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IBM Spectrum Control

CLI access from Spectrum

Currently, we can launch gui for the storage devices from spectrum control. It would also be useful to launch cli from here as well.
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Update Cognos Analytics to a more current version

At this moment with Spectrum Control 5.4.12.x the Cognos Analytics version offered via Passport Advantage is still version 11.2.1.Latest fixes for this Cognos version are from January 2022. Our security department is demanding that we fix a number...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

authentication and authorization mechanism for application groups and general groups

Customer is India's Largest MSP and deployed A9000R with Spectrum Control. Customer requires functionalities which is part of Public Cloud Feature.(i) Managing Domains of A9000 (HSM) through Spectrum Control as single Console would help them to ma...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration

zHyperlink performance monitoring

Spectrum Control is a tool that customer use to manage their capacity, performance and other metrics of Storage environments. Although the Tool/Software have a lot of functions, I realized the zHyperlink performance monitoring aren't one of their ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration

Role Change For Spectrum Control

Currently, there are only two roles in Spectrum Control: Administrator and Monitor. Administrator can do everything in Spectrum Control. Monitors can do nothing, not even create reports. We would like the monitor role to be expanded for that purpo...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration

Differential alerts

Customer would like to receive not only static alerts (eg. data rate > 1 MB/sec) but also differential alerts (eg. data rate increased by more than 20% over the last week). They would like in particular to receive such alerts at consolidated le...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Add Spectrum Scale with SSH key in Spectrum Control

Currently Spectrum Scale can be added only with password authorization. Requet is to implement SSH key authorization. Once user password is changed in Spectrum Scale , we lose collecting data until password is changed in Spectrum Control according...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Planned for future release

Currently there is no way to visualize "Virtual Backup capacity" , in Safaguarded copy in DS8950F .

As SGC is a the next evolution of secured backup, should be valuable if spectrum Control can give
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

SELinux enable on RHEL for Spectrum Control server

SELinux enable on RHEL server for Spectrum Control application. Currently Spectrum Control is working on SELinux disabled RHEL servers.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

LDAP - implement nested groups support

Enterprise environments that implement LDAP need to support LDAP nested groups.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration