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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Stream Audit Log entries Spectrum Protect Plus

It should be possible to stream the Spectrum Protect Plus audit log to a central collector, much like Syslog. At the moment it's only possible to download the audit log (or parts of it) using HTTP or the REST API.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap recovery from ISP offload

vSnaps of spectrum protect plus are at the moment secured by replicating the data to another vSnap. Currently only the backup data are offloaded through S3, but not the metadata vSnap needed to recover itself in case of crash or cyber attack.We ne...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make VSNAP Application Independent of OS Kernel

ISPP VSNAP Application on Physical Server is bound to specific Kernel Version. Upgrade of Redhat Version cause Application to fail and it doesnot come up.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

encrypted standard/archive copy to S3 like SP

If I want to save the data securely in the cloud - without extra encryption of the buckets by S3 Provider, then the vSnap encryption on the VSnap doesn’t help either. The bucket file is always stored unencrypted. We would like to implement a func...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support nested groups from Active Directory

Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration