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Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).

Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger. Today user can define alert in SI and can get notification via e-mail Then user need to use other external tool to automatically trigger a next action to alleviate the issue. This RFE is to have t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Provide a direct download (one time or multi-use) link for Data Collector

Downloading the Data collector on a workstation and then uploading it to a Linux/AIX/Windows machine is clunky and in some cases slow. Providing a direct link to use native (CURL/WGET/etc.) mechanisms for download directly on the end system would ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Offer alerting creation based on variation of the metric

In the same way that this is offered today with "Storage System , capacity, total compression, changes ", any other attribute (from other cateogries and componenent) should allow to specifc a change % value as trigger of the alerting
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Customers running SI ( free ) should be notified when probe or performance collections fail

When a probe or performance collection fails for a customer running SI free we should send an email or some alert notification to the user. Today they only alerting is in SI Pro and if the customer is running SI free it's not an option.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Alert when Storwize devices are seeing slow internode traffic

If the internode traffic is too high for an extended period of time, send out a warning. If it above a certain threshold, send out an error. I'm not sure what the warning/error thresholds should be ( I'll leave that to IBM ). In this situation rel...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

SI/SC makes reconciliation between custom and default alert policies different

SI and SC do not allow for modifying default alert policies; customer modifications require creating new policies.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Report sorting/filter options so we can view scheduled jobs or by other custom group

With the ever growing list of reports that are being created it is getting a bit of a hassle to find the report I need. I think we need to be able to filter by active/scheduled and also by a "folder" for use as a client,manager,team, etc. It could...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

add "estimated time to full" on the reports

The on prem version of Storage Insights has the ability to have a column with "estimated time to full", which is important to our environment, this is not available on the cloud version of the software.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists