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SI to collect support data from SAN switches

In a similar way that SpecV support data can be collected using SI SAN switch support data should be possible for Brocade (supportsave) and CISCO (show logging onboard, show tech-support details , show tech-support fcip) SAN switches
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Trend Analysis where we can identify sites that continue to have lag time issues

This request came from CSP case = TS008545343 via client We have a business need to provide trend analysis on approximately 20 sites like SOCMGM that use replication to their respective DR sites. Below is a sample of what we run daily but this is ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add Host Connections Column to Block Storage Systems

Add the number of Host Connections as an available column in the Storage Systems table view. We already have Pools, Volumes, Drives, Remote Connections, etc, but we're missing the number of Hosts.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Port time blocked percentage metric

Request to get the metric "Port time blocked percentage" added into Storage Insights available metrics to monitor. This metric is a calculated value available in regular iostats and L3/dev indicate this value is calculated as :Time Blocked Percent...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux

Support for performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux on SI.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger. Today user can define alert in SI and can get notification via e-mail Then user need to use other external tool to automatically trigger a next action to alleviate the issue. This RFE is to have t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Customers running SI ( free ) should be notified when probe or performance collections fail

When a probe or performance collection fails for a customer running SI free we should send an email or some alert notification to the user. Today they only alerting is in SI Pro and if the customer is running SI free it's not an option.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to Storage Insights so that you can see the performance of a volume compared to throttles that are set.

Understanding how a volume is performing compared to throttles set on it is very important. Currently, throttles are not represented in Storage Insights. I want to be able to see how much of a QoS a volume is using. I also want to be able to set a...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration