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Source of the 500 errors should be shown in the alerts we get in the Manager

The source of the 500 errors should be shown in the alerts we get. The current message “Device is reporting that HTTP requests are returning status code 500 due to an internal issue” is vague and not helpful at all in identifying the offending vau...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Certificate key authentication supported for SFTP log transfers

Customer would like to use an SSL Public Key option for the configured SFTP connection in the 'Settings--Support--Logs--Log Collection--Log Collection Configuration--Log Destination' Log Collection Configuration page. There is an SSL/TLS certifica...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Test function for callhome setting

We have callhome function, but there is no test button that customer can test communication between their system and callhome server.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Bring more parity from Manager to Storage Account Admin portal for managing Container Vault

The request is to enhance the Storage Account Administration Portal to bring it more in line and parity with feature/functionality offered for Standard Vaults. Things like being able to track throughput with a chart (like aggreate Accesser through...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Support custom certs on endpoints using Vault Proxy

The Vault Proxy feature does not work if the Accesser Device (or Access Pool) is using Customer signed certificates. The feature will only work when the IBM signed certificates are present. For customers that require using their own organization's...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Provide data migration feautres for inter-vault/bucket and retention-enabled buckets

Provide data migration feautres for inter-vault/bucket and retention-enabled buckets. DMS will support vault to vault migration, with certain caveats, and only within the same COS system. Customer would like a capability to migrate across COS syst...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Provide qualified third-party firmware upgrade software packages with ClevOS

ClevOS currently provides IBM branded hardware firmware upgrade packages as part of the ClevOS appliance image. It has been requested to also include similar upgrade packages for COS qualified third-party appliances, such as the HP devices and the...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Aggregate Client-Accesser Throughput graph

There needs to be an Aggregate Client-Accesser Throughput graph that overlays lines from every vault on the system, so we can easily spot the trend from all vaults to see which one is the busiest. This saves us from having to click through EVERY v...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Virgina Tech: Allow/deny lists for APIs. IBM COS in our installation lives on a campus network with thousands of untrusted users. Narrowing the scope of networks that can access the manager and data APIs would be helpful in keeping the threat posed by untrusted users accessing an API to a minimum.

Allowing creation of allow/deny lists for access to the manager API and data API, in addition to the included controls on IPs allowed to access vaults, and our own two factor solution for authenticating users would be helpful.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Virginia Tech: Leveraging the built in rsyslog daemon to forward logs is a preferable path for many users (including us!) to avoid having to deploy an external agent. Making sure all COS internal applications log through rsyslog, instead of their own loggers like log4j or other libraries, would be helpful.

It would also be helpful if the COS syslog forwarding options included rsyslog hooks to allow forwarding all logs via insertion of a rule such as "*.* @@customer.log.host"
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted