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IBM Spectrum Control

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    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

    Make reports that are saved into the report folder available via the GUI

    Many people don't login to the Control host when accessing Control, it's more common accessed via a web browser. If your environment hasn't been setup for email it makes accessing reports very difficult. Especially when you don’t want regular emai...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

    This is info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all the types of license daemon services and need to be fetch license usages via RTM tool.

    Because currently I could not able to add this Lsdyna and Matlab license server information and could not able to fetch this license usage. In case if we add this option, then LSF administrator and uses will get more gain. Currently we could only ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Needs more information

    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...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    User credentials(Username/password) visible in plain-text

    As per Bank's IS policy/regulatory guidelines , sensitive information like username/password should to encrypted end to end. However in IBM products, SKLM(IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager) and IBM Spectrum Control., these sensitive info...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

    Change of IBM Spectrum Control Common User after installation

    We would like to have the functionality to change Spectrum Control Common User after the software is installed and running for several years.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Parameterization of the port (2443 default) used by the Spectrum Control for the configuration of Hitachi storages

    I have to integrate a hitachi VSP G700 and G900 storage in Spectrum Control, but I have a problem because the default port 2443 of the hitachi Command Suite when the client installed it changed to 443 and 2443 port is not available. The request is...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    SRA agent should support "status" for HBAs

    Right now the SRA (Storage Resource Agent) does not support a status for SAN HBAs.It should display a useful status for every HBA - preferably even every port on the HBA.Possible states: Online/Offline/Link-Up/Link-Down, etc.This should exist for ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Data Manager reports should recognize GPFS & VMFS as a cluster

    The report Data Manager > Reporting > TPC-wide Storage Space > File System Space > By cluster does not show GPFS clusters or VMware ESX clusters as a cluster. They are shown under By Computer. As a result, the file space in /VMFS (ESX ...
    over 14 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    Spectrum Control with DFSMS Storage Group Awareness

    Request for Thin Provisioning Monitoring Interface that can report based on DFSMS (Storage Group). Please refer to RFE 137862 for additional detail.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

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