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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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CDM appliance self-monitoring

The functionality of the CDM processes themselves should be monitored on the appliance and the possibility to receive alerts when the main CDM program has problems.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add SNMP monitoring capabilities to CDM

The IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management appliance does provide SMTP to send alerts when an SLA or job fails.For integration in monitoring/event management tools, the ability to select SNMP trap sending is required.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Detailed progress screen for cloud offload and replication operations.

On the Spectrum Protect Plus backup screen, we can see detailed information about the backed up machines and the process in the progress section.But we cannot see detailed information during replication and cloud offload operations.Replication and...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

add a NetApp Snapshot based backup and restore functionality to SPP

Addition of a function to secure NetApp file server with SPP on vSnap server. This should be done on the basis of NetApp snapshots. The feature should be able to replace the current Spectrum Protect feature for NetApp data protection at the file l...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Automatic update check should be disabled

We want the current versions not to be searched automatically when we enter the administrative interface, A button can be placed for this and only those who want to upgrade over the internet can use this feature.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP File Restore GUI/Wizard

The steps for the VM FileRestore are not clear and simple enough according to the client.In a restore situation (always associated with stress), the customer has to know or consider too many things in order to perform the file restore. For example...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need function in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of SQL Server database

Customer requires functionality in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of a SQL Server database. This is related to GDPR.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

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