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ICIC Compatibility with Pure Storage (Terraform Dependency)

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) currently does not support integration with Pure Storage platforms. This limitation prevents ICIC from being deployed as the infrastructure management layer. This constraint has implications because Terraform...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Update environment checker

There are some scenarios and situations that are not included as part of the environment checker that can have impact on the ICIC services. ICIC should ensure that logrotate settings are correct, check for required directory permissions and secont...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Option to change "instance_name_template" after installation to modify the virtual machine prefix

During installation, there is a property in the config.properties file that defines the virtual machine prefix for the deployed systems. The property is called "instance_name_template" and gets set in the nova configuration to define the virtual m...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Global change for default_admin_userid after installation

During ICIC installation, there is an optional parameter for z/VM configuration, "default_admin_userid," that when populated will add a LOGONBY statement to the z/VM User Directory of virtual machine deployments. This parameter is set on the confi...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Authentication logging and auditing to include user names

Currently the keystone and audit logs in ICIC use the user's unique id from openstack while logging the activities. The mapping for user id to user name is available through openstack commands on the management node. If the log files are uploaded ...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Service Now Discovery on ICIC

In order to auto create CMDB entries on Service Now related to the assets running into ICIC, the support for Service Now discovery is needed.Service now discovery is compatible with Openstack environments using the related API, and can natively di...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Support for RHEL10 on ICIC 1.2.3

Current virtual machine guest OS support for ICIC 1.2.3 only goes up to RHEL9.4. There have been customer requests to include RHEL10 support since it has been released.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Manage host attached DASD with Cinder to attach and detach to ICIC VMs

In some storage performance needs scenarios (i.e. Openshift ODF Disks) is required to have very good disk performance, that cannot be achieved using QCOW2 files. So it could be vey useful to direct attach/deatch a DASD (online in the hosts and not...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Capability to view all Cinder Volume belonging to all projects (from ibm_default)

As we can do with VM, we need te capability to list all cinder volumes from a specific storage provider / template, from ibm-default ticking a checkbox "show all Projects's volumes".It can be very useul to have a snaphot on how many a where are th...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Set predefined uid and gid to ICIC openstack users

In oreder to preserve the permissions of files and components of ICIC across update and reinstallation, could be useful to define some specific and predefined uid and gid for openstack working users like glance, nova, neutron , etc. Maybe in case ...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted