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IBM TS4500 Tape Library

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    REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

    Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Protect Syslog Server panel with Dual Control

    What happen when a hacker will change IP for RSYSLOG server. Logs are no longer transfered to syslog server and nobody is able to no longer see what happens at the Library. Please protect Syslog Server Panel with Dual Control
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

    In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

    Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    DNS names instead of IP addresses in TS4500

    In TS4500 I can not use DNS names for define Syslog or encription server, Only IP addresses are allowed. It's problematic when using certificates signed by our authority and use IP address in SAN is not common.
    over 1 year 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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Unify the naming of settings for LDAP configuration

    Different IBM Storage product (TS7700/TS4500/TSSC/…) are using LDAP but they are naming the different settings within the configuration different. My suggestion is to have this standardize across the various products.
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    We would like to have a way to export/import LDAP settings cross different IBM Storage systms.

    Customer approached me asking why TS4500/TSSC/TS7700/DS8000 all are using separate ways to configure LDAP. They are requesting a way to configure one system and then copy these settings to the others. IBM in Tucson develop all, so this should be p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

    We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under 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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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