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Storage Protect Family

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Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them. Option set:Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB o...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ops Center Reporting

similar to "To pull graphical representing reports from operation center (102024)". The canned "General Operations" report is very nice and useful. It would be nice if we could generate similar reports but there is no documentation on how to do that.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect LDAPUser Automated Password Updates

We require a LDAPUser interfaces with AD to obtain automated password update or maybe uses a token solution for regular automated password updates to the Spectrum Protect Servers.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Reduce Spectrum Protect Operatin Center query to bring down load on SP database

Regarding TS004537647. That is correct that there's no issue with finishing the daily work in a timely matter. There are some tunables to reduce the frequency of queries or stop them altogether. One of the background threads that is the busiest is...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Open LDAP support

LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Backup of Cloud Apps

More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE 6.4 support double-byte VM host name

In case of double-byte like Japanese VM host name, VMware off-host backups using vStorage for Data Protection API was stop backup as error. Could you fix this limitation of Single Byte character. Request environment:vSphere 4.1 TSM Server V6.3.3 W...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

If primaray server hang, baclients tried to connect on secondary replication server and never come back on primary.

If primary replication server hang, clients tried to connect on the secondary and never come back on secondary until CAD service isrestarted. I think this should not append and clients should automaticly reconnect on primary. Also, this is for bac...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration