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IBM Spectrum Control

have Spectrum Control as an appliance (ova package)

The uprade process to upgrade Spectrum Control to a newer version is too complex and fails all the time. Please consider deploying it as an appliance. An OVA package provides a pre-configured, optimized environment, reducing setup time from hours ...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Increase in the number of components analyzed simultaneously

Hello Development team. I would like to suggest an improvement in the Spectrum Control. When some situation that needs a deeper analysis happens, like a performance problem, it is useful to see the behavior of the components. At this point, the Sp...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Planned for future release

Monitoring portset from Spectrum

We would like to be able to monitor port sets from Spectrum to view usage statistics for the ports within a port set, and, if possible, to generate graphs showing utilization rates, bandwidth, IOPS, and various other metrics.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration

Spectrum control to have Cyberark interfacing for automated password rotation (DB2ADMIN account)/Ability to enable MFA for user login to gui (Microsoft Authenticator/RSA)

This is to increase the security of the product and ensure compliance with company standards.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration

Storage Name not reflected in Spectrum control

Hello Team, We have installed the spectrum control (Any version), we added the storage in to the spectrum for performance monitoring purpose. For compliance issue we changed the storage device name but that changed name not reflecting in spectrum ...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Integration support for ARCOS/ARCON Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Spectrum Control tool

ICICI bank has 90+ IBM Storage arrays being managed by three IBM tools - Spectrum Control (TPC), Storage Insights (SI) and Copy Service manager (CSM). These should integrate with ARCOS for obtaining the password to access/work with storage arrays....
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

VMware VM I/O Performance data should be available

Today TPC/VSC offers agentless integration with VMware ESX, however no performance data, other than the SAN volumes or ports that the ESX server is using are recorded. I would like to see TPC record basic virtual machine I/O performance data for V...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration