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Spectrum Discover

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Missing time stamp

It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Add button "Test LDAP connection ..."

In the Spectrum Discover web interface in home screen -> Access management -> Authentication domains -> Add domain connection a button to test a LDAP connection would be useful. Idea: When all text boxes in "Add domain connection" are fil...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Improvement in Data connections direct link UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a direct link from a connections name to the corresponding scan history would be very useful. At the moment it is very cumbersome to find: 1. A c...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Improvement in Data Connection UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" the header line of the table is not fixed. When scrolling down in the table it's not obvious which column has which information. A fixed header l...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Implement a new status i.e Qtree mounted / scanned

As of now, in Spectrum Discover (Data Souce Management) page is not showing what Qtree has been mounted and which one is scanned also. Currently there's a green tick which does not correspond to any reliable information (either Qtree mounted or Qt...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift

We discussed a limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift with Joseph Dain in Hamburg. Due to the cgroup settings in OpenShift a pod can only have 1024 pids. Since every scan creates ~100 or more threads we reach this threshold soon causing the wh...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Include VMware Tools in Spectrum Discover appliance

To be able to make consistent backups of Spectrum Discover appliance, please include open-vm-tools in the OVA version of Spectrum Discover, and please include upgrades of open-vm-tools as a part of the Spectrum Discover upgrade.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Not under consideration

Windows explorer Feature

This demand aims at implementing a new feature providing a windows explorer like feature Please check the attached slides for more details
9 months ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Horizontal scaling of spcetrum environement in Openshift

In order to optimize the general performance of the Discover spectrum environment implemented in Openshift, it seems important to us to consider that benefiting from the horizontal scalability capabilities in Openshift would be a must For example,...
9 months ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration