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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Unprotected VMs View

At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP : User to do FLR limitations

The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure start time for SPP "inventory" jobs

Customer requires functionality to configure start time for SPP inventory jobs.Default Application Server InventoryDefault Hypervisor Inventory
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Auto-delete Old SPP System Logs from "/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives"

After generating a SPP System Log:sudo /opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/logcollectThe files are stores here:"/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives" There is currently no automated process that removes old System Logs. We recently had an issue with SPP where...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Being able to backup different nodes on an Always-on to dfferent vSnaps

We should be able to backup different nodes on an Always-on structure to different vSnap servers. If there are 2 or 3 nodes on an Always-on structure we can backup a chosen node to desired vSnap. But it doesn't allow us to choose which node to bac...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Backup SLA hung

More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need to sort VSNAP by name or by site in SPP GUI

We have more than 60 VSNAPs and we need to sort them by name or by site
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Adding a vSnap to 2 SPP appliances

The current Spectrum Protect Plus topology allows only one management (Spectrum Protect Plus VM) appliance to connect vSnaps.We should be able to add a vSnap to 2 different Spectrum Protect Plus appliances.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Detailed License Report - Spectrum Protect Plus

The license report in SPP is not self-explanatory.Its very easy to get confused on the returned results. It would be a great help, if it was possible to expand the sources, so it was possible to see what VM's and what application instances the res...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication status

Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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