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Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Update device password through the REST API

Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Allow the ability to run a report that will provide the differences between two policies

I need to track all of the customizations between the default policies and the custom ones. Right now, I need to document that by hand. It would be far better to be able to run a report and have it provide the information. I also could see the use...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add aborted command/transfer metrics to SI

Spec V systems don't incorporate response time metrics into the performance stats for IOs that were aborted. The hosts would have actually been impacted by these IOs because IOs are typically aborted once they have hit some kind of timeout value. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to Storage Insights so that you can see the performance of a volume compared to throttles that are set.

Understanding how a volume is performing compared to throttles set on it is very important. Currently, throttles are not represented in Storage Insights. I want to be able to see how much of a QoS a volume is using. I also want to be able to set a...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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