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IBM Storage Insights

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Capacity/trending charting and/or min|max|avg for a given time series for a given Application Group

Ability to create utilization charts/trends that span over a selected time series for applications or groups. We have the ability to see snapshot data today, but no easy way to see the data over time. I would like to be able to see a similar graph...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

E-mail notification when ticket is successfully created, and log successfully uploaded

SI allow to create, update ticket and upload logsUser should receive an e-mail notification when one of these actions is successful or fail
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI Pro and Hitachi VSP FICON Adapters

For Hitachi VSP G1500, G1000, and 5500 storage, SI/SI Pro only reports on Fibre Channel adapters that are installed in the system. It does not properly reflect the FICON adapters / ports installed in the system. If you go to Properties -> Confi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Is a defect

Add Host Connections Column to Block Storage Systems

Add the number of Host Connections as an available column in the Storage Systems table view. We already have Pools, Volumes, Drives, Remote Connections, etc, but we're missing the number of Hosts.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add alert condition with " Normal status"

I would like to create an alert that trigger for example when the host connection is <=1, but this alert should not trigger when customer is performing a code upgrade or rebooting a node , this is the reason I need a condition that that say Nod...
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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 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

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

Support for additional third-party filers

SI has fairly limited support for third-party filers.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under 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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration