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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

Implement SMTP Authenticated access for Operation Center

Currently in all Spectrum Protect versions, we can only connect to an open mail relay in order to send email alerts or reports via the operations center. However the new trend today is to have the mail servers located in the cloud and any access t...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

Allow editable threshold settings and client and/or type of client exceptions for security notifications

Please make the thresholds for Operations Center Security notifications an editable setting. We have hundreds of security notifications daily that are not being reviewed since we can't manage them. Also many are API clients, which would typically ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Allow more than 1450 characters into SQL statement used in reports section

Hello, Right now, we are limited to 1450 characters into an SQL statement when generating custom reports from Operation Center. This is an issue when the SQL statement is longer than that. I would like to have that limitation being removed. From t...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

Operation Center should have the option to use SMTP with authetication method

The Operation Center deployed in a production environment should have the option to user other SMTP methods to send reports. My client do not allow smtp wthout authentication in production environment.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

TLS Email Support

Today does IBM Storage Protect OC has support to email reports over email, but this hasn't been updated for a wild now and the supported protocol is a unsecure SMTP port 25 communcation and we can always create a SMTP tunnel to a Cloud SMTP Server...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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