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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Enhancements to the Operations Center reporting

The company is building executive reports using Spectrum Protect Operations Center. They have over 6000 nodes doing backups in 19 Spectrum Protect servers and management would like to have a view of some statistics for the whole environment. Today...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via OC

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via Operations Center
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Progress bar for Node Replication

My customer needs a progress indicator, how much data have already been replicated. At the moment, there is no progress bar in the Operations Center ? There are the PMRs: TS001082298, TS000931890, TS000896249
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center - Logs and alerts for attempted or executed Restricted commands, new admin creation and change of password

System: Operation Center - all platformsActor: User needing new feature Description: List of potential destructive/restricted commands attempted and executed in last 24 hrs in alert section. Also, a mechanism to send email alerts each time restric...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Ability to send custom reports via OC as csv attachments.

Having the ability to generate custom reports as csv attachments provide extra flexibility for post-processing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Create, modify & remove administative schedules

Create, modify & remove administative schedules from the Operation Center.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

eMail encryption for Operations Center

As security requirements increase, it is our company policy to send encrypted emails with authentication. Can you please add SmartTLS with TLSv1.2 and authentication (port 587/tcp) as feature on Spectrum Protect Operations Center ?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration