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Storage Protect Family

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SPP - Auto-delete Old SPP System Logs from "/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives"

After generating a SPP System Log:sudo /opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/logcollectThe files are stores here:"/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives" There is currently no automated process that removes old System Logs. We recently had an issue with SPP where...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Summary Report

Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Unprotected VMs View

At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP : User to do FLR limitations

The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Cloudtype S3 IA

Support for off-premise cloud container pool cloudtype for AWS S3 IA storage. Currently the only option is for S3.AWS offers S3 IA as an additional storage option - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-opti...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enable Admin with Policy Privilege to "upd no sessionsec=trans" (currently fails with ANR2035E)

Admin user has been granted „Policy Privilege: WIN“ and can execute "unlock node" and "update node" for resetting password.BUT upd node fails with "ANR2035E UPDATE NODE: Administrator XYZ is not authorized to issue this command." when resetting fo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM Snapdiff backup and usage of Snapdiffchangelog in Stagingdirectory

First concerns is with the stagingdirectory itself. In documentation for BA client (7.1.3) is the following statement:"The stagingdirectory option defines the location where the client can keep anydata that it generates to perform its operations. ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC

System: Product Spectrum ProtectActor: User needing new feature We would like to manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC.As we have several instances and some with data retention licences.We would like to exclude them from th...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure start time for SPP "inventory" jobs

Customer requires functionality to configure start time for SPP inventory jobs.Default Application Server InventoryDefault Hypervisor Inventory
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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