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Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 20, 2014

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This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit SCSI-I-876 SMTP Authentication feature - Storage devices.

Support SSL/TLS connections for SMTP for email notifications no longer allowing unsecure SMTP relay.

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Support SSL/TLS connections for SMTP to provide support for email notifications for cloud based solution requirements introduced after the recent Heartbleed vulnerability no longer allowing unsecure SMTP relay.

After the Heartbleed vulnerability, the SMTP servers seems to have updated with the new SSL version so the SVC and V7000 storage boxes were not able to send email.

We opened a PMR for this issue without knowing the root cause and the support found that there is a version mismatch between the SMTP SSL and SVC SSL standards.

Support asked us to turn off the TLS enforcement on the SMTP and test the email delivery but the SMTP used in Hanover is a cloud solution and we cannot modify the settings.

So I created a PowerShell script to check the SVC event log every 15 minutes and send an email to the recipients if critical or warning events are logged on the system.

This runs external to the SVC system as a workaround.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Mar 19, 2022

    Some Closed - Duplicates from developerWorks were reopened in Aha!

    See SCSI-I-876

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 26, 2017

    Please note that this restriction currently prevents a SVC or Storwize system from sending call-home emails. Addition of this feature would be most appreciated!

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

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