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lift the SUDO wrappers limitations

Allianz is requesting from IBM ESS product the following a) lift the SUDO wrappers limitations outlined in following statementsSudo wrappers are not supported on clusters where one or more of the nodes is running the Windows operating system.Sudo ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Improper Session Management - Simultaneous Sessions

This issue is related to same user opening multiple sessions either with different browsers and different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Needs more information

De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

ESS GL6s RG failover take more than 5 minutes

When customer does final ESS GL6s acceptance test, they power off one of ESS I/O node, find that RG failover take more than 5 minutes which is longer than expected.Customer want to know what's the major bottle neck and enhance the whole RG failove...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Is a defect

Add ess3200 to general gpfs H36 cluster

The clustomer already install gpfs on 4 nodes(h36 cluster). The customer want to use ILM to place hot data on high performance storage pool. Deside to add ESS3200 to this cluster.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

RestAPIv2

Would like to use restAPI v2 to associate snapshot rules ( like other snapshot options : list, create, delete ,copy ... on filesystem and on fileset level ) , but no rule association rest api calls ?
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

ESS GUI in mix env (emsp9 & emsp8)

In mix env where there is EMS P8 + ESS GL systems, and EMS P9 + ESS5K/ESS3K, we can not move to 1 EMS P9 as active GUI - since it report old HW as unknown state.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Is a defect

SNMP Mib walk for ESS

Provide snmp mib walk via polling without having to build snmpd.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

ESS/Scale Crit Sit AB9147 opened 3/4/21 - Temperature Sensor Failure message requires replacing entire enclosure.

Problem Description:Management GUI shows rsrch1 GL6S ESS 3 Enlosure 78R0299 needs service. Shows temperature sensors 5, 7, 11 and 15 failed. The issue is that for a minor problem with temperature sensors failing a major service event bringing the ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

Switch management

When we deliver switches with the ESS, it's a pain that these don't come with management configured. Getting the hw technician to connect to a serial port to do initial configuration, and then connect it to a network is very cumbersome.. especiall...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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