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IBM Storage Insights

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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

Add a link to "view details" of a system directly from the dashboard (without having to choose a component).

The dashboards in Storage Insights are nice; however, it feels cumbersome to be looking at a storage system in the dashboard and then have to navigate to Resources --> Block Storage Systems to then select the same system to view the details. I ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1

Add SI Support for 32Gb SAN Switches (IBM c-type)

Spectrum Control and Storage Insights for Spectrum Control do not support 32Gb IBM c-type switches. Clients require support for IBM/Cisco MDS switches. Specifically IBM SAN48c-6 (Cisco MDS9148T) and IBM SAN96C-6 (Cisco MDS9396T).
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...
about 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 ability to specify SSH port and REST API port (if REST API used for UserID/Password connection

We have storage devices running that will not be upgraded to 8.6 for some time (or never), but are accessible only through NAT firewall gateways. The SSH daemon is accessible via ports that are not 22. Cisco and Brocades allow the REST API port nu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Reporting capacity in a clustered environment is challenge.

Today we have an option to select several hosts and click merge host but this is a timing consuming, manual process in a large shop. We need a better option to recognize hosts that are in a clustered relationship. Looking at hosts that can see the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SI/SC don't show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices

Today, neither SI nor SC show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices, only the physical WWPN. Since the direction is to use NPIV only for host attachment, this prevents important information related to host connectivity being visible.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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