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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Operation Center Client deployment - be able to deploy packages with command

Currently the polling and distributing of client deployment packages occurs every morning at 08:00 on the OC server, it is not officially possible to start this manually. Also if started manually with the undocumented refresh pkg command the proce...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - query state of update package deployment

We need to be able to query the state of client deployment package distribution to spoke server. So which spoke server has successfully received its deployment package and is ready to update its client nodes, which spoke server failed to receive i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center Security Exposure IBM-OC Administrator

IBM-OC-XXXXXX is an exposure and should refuse logins or updates like SERVER_CONSOLE. The message in the web access to OC should also occur with login to admin client, with any attempt to change the password, or any attempt to modify or use this u...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP Operation Center - Enhance View - Storage --> Tape Device

In the OperationsCenter gui in Storage --> Tape Devices the link to 'Libraries' on the top left is pointing to the same location as the upper link: Storage --> Tape Devices https://servername:11090/oc/gui#tapeIt would make more sense to poin...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: FUNCTION TO CONTROL/HANDLE CLIENT FILE BACKUP CONFIGURATION DIRECTLY FROM SERVER

- Develop function to integrate Operations Center with SP Server with the ability to configure and handle the client host backup remotely.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Need an option to "backup" or "export" custom SQL-reports in "Spectrum Protect Operations Centre"

Some customers have many custom sql reports in their OC, so we need an convenient option to export or backup those sql-reports either in one single file (like .xml) or export single reports to single files (and consequently are able to import them...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Option to disable security notifications

We need an option to disable "security notifications" entirely.
over 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
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 ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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