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    Spectrum Scale / ESS soft lockup issue

    I need help on this requirements for the system using Power9 AC922 servers and ESS 3000 storages. The customer has faced soft lockup issues with their applications running on AC922 which Spectrum Scale client runs on as well. They are definitely t...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    Add a Utility node with FC cards

    Add a Utility node with fc cards, so we can deliver a full IBM Storage solution with IBM Storage Archive, without having to involve Power brand.A utility node with enogh memory and fc card would fulfil this gap in our options when building a Scale...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Planned for future release

    ESS call home for disk failures should include the RG\disk name in the IBM case title

    In ESS call home for disk failures, when a case is created the case title is very generic and reports an error number 'Error Code: DSK00001'. Problem The challenge is that when disks fail, it is difficult to relate a specific disk failure to an IB...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

    Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Include SW that looks to see if a health check has been done within 24-48 hours before allowing a Storage Scale SW upgrade

    Ensures that a Storage Scale/ESS SW upgrade will not fail due to potentially failed boot drives or other drives/components having failed since the last health check, if the health check had been performed many days or weeks previously to the SW up...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Include rpm package audispd-plugins into Storage Scale System bundle to improve audit logging capabilities.

    In an regulated environment it is required to configure several audit rules at OS level, to be compliant. To forward the resulting audit events to syslog, it is required to install the rpm package audisp-plugins, which is not part of the current I...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Support

    LLDP is a technology used in cloud and automation scenarios which assists with Layer2 link discovery. Its works by broadcasting additional metadata and information about each network link to the network switches allowing for automation to more eas...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

    Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

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    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Not under 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...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

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