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IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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    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...
    3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

    Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

    ICIC should provide the ability to drop MACID from the NICDEF Directory Entry

    By default ICIC defines a MACID for the NICDEF entry when a VM is created. We have configured our zVM LPARs to utilize a SYSTEM MAC PREFIX but when a MACID is provided the LPAR uses the USER PREFIX for the MAC Address. In order for us to set the U...
    10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

    Allow manual setting of the ANSIBLE_HOST parameter

    When the OpenStack Inventory plugin is used against ICIC the ANSIBLE_IP gets set to any of assigned IP addresses for the VM at random. For multi-interfaces VMs we should be able to set the preferred interface to use for ANSIBLE_IP.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

    Enhance ICIC to provide event notifications in addition to email

    We would like to integrate ICIC with our event management tools (IBM Netcool Omnibus/Impact, Cloud Pak for AIOps) so that events are not sent via email but rather to these tools. At a minimum if we could send a webhook to our Omnibus probe, it wou...
    10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

    Edit security group rule

    Add the possibility to edit a security group rule (not only add or delete) in icic GUI
    10 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 ...
    7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Hostnames allowed in the security groups rules

    Today we can define rules inside a security group only using the source or target IP. Since sometimes the rules are related to some company services or sometimes the ip changes, should be useful to have the possibility to define the rules not only...
    9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Multiple users role assignment

    If you need to give some role to a list of users, if select the users from the gui ad assign the role, only the first user got the role, so you have to assign the same role to the user one to one. It can be useful you selecting more users from the...
    9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

    Edit a shared security group from any project

    For the moment a security group can be edited only if the user is in the project where it has been created, it would be great to edit a shared security group from any project (maybe with a notice in a popup?)
    10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

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