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IBM Storage Insights

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Add ability to alert on age of DS8000 FlashCopy

Storage Insights does not currently have any built in alerts related to FlashCopy, or ability to create custom alerts. It would be helpful for us to create alerts based on the presence of a FlashCopy set, the age of the set, etc.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Consider fiber channel port speed as attribute for alerting creation

Consider fiber channel actual and capable port speed as port attribute for alerting creation
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Alerting creation with OR condition

Currently multi conditional condition rule are using AND condition, in some situation ( for example where the threshold is the same) it would be efficient to create one rule with a OR condition
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI Reports filters not flexible

The reporting utility in SI is very good, but additional flexibility in the filter section is desirable.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Single Sign On with OKTA

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

Snooze alert in Storage Insights

As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Export performance or support data capability for a group of devices

A SI user should be able to collect support data for a group of devices that are configured under a group.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Display drive FRU in drive properties

Display Drive FRU in Drive properties | hardware tab. This information should be displayed next to "name", "status" , "acknowledged"... under internal resource|properties
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Direct links to custom dashboards

Allow the ability to directly link to a custom dashboard. In large environments with many different teams, being able to send a direct link to a custom dashboard for that team would be helpful. Also being able to bookmark a dashboard or to use it ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration