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event filtering function on snmp trap in ESS

In ESS/Spectrum Scale GUI, there isn't any option to select the Severity of SNMP event message.
over 4 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

Omnipath network support by Elastic Storage Server 3500/6000 (now called IBM Storage Scale System 3500)

IDRIS is an Education and Research customer hosting on of the largest compute center in France for several research entities (CNRS, GENCI, ... : http://www.idris.fr/). They currently use a very large Spectrum Scale appliance configuration with Len...
over 1 year ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
over 1 year ago in ESS 0 Planned for future release

ESS Support VDC 270 Power input

For higher energy conversion efficiency, the datacentor is constructed with dual DC power inputs. Doing so is more environmentally friendly and reduces carbon emissions. Our datacentor construction is all dual-channel high-voltage DC, and will con...
about 2 years ago in ESS 1 Future consideration

Ship ESS Bundles with full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repo

ESS Bundles currently ship with a crippled set of RPMs from the RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. We want that the ESS Bundles are ship with the full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. Please revert back to what you've initially done with GSS and shi...
about 3 years ago in ESS 2 Future consideration

CallHome feature add to use SMTP in addition to HTTPS

System: ESS EMS node models: 5148-21L 5105-22E Actor: Client needing additional CallHome feature ESS EMS node is a mandatory component of ESS building blocks. CallHome is currently supporting HTTPs protocol through internet via proxy server. Clien...
about 3 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
over 1 year ago in ESS 2 Future consideration

IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than

Tram asked me to open RFE for Ford Hi Ron, Doug has asked if you can open a RPQ for IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than -2Ford has opened a Mellanox ticket on...
almost 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

fuser is missing in ESS deployment on ESS3200

opened corresponding issue No: 277001 customer needs fuser reason .. mmumounting file system may give you a hard time figuring out, who is using a mounted SG
almost 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

ESS (GL6S) Temperature sensor failures require outage

The temperature sensor on the 4U106 Storage Enclosure is part of the chassis and can't be replaced online; it is necessary to take the entire enclosure offline in order to replace a failed one, resulting in an outage.
about 3 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

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