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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 25, 2016

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Remove requirement to manually remove / re-add file authentication with mmcesdr

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When executing failover, restore or failback, the instructions in Section 16 of the document “IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2: Advanced Administration Guide” clearly states that one must remove and then re-create file authentication on the relevant cluster(s). IBM support have indicated that when protocol configuration is restored or failed over or failed back, it is similar to disabling a protocol (which removes all protocol information) and then enabling it again with new configuration information. To disable some of the protocols, the authentication method must be removed first (such as in the case of SMB with Active Directory authentication). Due to the complexity of the many types of authentication configurations allowed, IBM were not able to automatically perform this step in the 4.2 release. IBM stated they are looking to add this feature in a later release. This RFE is to escalate that process. Not the priority of this request may be lower if the removal and re-addition of authentication is not needed for NFS (the first protocol we intend to support in our NAS-as-a-server offering.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - V4 Product functionality

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 21, 2019

    Not in plan at this time.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 26, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #82928 in product Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs.

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