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    Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

    Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

    This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

    SNMP monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

    Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Ship ESS Bundles with full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repo

    ESS Bundles currently ship with a crippled set of RPMs from the RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. We want that the ESS Bundles are ship with the full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. Please revert back to what you've initially done with GSS and shi...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

    CallHome feature add to use SMTP in addition to HTTPS

    System: ESS EMS node models: 5148-21L 5105-22E Actor: Client needing additional CallHome feature ESS EMS node is a mandatory component of ESS building blocks. CallHome is currently supporting HTTPs protocol through internet via proxy server. Clien...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

    event filtering function on snmp trap in ESS

    In ESS/Spectrum Scale GUI, there isn't any option to select the Severity of SNMP event message.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

    Enabling the ESS storage with Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 for storage and processing based on CXL Fabric

    CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

    Requesting that customer system name be included in Call Homes for ESS and IBM Storage products.

    It has been noted that ESS Call Home cases (inclusive of other IBM Storage as well) do not have the name of the system in the cases description. We are requesting that this change so that system names are included in the call home for the CSP case...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than

    Tram asked me to open RFE for Ford Hi Ron, Doug has asked if you can open a RPQ for IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than -2Ford has opened a Mellanox ticket on...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    fuser is missing in ESS deployment on ESS3200

    opened corresponding issue No: 277001 customer needs fuser reason .. mmumounting file system may give you a hard time figuring out, who is using a mounted SG
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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