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REST-API request for managing certificates

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
1 day ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
15 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration
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mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
almost 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
14 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Protect Syslog Server panel with Dual Control

What happen when a hacker will change IP for RSYSLOG server. Logs are no longer transfered to syslog server and nobody is able to no longer see what happens at the Library. Please protect Syslog Server Panel with Dual Control
14 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
14 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
14 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

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