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IBM Storage Insights

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Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
14 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Track data collector upgrade attempts (successful and failed)

Storage Insights records the time of the last data collector upgrade and upgrade version on the data collectors panel, but it does not record task activity or audit log entries for attempts to upgrade the data collectors. This activity should be r...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Include affected resources in alert Payload to ServiceNow

Upon initial configuration of the ServiceNow integration, it appears that affected resources are not included in the alert payload that is sent to ServiceNow. Current implementation only appears to have: { "severity", "subcategory", "name", "occur...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted