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IBM Storage Insights

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Upgrade individual Data Collectors via GUI

Currently the only Data Collector upgrade option in the Storage Insights GUI is the button to upgrade all collectors. We would prefer to roll out the Data Collector upgrade in stages without having to do the upgrade manually. A good option for us ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Storage Insights Should List Timestamps Consistently

I noticed that when we are looking on the Performance tab the time selection dropdowns are in 24 hour time but on the axis of the chart which is drawn, they are in 12-hour time. Sometimes the chart axis lists "AM/PM" but other times it does not.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

SI Pro to show DS8 Code Bundle version in addition to SEA/LMC Version

Currently in SI the Firmware attribute for DS8k systems shows the SEA/LMC version, eg 7.8.53.45 but elsewhere under recommendations for code levels SI shows the code bundle version, eg 88.53.15.0. It would be helpful if Firmware in SI would show t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

DS8K extent pool utilization should be collected with performance data instead of only during probe

We leverage ESE along with FlashCopy in our environment and it would be useful for us to monitor the extent usage rate to fine tune our capacity planning. Currently the extent pool physical allocation is only measured when the probe runs against t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

SI Should Show Useful Information in Data Collection Problem Emails

When we get emails about Data Collection problems there is really no useful/actionable information in the email at all. For example: Dear Storage Insights user, IBM Storage Insights has detected a disruption of data collection for a storage system...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Let me select what log I want to upload in Storage Insights

Request for new feature Or if this is already implemented , requesting to open up for general use ( demand is increasing for this … ) Customer created SNAP from SI and in parallel PMR got closed by SSR - so , SNAP never got uploaded to PMR and was...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Storage Insights Trend Analysis

A simple trendline graph of the "Used Capacity" and how it is expected to grow over the next months/ years/. We are entering data into an Excel sheet right now, this is not a very complicated feature to have. Especially since the Recent Fill Rate ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Delivered

SI doesn't automatically grant permission to support for log collection

SI doesn't have a method of granting support permission to gather logs when a new storage system is added.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Please provide functionality so that Storage Insights can show hostconnect logins by DS8 IO Port

From the host logins page in the DS8 GUI, and from the lshostconnect -login table we can easily see which hostconnects are logged into which DS8 IO port. In Storage Insights Pro, the GUI seems to specifically omit the IO Port columns in what is pr...
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Some Special Characters are not able to be used in the Application Filter

Within the GROUPS > Application Filter settings I am unable to use ## or $$ or even AB???? on VOLSER filter.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Delivered