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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 9, 2025

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Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

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If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers 

(At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your servers you get warnings/errors because of this.

For example if you have two or more GKLM servers and have one primary and X backup you can't disable warning from one of them via the GPFS GUI when you do maintenance on one of the GKLM servers. So you end up with warnings which you can't easily acknowledge in the GUI.

It would be good to be able to monitor the GKLM servers via for instance under "All Nodes" or have a new tab there for external servers that still to function to have a working Storage Scale cluster.

Similar to when you right click on a node and select "Maintenance Mode" under the "All Nodes" tab in the GPFS GUI

And be able to change the settings via mm* commands and via REST-API as well.

Idea priority Low

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