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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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SP SERVER/OP CENTER: ENHANCE OPERATONS CENTER TO MANIPULATE ALL THE SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS AS IN SERVER COMMAND LINE

Enhance Operations Center with the same functions to control Client Scheduling with the same options present with Server Command Line in a WEB/GUI Interface and view.
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.
about 4 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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Operation Center should have the option to use SMTP with authetication method

The Operation Center deployed in a production environment should have the option to user other SMTP methods to send reports. My client do not allow smtp wthout authentication in production environment.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 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

SSL CA certificates expiration date monitoring

We would like to have possibility of monitoring expiration date of SSL signed certificates by Customer CA through IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and have ability to perform certificate renewal if possible. This would be a huge improvement ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow editable threshold settings and client and/or type of client exceptions for security notifications

Please make the thresholds for Operations Center Security notifications an editable setting. We have hundreds of security notifications daily that are not being reviewed since we can't manage them. Also many are API clients, which would typically ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 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.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration