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IBM Spectrum Control

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Ethernet Port Support

Need Ethernet support added to "Ports" so we get the same visibility as Fibre Channel Ports do. Hard to run IP Replication or ISCSI and have no visibility.P.S. I would of put a PMR # but your System is not set up to handle the "new" way of things....
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 4 Planned for future release

Tooling for updating device login credentials from outside Spectrum Control

I need a method for programmatic management of the login credentials of devices managed by Spectrum Control. Security best practice requires that the passwords/keys are regularly changed.changing through the GUI for even a moderate number of devic...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control integration into VMware

Hi Team We are looking for a permanent solution to an issue that we are having at a customer below. Our customer is looking for deep integration between Spectrum Control Advanced Edition/VSC and VMware. Currently, Spectrum Control probes VMware on...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Support for EMC ISLON

My customer uses Control to manager all devices and they adquire an EMC Islon that has all user files. They requested our support to homologate monitoring for this storage under Control
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Role Change For Spectrum Control

Currently, there are only two roles in Spectrum Control: Administrator and Monitor. Administrator can do everything in Spectrum Control. Monitors can do nothing, not even create reports. We would like the monitor role to be expanded for that purpo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

Consider automatic column width in tables based on actual data

When a tabular data is first viewed within Spectrum Control, Sometimes the column is much too narrow to display the actual data and sometimes many columns are too narrow and time must be invested adjusting the column widths to make the data readab...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Refresh support for HPE 3PAR/StorServ

Update current support for HPE 3PAR (StorServ) to support devices with newer firmware/SMI-S agents
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration