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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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OC nodegroup handling

When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

OC License History

OC already has reports from FrontEnd and BackEnd licensing, however many customers would like to be able to track the historical consumption of their licenses, to allow a better forecast of how much they have been using.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Support multiple Operation Centers

We would like to use multiple OC´s to support remote monitoring in parallell with local OC. This is not possible today, but needed for our remote monitoring process. Maybe the local OC could feed some "cloud"-service (like CMC for HMC and power sy...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Ability to export support logs out of OperationsCenter GUI

In case of problems with the ISP environment it is needed to open a problem ticket and provide various log files from the ISP server. If the Operations Center is used it should be able to extract the logfiles out of the Operations Center. (e.g. ac...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Report visualizer inside Operations Center

The only way to visualize a report output is to send the report by email using the "Send" option. This is not practical when creating/modifying a report and you need to see the result quickly in order to make changes/corrections to the SQL. It wou...
almost 2 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

Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - Package refresh cycle not visible as process

The package refresh cycle is not visibile on the hub server as a process, so it can not be monitored or observed in any way. it is even not really possible to see if it is running or not. We need to have this as a normal process like all other ope...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration