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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Proactive support service within Operations Center

Operations Center Proactive Support with Health monitor and Advisor.
almost 5 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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Setting the Overview by Server on the Operations Center

Having on the Overview page of the Operations Center the possibility to filter the information by server.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Make the Operations Center Server Activity display user-configurable

Customer would like to see the Operations Center Server Details...Summary tab "Activity over 24 Hours" be more configurable. Specifically, it would be helpful the Activity period could be lengthened and the mouse hover show the actual date and time.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

ANR0991I alert/notification implementation

As you can see in the support case ID there is no possibility to receive alerts or notifications for the ANR0991I when Spectrum protect server s are shutdown. In the operational center the possibility seems to be there but it's triggering nothing....
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Provide ISP Client Management Services also for Linux on Power LE

We use ISP CMS to rollout ISP Client configuration on our ISS Cluster systems. Now, besides x86 based ISS Clusters, we got our first IBM POWER LE based cluster and recognised that IBM does not ship ISP CMS for POWER LE. But we need CMS also on the...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Chaining Opscenters for REST API via one central Opscenter

Having several Opscenters managing several Spectrum Protect Instances, and having currently the restriction only to have 1 Hub server, this makes Management by branches and departments complicated. Therefore we appreciate to group Servers of speci...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

run OC reports and put result locally, then send the files in any way other than mail

How work with operation center to send mail since most mailservers demand authorization as of today and dont really like "anonymous" sending of mail. All reports are then blocked. It could be also of interset to see if one can run OC reports and p...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration