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    Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

    It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

    I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

    In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

    SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

    SPP connection to ILMT

    In our environment we collect all necessary licenses with ILMT for IBM spectrum protect. In SPP 10.1. according the documentation license requirements could be captured with ILMT (Chapter 19. Licensing).But with clarification on ILMT-side (TS00381...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Operation Center - Logs and alerts for attempted or executed Restricted commands, new admin creation and change of password

    System: Operation Center - all platformsActor: User needing new feature Description: List of potential destructive/restricted commands attempted and executed in last 24 hrs in alert section. Also, a mechanism to send email alerts each time restric...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    command approval- Non approver can promote himself as "approver"

    The existing admin who was not configured as Approver can issue the command "update admin admin1 cmdapprover=yes" and promote himself as approver and approve for the his / others pending tasks. Its violating the purpose of having such feature.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect - Copy Retention Sets to Azure Archive Layer

    Customer is looking to use the Copy Retention Sets to Cloud as introduced in 8.1.13. They have an existing storage agreement with Azure and so will be using this. Noted that the release includes support for Archive Storage in both AWS and IBM Clou...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Instant VMDK Restore with Overwrite Capabilities

    German customer would like the option of restoring VMDK over top of the exisiting original VMDK. The restore today only mounts the VMDK in parallel when recovered back to the original. Competitor VMware VDP for which SPP replaced was able to do a ...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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