IBM System Storage Ideas Portal
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.
ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
This is planned for release in 2021. Roadmap subject to change.
We just released Spectrum Control 5.3.6 and would like to share the progress with you: now you can group IP ports and create a report of IP ports. See https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5R93_5.3.6/com.ibm.spectrum.sc.doc and https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5R93_5.3.6/com.ibm.spectrum.sc.doc/prd_whats_new.html#prd_whats_new__ip_ports_general_groups/prd_whats_new.html#prd_whats_new__ip_port_inventory_report to learn more about these new functions. Stay tuned for more future updates
In the 5.3.5 release of Spectrum Control you can see the first steps towards better monitoring of iSCSI connected volumes. Note: the performance/workload of volumes is already visible as the connection topology doesn't make a difference for the volume performance metrics.
Regarding your note:
Could you please describe in a bid more detail what you are missing? Monitoring is a vague term and means different things to different people, so in order to make sure we understand this idea, we would like to ask you to provide us a use case and desciption of what you would like to see in Spectrum Control and which gap this idea should really address in terms of the monitoring capabilities provided out of the box by SVS/Storwize.
The client wants the ability to monitor an iSCSI connection as SVC currently can monitor the FC connection.
Could you please describe in a bid more detail what you are missing? Monitoring is a vague term and means different things to different people, so in order to make sure we understand this idea, we would like to ask you to provide us a use case and desciption of what you would like to see in Spectrum Control and which gap this idea should really address in terms of the monitoring capabilities provided out of the box by SVS/Storwize.