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IBM TS4500 Tape Library

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Shortening Log Collection time and reduce Log size to speed up service and support for more efficiency

TS4500 Log Collection is running more then 40 minutes and the Log size is greater than 750 MB. To speed up service and support time, we have to reduca tho log colletion duration and also the size of the log files. The idea ist to speed up and shor...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Firmware Check

System: TS4500Actor: Customer Commerzbank is asking for enhancements regarding library firmware check.Case was opened on behalf of client Commerzbank as a follow up for a critical situation.
about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Prometheus Exporter for Tape Library metrics

Currently the CLI and the REST API allows to monitor the TS4500 library by self written scripts. But it would be very useful to have a simple script which already provides all available metrics of the library to Prometheus. In our Environment we u...
3 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Add export logs to IBM (call home) via REST API Endpoint.

With this customer could automated the Datacollection and the export to IBM Ecurep.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS4500 improve Remote Authentication (LDAP, RACF) support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor authentication is a major component of security policies in many companies. TS4500 supports remote authentication with MFA when used with Duo (authentication proxy). However, this client has already invested in an MFA infrastructure t...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Include frame and drive S/Ns in system summary csv download

There is no single place to get the full list of S/Ns of frames AND drives for an installed library. The system summary csv file contains a lot of useful information including frames and drives, but not their S/Ns. This would be very helpful in ME...
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool

I would like to request a security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool to support authentication credentials to be read from a file on disk of the workstation. Today, typical TS4500 CLI usage is something like this:# java -jar /opt/TS4500/TS4500CLI...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Future consideration

Add LTO lcd display to drives view

Add a column to drives view that shows the LCD status digit for LTO drives.
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

RestAPI to be able to set priority verification for a tape volume for Media Verification.

Requestion the ability to set priority verification on a tape volume via the Rest API.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration