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My ideas: IBM Storage Insights

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SI should flag/alert when firmware or microcode level is End Of Support

I would like to see (Maybe in Insights Advisor) if the Storage Firmware or Software is End Of Support. On IBM SVC family for example.. SVC hardware node may not be end of support, but it’s running a firmware code stream that IS end of support. Thi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SIP & SC: allow wildcards in the exclude list for storage reclamation

Storage Insights for Spectrum Control environment: "Reclaim storage" is useful, but customers need more handle on the exclude list. Now they can exclude volumes from the reclaim storage list, but customer wants to exclude certain partial volume na...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Consider fiber channel port speed as attribute for alerting creation

Consider fiber channel actual and capable port speed as port attribute for alerting creation
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Visualize internode cluster traffic to Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

There isn't a way in SC or SI to monitor this performance.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI Pro Software Update Recommendations to List Current/Minimum/Recommended levels in More Information field

In the Storage Insights Notifications there are new notifications for Software Update Recommendations. Under the More Information field no information is shown, but if the alert is opened up then it shows the Current/Minimum/Recommended Level in a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add ability to alert on age of DS8000 FlashCopy

Storage Insights does not currently have any built in alerts related to FlashCopy, or ability to create custom alerts. It would be helpful for us to create alerts based on the presence of a FlashCopy set, the age of the set, etc.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI Reports filters not flexible

The reporting utility in SI is very good, but additional flexibility in the filter section is desirable.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Snooze alert in Storage Insights

As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Export performance or support data capability for a group of devices

A SI user should be able to collect support data for a group of devices that are configured under a group.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration