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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...
about 1 month 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...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 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...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 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.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Enable the ICIC Web UI to add, display and modify metadata.

The OpenStack CLI allows you to define metadata to compute objects. This metadata should be displayed in the ICIC Web UI. We should also have the ability to create new metadata, update metadata or delete metadata.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

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.
11 months 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...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 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...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Add support for zVM Layer 3 VSWITCH to ICIC

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center should support both Layer 2 and Layer 3 VSWITCHs that are defined in zVM.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1