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SNMP Mib walk for ESS

Provide snmp mib walk via polling without having to build snmpd.
almost 3 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

Ship ESS Bundles with full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repo

ESS Bundles currently ship with a crippled set of RPMs from the RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. We want that the ESS Bundles are ship with the full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. Please revert back to what you've initially done with GSS and shi...
about 3 years ago in ESS 2 Future consideration

ESS (GL6S) Temperature sensor failures require outage

The temperature sensor on the 4U106 Storage Enclosure is part of the chassis and can't be replaced online; it is necessary to take the entire enclosure offline in order to replace a failed one, resulting in an outage.
about 3 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

ESS/Scale Crit Sit AB9147 opened 3/4/21 - Temperature Sensor Failure message requires replacing entire enclosure.

Problem Description:Management GUI shows rsrch1 GL6S ESS 3 Enlosure 78R0299 needs service. Shows temperature sensors 5, 7, 11 and 15 failed. The issue is that for a minor problem with temperature sensors failing a major service event bringing the ...
about 3 years ago in ESS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the monitoring and reporting the internal RAID card's degradation

5148-22L's internal RAID card's degradation caused severe performance impact. However, its degradation was not monitored by HW&SW. Therefore, the user could not found this HW problem.ESS should be enhanced as monitoring the card and reporting ...
about 3 years ago in ESS 1 Planned for future release

CallHome feature add to use SMTP in addition to HTTPS

System: ESS EMS node models: 5148-21L 5105-22E Actor: Client needing additional CallHome feature ESS EMS node is a mandatory component of ESS building blocks. CallHome is currently supporting HTTPs protocol through internet via proxy server. Clien...
about 3 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale / ESS soft lockup issue

I need help on this requirements for the system using Power9 AC922 servers and ESS 3000 storages. The customer has faced soft lockup issues with their applications running on AC922 which Spectrum Scale client runs on as well. They are definitely t...
about 3 years ago in ESS 2 Not under consideration

Auto tuning in AFM of afmNumFlushThreads

Our organisation are extremely heavy users of the AFM technology atop GPFS/SpectrumScale. We host thousands of AFM file-sets inside GPFS filesystems. The nature of the utilisation of each fileset is almost completely unique and individual. The pro...
over 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Switch management

When we deliver switches with the ESS, it's a pain that these don't come with management configured. Getting the hw technician to connect to a serial port to do initial configuration, and then connect it to a network is very cumbersome.. especiall...
over 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Enhanced admin security for ESS

Administrative access to ESS (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
over 3 years ago in ESS 1 Planned for future release