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IBM Storage Insights

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Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

Storage Insights should close out Advisor Recommendations once the issue is resolved

For example in Storage Insights we have Advisor notifications for "Software Update Recommendation" and if we open the notification it still lists the "Current Level" as the old level before we upgraded the systems some weeks ago. I would like to s...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add ability to specify SSH port and REST API port (if REST API used for UserID/Password connection

We have storage devices running that will not be upgraded to 8.6 for some time (or never), but are accessible only through NAT firewall gateways. The SSH daemon is accessible via ports that are not 22. Cisco and Brocades allow the REST API port nu...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SFP warning and info alerts should be elevated to higher status in system monitoring

We have had 2 SEV1 incidents at our org due to SFP's malfunctioning but not failing. When SFP's begin showing lower voltage or abnormal TX or RX specs, these need to be elevated to be a system health issue for IBM Brocade Storage switches. This is...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

Provide More Granular DS8 Capacity Reporting for Storage Insights Hosts and Volumes

Please provide the ability to capture capacity information for hosts and volumes at a more granular level, eg hourly/sample vs just a single daily entry. The array overall we can see capacity data at least to an hourly level, so this would allow u...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Add Service-Now integration to Storage Insights

For certain alerts, I don't want it to sent an email. I want it to open a ticket. I want to be able to configure various Service Now fields to allow the severity and group to be assign, along with other fields An example: caller: Storage Insights ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 3

Allow global Filter/search across entire SI Instance

When I have multiple devices in my environment, I need a quick way to drill down to what device is of immediate concern. If I get CRC errors from a WWPN, I need to search my SI instance for which array is presenting that WWPN. If I need to grow a ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SI to Show Expert Care Capacity Licensing in Portal in Addition to Existing Previous Subscription Models

With the change to SI capacity for DS8's being included as part of Expert Care entitlements instead of as a separate subscription, the Storage Insights portal currently will only still show just the licensed capacity for the older style subscripti...
10 months 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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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