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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

REST API as part of build test plan

The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

TSM operations center option to set or disable 'at risk' for RC4 and RC8

Tivoli Storage manager operations center shows clients as 'at risk' when backups are completed with RC8. We would like to see an option in which you can specify when a client is at risk:- backup must be completed with no messages- backup may be co...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3.5 Admin Center Windows Server 2012

Admin Center is not currently supported in Windows Server 2012 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467 Install shows the below error. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException ZeroGu2: Windows DL...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Not under consideration

Add backup storage reporting on TSM Policy Domain level to TSM Operation Center

Enhancing TSM Operation Center with of view of backup storage per Policy Domain. This would allow backup administrators to understand better their storage growth based on their organizational structure. Furthermore it supports the usage of TSM Pol...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to lock/unlock a node in TSM Operations Center GUI

To make Operations Center GUI more useful for this account, we need to have the ability to lock/unlock client nodes from the interface, so that the person using the GUI for monitoring does not have to resort to running the commands at the command ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client Auto-Deploy feature enable in TSM Enterprise Configuration Environment

We are trying to do auto-deploy of TSM clients from v5.5 - 6.2 onwards to v7.1.1.1 for windows and unix through Tivoli Integrated portal but we are getting ANR3200E error. The TSM server run on Linux OS at 6.3.4.00 version. This is a limitation of...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 7 Not under consideration