We request that the System Location field be queryable from the HMC command line, similar to other fields.

    In the HMC GUI, if you navigate to System Resources, then Systems, and finally System Settings, you will find fields labeled "System Location" and "Description." These fields allow for free-form text entry. Would like the ability to query these fi...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Add a flag to HMC CLI commands to display attribute names inline with attributes when using -F filter on atributes (similiar to --header)

    When scripting on HMC CLI you have basically two options for filtering attributes. For example 1. lshmcusr | grep $USER name=dummy,taskrole=hmcoperator,description='Dummy User',pwage=30,resourcerole=ALL:,authentication_type=local,remote_webui_acce...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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