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Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
over 1 year ago in ESS 2 Future consideration

Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
7 months ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
almost 4 years ago in ESS 1 Future 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

Add system node name to the description/title of any CSP ticket generated from a call home.

The overall request is to add the system node name of the originating device into the case description whenever a call home occurs that results in a case being opened. From the sample case the customer provided, the case description is “9100 DSK00...
over 1 year ago in ESS 1 Future consideration

You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
almost 2 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than

Tram asked me to open RFE for Ford Hi Ron, Doug has asked if you can open a RPQ for IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than -2Ford has opened a Mellanox ticket on...
almost 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

fuser is missing in ESS deployment on ESS3200

opened corresponding issue No: 277001 customer needs fuser reason .. mmumounting file system may give you a hard time figuring out, who is using a mounted SG
about 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future 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

Documentation for HMC password change

For security concern, it is needed to change the default password of all the HMC of a ESS storage appliance.I didn't find any documentation to follow for this task. I was able to modify the HMC passwords through the HTTP interfaces. With the IBM s...
about 1 year ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

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