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IBM Storage Insights

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Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Storage Insights to report power supply issues in FlashSystem

Currently Storage Insights health status for a FlashSystem doesn't raise any alerts for power supply failure or power input issue. Everything shows green until the customer is notified via call-home or SNMP alerts set at the system level. The cust...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

Ability to create Custom Folders to store reports

Would like ability to create custom folders to store created reports other than the default folders provided. We have to scroll through a great number of reports to find those previously created.There is also no filter to help find generated repor...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Search for the node serial number

When we see a CSP ticket with a link to storage insights, the link points to the machine park, not the specific device for which the ticket is open. There is no search option to check for the node serial number. The node serial number is listed in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Tape Library Support

Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release