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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 4 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 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 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 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 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 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM client Web GUI in TSM vwersion 8.1.4

TSM client Web GUI availability in TSM server version 8.1.4.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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