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Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Single Sign On with OKTA

intergrate with OKTA or other single sign on technology
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Fields for frame/tray/disk expandability

Currently in a DS8k storage GUI we can see the little graphic of the frames connected and all the components inside each frame. we need the ability to see this graphical information in columns so we can determine if a frame has any expand-ability ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced

When using quotas on Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced. Native Scale commands can report on how much grace is left. SI (and presumably SC) doesn't report this.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation

Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation Port to local node response time alerts is a good way to check for issue or potential issueThreshold should be different depending of the topologyTopology can be standard, stretch a...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Alert for Consistency Group status change

Product: Storage insight PROActor: users want to be alerted for GlobalMirror stoppedDescription: we want to have an alert for monitoring Global mirror status change. In details we want to be alerted when we a consistency group goes to stoppedstauts
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to retrieve Timezone from DS8 HMC configuration and not from DS8 internal OS

We have found during a problem ticket TS001724631 we had raised to SI support that SI is pulling the timezone for a DS888X system from the internal OS running on the array, and not from what is configured in the HMCs as it should be. Please update...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Display grace period of 30 minutes between 2 log collections in task failure message

When attempting to collect logs from a storage subsystem, a user can received the following message when the task fails: " Uploading system logs for system XXX to ticket TS0123456789. The log package for the device with serial number YYY for ticke...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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