IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC)

The Hardware Management Console (HMC) is a hardware appliance that you can use to configure and control one or more managed systems. You can use the HMC to create and manage logical partitions and activate Capacity Upgrade on Demand. Using service applications, the HMC communicates with managed systems to detect, consolidate, and send information to service and support for analysis.

Types of Assets Fetched

This adapter fetches the following types of assets:

• Devices

Parameters

1. Host Name or IP Address (required) - The hostname or IP address of the IBM Power Hardware Management Console server. This port number must be specified in this field in the format webaddress.com:12443.

2. User Name and Password (required) - The credentials for a user account that has the permissions to fetch assets.

3. Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.

4. HTTPS Proxy (optional) - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.

5. HTTPS Proxy User Name (optional) - The user name to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.

6. HTTPS Proxy Password (optional) - The password to use when connecting to the server using the HTTPS Proxy.

7. To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

8. To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

APIs

Axonius uses the IBM Hardware Management Console Web Services API 2.14.1.

Required Ports

Axonius must be able to communicate with the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the following ports:

• TCP port 12443
  
  

Required Permissions

The value supplied in User Name must have READ permissions

Supported From Version

Supported from Axonius version 4.5