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Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Improve data collector health status indicators, and alert about data collector health issues.

In Storage Insights, problems exist where the workload balancing algorithm moves all workload to one data collector, because the other data collectors get into a state where they are “alive” enough to respond to the heartbeat, but not alive enough...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Add more options for scheduling performance monitoring

We collect more detailed performance reports on a daily basis using local scripts. When these are running, storage insights performance collection will fail. This is specific to collecting performance data on Hitachi Vantara storage arrays.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Ticket overview in Storage Insights

We would like to have the possibility to view all tickets, open ongoing tickets and closed aswell in the same window. As for now we have no overview to see all tickets but we have to manually open the "Tickets" tab under each system.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

SI to Include IBM DS8XXX Frames in an Inventory View

We would like to see a way in Storage Insights Pro to see an inventory list of all DS8 frames.Ideally I would like to see an Inventory table which lists out all frames for all the DS8 devices, but at a minimum we should have an Inventory tab withi...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Change capacity limit for file storage systems

The new capacity planning report functionality tracks against a capacity limit of 100%. However, customers may have a threshold for implementing administrative controls on growth, data migration, or initiating new purchases. It would be helpful to...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Show Buffer-Credit configured per Switch-Port

Provide a column on the switch port page with the configured buffer credits. This would help to prove a virtualize configuration or to identify a possible congerstion source.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information