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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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customer needs more information in Operations Center to be able to effectively perform disaster recovery.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to effectively perform Disaster Recovery (testing or real-life). This includes:- Volume history information for DB Backup/DB Snapshot.- DRM Volumes and status/location. - volume...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Provide OC / SP error that will notify us when server instance crash or hang

Is there an OC / SP error that will notify us when dsmserv is down (db2 is either down or up) and, notify us when an instance appears to be hung? IF that can be produced later on that would be a great advantage to keep administrators ahead with an...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

extend the Operations Center REST API by reporting functionality

extend the Operations Center REST API by functions to query reporting values, as they are provides by the "General Operations" report
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SP OC UI

Have a link from SP OC to the RFE community
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation center does not support working with server groups

Because of the size of our environment (30 servers) we use servergroups for several things like for instance routing a command to several servers at once. The use, creation and modification of server groups is currently not supported in operation ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC

System: Product Spectrum ProtectActor: User needing new feature We would like to manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC.As we have several instances and some with data retention licences.We would like to exclude them from th...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center should display the TDP Client version as well as BA Client API version

In Spectrum Protect OC. I have TDP SQL clients showing version 8.1.7.1. That version does not exist for TDP SQL clients but it does exist for Windows BA client which means that the TDP node is showing the BA client version.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

customer needs to be able to manage Spectrum Protect volumes not in defined within a storage pool.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to manage volumes not part of a storage pool. Specifically:- volumes containing exported data.- volumes containing backupsets.- DB backup/DBSnapshot media.- volumes correlated t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Proactive support service within Operations Center

Operations Center Proactive Support with Health monitor and Advisor.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center

HiI try to generate Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center but there is no monthly option available. Currently available options are either daily or weekly only. Would you please provide e-fix for the monthly option? My operati...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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