HMC Management - Administration
These tasks describe the administration tasks you can perform using your HMC.
- Change User Password
This task allows you to change your existing password used for logging onto the HMC. A password verifies your user ID and your authority to log in to the console. - Manage User Profiles and Access
Manage your system users that log on to the HMC. A user profile is a combination of a user ID, server authentication method, permissions, and a text description. Permissions represent the authority levels assigned to the user profile for the objects the user has permission to access. - Manage Task and Resource Roles
Use this task to define and customize user roles. - Manage Users and Tasks
Display the logged on users and the tasks they are running. - Manage Certificates
Use this task to manage the certificates used on your HMC. It provides the capability of getting information on the certificates used on the console. This task allows you to create a new certificate for the console, change the property values of the certificate, and work with existing and archived certificates or signing certificates. - KDC Configuration
View the key distribution center (KDC) servers that are used by this HMC for Kerberos remote authentication. - Configuring the HMC so that it uses LDAP authentication
Configure your HMC so that it uses LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) authentication. - Remote Command Execution
This task is used to enable remote command execution using the ssh facility. - Remote Virtual Terminal
A Remote Virtual Terminal connection is a terminal connection to a logical partition from another remote HMC. Use this task to enable Remote Virtual Terminal access for remote clients. - Open Restricted Shell Terminal
Open a command line session. - Lock HMC Screen
Learn how to lock the local Hardware Management Console (HMC) screen. - Change Language and Locale
This task sets the language and location for the HMC. After you select a language, you can select a locale associated with that language. - Create Welcome Text
This task allows you to customize the welcome message or to display a warning message that appears on the Welcome window before you log onto the HMC. You can use this text to notify users of certain corporate policies or security restrictions applying to the system. - Manage Data Replication
This task enables or disables customized data replication. Customized data replication allows another HMC to obtain customized console data from or send data to this HMC. - Managing Install Resources
Add or remove operating environment installation resources for your HMC. - Enhanced password policy
You can enforce password requirements for locally authenticated users by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). The enhanced password policy function allows the system administrator to set password restrictions. The enhanced password policy applies to the systems that have HMC installed. - Managing the Virtual I/O Server image repository
As of Version 7.7, or later, you can store the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) images from a saved image or a Network Installation Management (NIM) server on the HMC. The stored VIOS images can be used for VIOS installation. You must be an HMC super administrator (hmcsuperadmin) to install the VIOS image.
Parent topic: HMC Management tasks
Last updated: Fri, December 06, 2019