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Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

VTS - Simplify RSYSLOG and TLS configuration

Currently to enable RSYSLOG with TLS is cumbersome and not the same as on other interfaces like TSSC. As documented RSyslog - IBM Documentation one has to add specific certificates with an alias to enable or disable TLS for the RSYSLOG connections...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because COS System send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
26 days ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

MGR Dashboard LDAP/AD Integration

Integrating AD/LDAP domains for user authentication to ceph mgr dashboard. This would benefit users in access restriction and user management with role-based access. For example, AD users would be able to authenticate using their own domain creden...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 1 Functionality already exists

Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Please, enhance ISP command to add option for does not check affinity IDs.

Why is it useful? We expect to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media] (LTO) to another NAS storage system.However, this operation is not possible and we receive error code "ANR1766E" because the...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ACL support for Spectrum Scale file systems

Spectrum Protect does fully support Spectrum Scale filesystems. If special attributes of files in this file systems aremodified like setting or changing ACLs, on the next backup run thecomplete file will be backed up again, though only metadata wh...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Node lock

Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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