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Search results: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SP+ Syslog alerting

Please add an ability to have events sent via syslog messages to external receivers. There should be an ability to include select informational events for login/logout security auditing as well as backup and restore events.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Enhanced VMs view. Colomns sorting.

Enhanced the view of the VMs. Sorting by columns. Adding colums in the view so we can see options selected per VMS. Options per VMs in a reports also.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM On IBM Spectrum Virtualize can not do FC/GM Workflow

when crating an SLA selecting Spectrum Virtualize, can not doa FC then GM workflow, this is fully supported by the storage
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP 10.1.3 Exchange DAG Production Restore: User must put in name of .EDB file

If you select "Production Restore" you can restore to the original location on the original instance or a alternate location on the original instance. If you are restoring to the original location on the original instance, you do not need to enter...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Exchange Mailbox recovery tool takes a long time open a small mailbox

In our SPP training lab we have 5 DAG's separated on 10 Servers. The DAG consists of 2 dedicated Exchange Servers Each.When trying to open a Mail Box using the tool after the SPP granular recovery completes. It can take between 15 to 20 minutes to...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration