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My votes: IBM Storage Insights

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Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Storage Insights

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Storage Insights. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches in Storage Insights

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Storage Insights as not monitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Storage Insights can monitor. Add an option to supp...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Provide More Granular DS8 Capacity Reporting for Storage Insights Hosts and Volumes

Please provide the ability to capture capacity information for hosts and volumes at a more granular level, eg hourly/sample vs just a single daily entry. The array overall we can see capacity data at least to an hourly level, so this would allow u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add Service-Now integration to Storage Insights

For certain alerts, I don't want it to sent an email. I want it to open a ticket. I want to be able to configure various Service Now fields to allow the severity and group to be assign, along with other fields An example: caller: Storage Insights ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3

Ability to view capacity info as z/OS reports it

Insights is great for viewing info (real time and historical) at the device / storage system level similar to the gui for the DS8K. However that is not the most useful info for day to day operations of these devices defined to z/OS. Insights does ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Assignments panel needs to enhanced to display the ip address or WWN or switch name or at least the system UUID

We also are unable to use Assignments to spread the workload because all the switches are listed with their Chassis Name, and we have a lot of switches of the same kind so its impossible to differentiate between which device is located where. Woul...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

ability to use SSH for Brocade switches

The current way to add brocade switch/fabrics is only by HTTP or HTTPS. Without the ability to use SSH we can not use Insights features since HTTP and HTTPS has been disabled in our environment.
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

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