Hardware Management Console Readme

Firmware Limitation

• Virtual HMC appliance on Power is not supported on Power 9 with firmware FW930 until a future release. Attempts to install a virtual HMC appliance on FW930 will result in failure and upgrading to FW930 will cause an existing virtual HMC instance to fail to boot.
  
  

PTF MH01789 HMC V9 R1.921.0  Service Pack - for 7042 Machine Types or vHMC for x86 hypervisors (5765-HMW)

Enhancements and new function

• Enabled HMC to support P9 System 9080-M9S
  
• Enhanced HMC to support Partition Secure Boot
  
• Added support for Multi-Factor Authentication using PowerSC MFA
  
• Enabled HMC to support iSCSI device
  
  

List of fixes

• Fixed an issue where code update will fail when concurrent and non-concurrent levels are available in the same release and the user follows the wizard default path to find the latest current.  The error and message returned are E302F978 "Fix Pack Image not found."
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented error messages to display properly in "Create Partition" and "Deploy Template" panel when HMC locale is different from browser locale.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused HMC to generate service event E35A0006 under heavy load conditions with log files rotating very frequently.
  
• Added new column to display "CCIN" information in the Physical I/O adapter details panel along with feature codes and other details.
  
• Fixed a problem that can generate service event E355092F when there are many LDAP users configured on the HMC.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the event manager in HMC V9.1.920.x to interwork with the event manager on previous HMC versions.  Attempting to add another HMC may fail with "Connection could not be established with the management console"
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a failure in modification of partition processor values in UI when the HMC locale uses a different decimal separator from the browser locale.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed a user without access to an LPAR to activate the LPAR from command line interface (CLI) using  the current configuration.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect RMC status on  the HMC  for partitions after a NTP time adjustment.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented modification of  the "lpar start" policy parameter from UI with the following error:
  REST014B Please find error details below [An invalid attribute value was entered.  The attribute pair with the invalid value is "pend_mem_region_size=0".  Please correct the configuration data and retry the command.]
  
• Fixed a problem that caused the Server adapter Id in Edit connection panel for virtual Fibre Channel created with "next available slot" even when the user specified the id information. This occurred only when the Server Adapter field was not in focus or user did not click "enter".
  
• Added support to create different adapters Ids(VLANs) while attaching multiple networks to LPAR in a single operation.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused mkauthkeys to fail  on a hmc that has the ssh banner turned on.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented GUI Relational view to load when switching from gallery view/table view.
  
• Added event descriptions for Reference code B181BA24
  
• Improved error message to be displayed to user when LPM fails due to insufficient memory on destination system.
  
• Fixed the system backplane image for System 9080-MHE in the system plan.
• Fixed issue in display of PCM network utilization graphs when network traffic is minimal.
  
• Fixed an issue where adding IBMi hosted SCSI adapter is disabled when Virtual I/O Servers exist and are shutdown or without an active RMC connection.
  
• Added login details of ssh clients in secure log
  
• Fixed an issue  where importing an AIX install resource to HMC, does not show option for AIX 7.2
  
• Fixed an issue that caused excessive logging for message  "/opt/hsc/bin/backupLog: line 445: archiveCredMgrLogFile: command not found"
  
• Fixed an issue in displaying error messages while creating a partition from template wizard on a non-english locale
  
• Fixed an issue that caused excessive logging in /var/hsc/log/wlp/messages.log
  
  

Installation

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