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Probes fail against Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b)

v.5.4.2: Unable to Probe Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b) - java.lang.NullPointerException/RestBrocadeSwitchProbe.run()] [ERROR] Error writing protobuf to ProbeOutput file
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Is a defect

dsm.opt file getting blanked out when disk is full

We have observed couple of times that on Windows BA client dsm.opt file is getting banked out. dsm.opt size becomes 0 bytes and file is empty. We are using node replication. When disk is full and node replication is being used then while running b...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Is a defect

Mouse click events on Flash based systems GUI needs some modifications.

Hi IBM Team, Minor tweaks required for user friendly access of the portal where mouse click events on GUI page needs some modification. Please find them in detail below. Details: Go to any of Flash IBM array for - https://0.0.0.0/gui#monitor-syste...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Is a defect

ESS GL6s RG failover take more than 5 minutes

When customer does final ESS GL6s acceptance test, they power off one of ESS I/O node, find that RG failover take more than 5 minutes which is longer than expected.Customer want to know what's the major bottle neck and enhance the whole RG failove...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Is a defect

mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Hung Process control

During the time of impact to the GUI we encountered an issue with generating support saves which slowed down and increased delays in recovery. If there was a method to kill the current running process used for the support save collection, it might...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

SPP BUG - Unable to remove a Schedule from a Report

After defining a schedule on a report, the schedule cannot be removed. If you 'untick' the schedule there is no option to click 'Save'. For custom reports, the workaround is the delete the report and start again, but for the default reports there ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Detecting bad network connection and perform preventive Action.

When there is a Bad Network connection there is a possibility of receiving malformed or out of sequence Commands. The Spectrum Virtualize products are reacting to this anomaly by rebooting themselves, sometimes both nodes rebooting simultaneously....
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

SPP: use OpenJDK for vSnap VADP Proxy

Currently SPP installs openJDK pkg during installation and upgrade phase. However Oracle Java is still beign used for VADP proxy of vSNAP server. Due to licensing we would appreciate if only one Java has been used.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect