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    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
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add log collection as a one time action for custom alerts

    There are many problems the support teams work on that require detail log collection at a time very close to an given performance event. It is difficult for customer operations teams to be able to accomplish this. Support currently supplies script...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add "real" system serial to pull down menu so it can be displayed along with the Node ID.

    Please add the "real" system serial (78-XXXXX) as an option in the pull down menu of the Resource Tab listing all of the installed system.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Add read MB/s metric for Vc and Vcc

    The original IDEA/RFE was this one "Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s" https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSI-I-51 Destage metrics were added (Fast-Write Writes Vc and Vcc), but stage/read MB/s metrics were not added for Vc an...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Storage Insights to display PPRCPATH Pairing Information from the DS8000

    We already have Copy Data statistics that pull in a wide range of information with regard to copy pairs, etc. Would it be possible to include PPRC Paths and their pairings at the LCU level, just like we can retrieve from DSCLI and the GUI? This wo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Run all binaries in the installation folder to prevent security software blocking

    Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to a different folder than the installation folder while running. Binaries we have seen ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under 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...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    Add ability to specify SSH port and REST API port (if REST API used for UserID/Password connection

    We have storage devices running that will not be upgraded to 8.6 for some time (or never), but are accessible only through NAT firewall gateways. The SSH daemon is accessible via ports that are not 22. Cisco and Brocades allow the REST API port nu...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Make synchronizing passwords easier on data collectors

    Change the way updating passwords for the data collectors works. Basically by adding a item under the block devices/connection tab to stop using the userid/password while you are resetting the data collector userid/password on your disk array. We ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

    We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

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