IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    QRadar SIEM Integration via REST API

    We are looking for assistance regarding configuring a log source for Storage Insights using the Rest API DSM to pull event logs from the platform to SIEM. When we searched on https://github.com/IBM/IBM-QRadar-Universal-Cloud-REST-API we did not se...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    The 'System Down' field is not specified when Storage Insights is used to open a support ticket

    When using Storage Insights to create a ticket for a monitored storage system, there is nowhere to specify a value for 'System Down' field. Depending on the device type, the 'System Down' field may be a required field in the IBM Support Portal, in...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    Add "IBM Ransomware Threat Detection (RTD) Patches" in the Resources pages of Storage Insights

    I don't just want to be able to see the code level on the storage, or whether it has ransomware threat detection. I want to be able to see the ransom threat detection code level on the clusters. If something needs to be updated, I want to know.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Insight Reports over all disks on all storage systems

    Problem to solve the question: Do I have a storage system with a disk affected by a certain (faulty) firmware? SI is a central inventory system, which already collects the data of all storage systems and has this information already. It's a common...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    Collect SAN portnames/labels of FC ports

    we have lots of customers using insights for SAN monitoring and it would be very helpful to collect portnames, all customers label the ports with the device connected and that label/portname tell us what is wrong when using alert policies, not jus...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add Applications to REST API

    I would like applications to be added to the REST API. That way I can get metrics for Applications I setup in Storage Insights Pro. In particular, I want to be able to create dashboards in Grafana for Applications.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

    I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    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...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

    Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Add functionality to Storage Insights so that you can see the performance of a volume compared to throttles that are set.

    Understanding how a volume is performing compared to throttles set on it is very important. Currently, throttles are not represented in Storage Insights. I want to be able to see how much of a QoS a volume is using. I also want to be able to set a...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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