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Storage Copy Data Management

Storage Copy Data Management should support authentication using RedHat IDM

We are using a lot of IBM products and we use a RedHat based IdM (LDAP) server for centralized user-management. The information in LDAP decides what systems someone can login too, and also which role/permissions they get. This works for IBM produc...
about 2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Functionality to Download Catalog Backup from IBM Defender Copy Data Management Admin Console.

Currently, the IBM Defender Copy Data Management admin console lacks the functionality to download the catalog backup. In case the root/administrator passwords are not working, there is no facility to download the catalog backup from IBM Defender ...
4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Official Procedure for Resetting root User Password on IBM Defender Copy Data Management Server.

As per IBM Defender Copy Data Management documentation, the procedure to reset root user password is unavailable. It gets quiet difficult if the root and Administrator passwords are lost, resulting in loosing the CLI functionality for IBM Defender...
4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Add retry logic to increase resilience when there is a short-duration DNS outage

The current version of the system will result in a job failure when there is a short-duration DNS outage. The current code will result in a job failure when this happens as there apparently is no logic to retry a failed DNS operation. This has led...
5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Enable SMTP configuration to use SSL/TLS communication

We recommend implementing SSL/TLS encryption for SMTP configuration to ensure secure, encrypted communication between clients and mail servers. This prevents plaintext transmission of authentication credentials and email content, mitigating risks ...
5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Registering Storage Virtualize Provider

Currently in order to register (as Provider) a Storage Virtualize or Storage VIrtualize for Snapshot the CDM identity is based on name/password credentials. It would be preferred to have user/certificate as a more secure alternative.
6 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Scanning AIX volumes

In AIX environments (including Oracle DBs with ASM) most of the attacks are lending to AIX volumes like boot and other. It would be advisable to allow Sentinel to scan them under Storage Virtualize for Snapshot backup jobs.
6 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Allow the scan job definition to automatically handle changes to the application instance name, eliminating the need for manual updates to the scan job definition

Currently the CDM scan job definition root selection has the server's name and instance name. This condemns us to change the CDM job spec every time that the source is updated (typically at least 2x per year). The scan job will fail if this is not...
7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

CDM - VMware backup job - Whole datastore selected - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.

Possibility to scan whole datastore - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.
7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Ability to set an alternate directory for the creation of EPIC, iris.cpf file, within a properties file on the CDM server.

This ability will help us make better use of the CDM product and avoid failing or long running jobs.
8 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

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