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Fusion online backup for Z

Support for Fusion backup on Z.
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 3 Delivered

From CLI/RESTAPI be able to query setting on tape library

As a validation check we audit our estate daily looking for changes in configuration not following an agreed pattern. Can we please have a method via CLI or RESTAPI to query all the setting that can be set via the GUI Ideally I would like to get t...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Enable changing local account passwords via CLI or RESTAPI

We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Handle multiple mount points when not in use

This sounds like a bug, it reminds me of the old stale nfs handles that didn't go away after the connection had stopped usually because of an open file. I would think there would be a cleanup after a timeout of the data structures. When we try to ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Delivered

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Delivered

Enhancement request to Spectrum Scale event alerting mechanism to allow event correlation

Spectrum Scale has long provided mechanisms to alert about events. In the past, it was common to use callbacks to do that. Today, Scale provides webhooks that can be received by consumers. Also, mmhealth today provides a good source of info about ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Implement callhome for HW problems at SAS RAID Adapter of ESS Legacy Systems

We faced an HW issue with the internal SAS RAID adapter in an ESS IO node, which cased a massive performance degradation. This issue was reported by mmhealth to spectrum scale but does not trigger an callhome to IBM. To improve serviceability it w...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Delivered

Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered
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Early warning when an ISP server certificate cert256.arm expires and a smooth method for renewing the certificate.

The server certificate cert256.arm (public key), expires after 10 years without warning. After that, access to the ISP server is no longer possible from one second to the next. The server must be stopped hard. A warning in the Actlog, e.g. three m...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Storage Insights Trend Analysis

A simple trendline graph of the "Used Capacity" and how it is expected to grow over the next months/ years/. We are entering data into an Excel sheet right now, this is not a very complicated feature to have. Especially since the Recent Fill Rate ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Delivered

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