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Spectrum Discover

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Add a column to the file report with the backup time

We are missing a column in Spectrum Discover file report for Spectrum Protect, which shows the latest backup date and time for each file.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Not under consideration

Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

Increase tagname character limit from 32 to 64 characters or more

We are using Spectrum Discover in a research and academia environment. Whenlooking towards how we will curate and manage tags as the number of includedprojects grows, we see that the tagname limit of 32 characters is a problem.When extracting exif...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Future consideration

Add new option for the tag value in content search policy: "1st Capturing Group"

In content search policies, you can use a regular expression to match content, selecting True/False or "Value matching expression" to be used as the tag's value. For example: Regular Expression: \b[\w_-]+\d{5}[\w_-]+\bContent: /opt/applications/da...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 3 Not under consideration

HDFS support for scanning

Allow Spectrum Discover to scan hdfs data lake environments to identify data candidates for our use cases (AI, governance, data heat).
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Include VMware Tools in Spectrum Discover appliance

To be able to make consistent backups of Spectrum Discover appliance, please include open-vm-tools in the OVA version of Spectrum Discover, and please include upgrades of open-vm-tools as a part of the Spectrum Discover upgrade.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Not under consideration

Limiting scan permissions for connection

Currently when scanning a connection, Spectrum Discover will index everything. Having the ability to add a connection, but exclude certain paths in that connection based on a set of criteria would be very beneficial. A similar option to how we add...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

Allow custom configuration of Spectrum Scale scanner

Allow the specification of Spectrum Scale "mmapplypolicy" command details to tailor the scanning granularity for Spectrum Discover. E.g. do not scan snapshots by e.g. not scanning the .mmsnapshot directory.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Make policy creation use case easier

When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

Extend DEEP INSPECT model (SDK and Appliance) to allow user to send metadata to the application.

Today, one can create a Discover deep-inspect agent/application that executes operations on a Scale file system. As an example, there is an application available on github to collect the Scale user-defined attribute and assign it to a Discover tag...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration