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Add aborted command/transfer metrics to SI

Spec V systems don't incorporate response time metrics into the performance stats for IOs that were aborted. The hosts would have actually been impacted by these IOs because IOs are typically aborted once they have hit some kind of timeout value. ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add read MB/s metric for Vc and Vcc

The original IDEA/RFE was this one "Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s" https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSI-I-51 Destage metrics were added (Fast-Write Writes Vc and Vcc), but stage/read MB/s metrics were not added for Vc an...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).

Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Offer alerting creation based on variation of the metric

In the same way that this is offered today with "Storage System , capacity, total compression, changes ", any other attribute (from other cateogries and componenent) should allow to specifc a change % value as trigger of the alerting
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Create alerting's for any of the CPU core

Alerting on one CPU core % utilization can be very useful to detect possible issues the system As SpecV device can have up to 32 CPU core this means that user need to select and configure one alert for each of the core. As the threshold will be th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to display PPRCPATH Pairing Information from the DS8000

We already have Copy Data statistics that pull in a wide range of information with regard to copy pairs, etc. Would it be possible to include PPRC Paths and their pairings at the LCU level, just like we can retrieve from DSCLI and the GUI? This wo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Please sign Insights with an IBM certificate - security apps block Insights binaries

Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to different folder than the installation folder. Also, automatic updates are not possib...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Add DA pair column to DS8000 drives listing

Please add a DA pair column to DS8000 drives (DDM) listings. Within a DS8000, spare drives are restricted to the device adapters they are connected to. And each device adapter pair has a number of available spares, usually 4. It is threrefore impo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration