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IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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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...
about 23 hours 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...
about 23 hours 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

Security group rule editing

In addition to add and delete rule into manage security group rules, could be useful to have an edit rule too, in order to modify an existing rule without the need to delte it and redefine again.
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Edit security group rule

Add the possibility to edit a security group rule (not only add or delete) in icic GUI
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 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?)
16 days 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...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1

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