A structured list of all CMC FAQs

This structured list of all FAQs provides easy access to information that can get you started with CMC. To see the list of topics of a particular section, click any of the following links.   

• Getting Started
• Support
• Settings
• Capacity Monitoring
• Enterprise Pools 2.0
• Inventory
• Logging
• Public Cloud
• Patch Planning
• Notifications
• CMC API

Getting Started

• Filling in the CMC Activation Form
• Understanding the CMC subscription for Power Systems
• Logging in to CMC
• Managing applications
• Managing resource roles
• Managing users
• Users and Security: Events
• Minimum required levels of HMC and system firmware

Support

• Tracking open tickets
• Contacting CMC support
• Troubleshooting

Settings

• Cloud Connector Settings
• Masking CMC attributes

Capacity Monitoring

• Capacity Monitoring: Overview
• Capacity Monitoring: Settings
• Capacity Monitoring : Performance of all systems
• Capacity Monitoring: Performance of a selected system
• Capacity Monitoring: Comparing the performance of multiple systems
• Capacity Monitoring: Performance of all partitions
• Capacity Monitoring: Performance of a selected partition

Enterprise Pools 2.0

• EP 2.0: Overview
• EP 2.0: Creating pools
• EP 2.0: Inventory
• EP 2. 0: Core usage
• EP 2.0: Memory usage
• EP 2.0: Budget
• EP 2.0: Usage statement
• EP 2.0: Events
• EP 2.0: Support for Licensed Program Products
• EP 2.0: Non-admin user access
• EP 2.0: Settings
• EP 2.0: Monthly billing
• EP 2.0: Virtual Serial Number (VSN) and IBM i software tier support

Inventory

• Inventory: Dashboard
• Inventory: CMC subscription information
• Inventory: Hardware information for a selected managed system
• Inventory: Managed systems and HMCs overview
• Inventory: Partitions and Virtual I/O Servers
• Inventory: Shared Storage Pool clusters

Logging

• Logging: Partition lifecycle operations
• Logging: Live partition mobility and remote restart operations

Power Virtual Server

• Power Virtual Server: Configuring IBM CMC Data Collector (VDC)
• Power Virtual Server: Configuring IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) APIs

Patch Planning

• Patch Planning: Inventory information
• Patch Planning: Patch recommendations for a resource

Notifications

Viewing notifications

CMC API

• CMC API – Main page
• GET /cm/usage/ManagedSystem
  • Response schema and parameter description for /cm/usage/ManagedSystem
• GET /cm/usage/ManagedSystem/{ms-uuid}/Partition
  
  • Response schema and parameter description for /cm/usage/ManagedSystem/{ms-uuid}/Partition
• GET /inventory/cmc/ManagedSystem
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /inventory/cmc/ManagedSystem
• GET /inventory/cmc/ManagedSystem/{ms-uuid}/Partition
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /inventory/ManagedSystem/{ms-uuid}/Partition
• GET /inventory/cmc/ManagementConsole
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /inventory/cmc/ManagementConsole
• GET /v1/ep/inventory/tags
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /v1/ep/inventory/tags
• GET /v1/ep/usage/pools
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for v1/ep/usage/pools
• GET /v1/ep/usage/tags
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /v1/ep/usage/tags
• GET /v2/ep/inventory/tags
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /v2/ep/inventory/tags
• GET /v2/ep/usage/pools
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /v2/ep/usage/pools
• GET /v2/ep/usage/tags
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /v2/ep/usage/tags
• GET /v2/inventory/cmc/tags
  
  • Response syntax and parameter description for /v2/inventory/cmc/tags
• DELETE /v2/inventory/cmc/tags/<tag_name>
• POST /v2/inventory/cmc/tags/<tag_name>
• POST /v2/inventory/cmc/tags/attach
• POST /v2/inventory/cmc/tags/detach
• POST v2/inventory/cmc/tags