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Version 7.2.1

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SD enhancement to stop denial of service attack

SD performance is significantly impacted and starts crawling when someone continuously keeps sending login request to symphony with wrong user id and password. We need to SD to handle this without any performance impact. SD should be able to recog...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 3 Delivered

Python 3.6.7 certified for Symphony 7.2.1.1

We need this for a POC we are producing Wes Cha running on Python 3.6.7 to determine which distributed processing method would be fit his needs. We are looking at the Symphony grid as well as Beacon's grid. We would need this up and running as soo...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Support for RHEL 7.7

Customer (MedioBanca) is planning to deploy Symphony 7.2 on a cluster of servers running RHEL 7.7 which, as of today, is not included among the supported platforms.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered

[Release][Matrix] Oracle 19C certified for Symphony

We are going to upgrade all our Oracle to 19C by Q2/2020. Please certify the DB for Symphony 7.2.1.1
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

SMC: "resubmitOnZeroResourcesTImeoutMinutes" to be applicable at cluster level

Objective:Given 3 clusters (2 primary cluster and 1 reserve cluster) and for a given application, we want to be able to do session level redirection such that: 1) Both Primary clusters are not scalable but Reserve cluster is2) The first ranked pri...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - bypass policy rules

We would like to grant some application to bypass our SMC rules for some specific reason. Of course this bypass should have some limitation to not comprise the sharing between all grids.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

Solaris compatibility

Hello, We need the support for Solaris in Symphony 7.2.1 SDK, so we can compile our clients the same as we did in version 6.1.1
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

[RFE][PIMCO] - ReclaimGracePeriod and Priority for Yield parent jobs should not be ignored for recursive jobs

Current case, for recursive application, say parent job with reclaimGraceperiod 1500 with priority 1000, child job with 100second with priority 1, however The slot that is yielded by parent and running child task got reclaimed in 100 seconds by SS...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered

Hostfactory optimization for long running jobs without history

when client submits long-run tasks, HF should consider all common cases within a boundary of 'history_expiry_time' so that HF accounts all metrics (# of running task, # of pending tasks and etc..) in order to provision/release cloud hosts precisel...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered

AWS instance termination is too slow

Currently it takes 11 minute to terminate 280 hosts with "Lazy" mode and 21 minutes for 246 with "immediate" mode
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered