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[Workload Monitoring and Management] Show output from service start command

Currently SIM log shows generic error if service start commnd fails: The service startCmd command specified in the Application Profile terminated unexpectedly with exit code: 127 State : Exit. It doesn't much help to understand what was wrong on s...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

Enabling symbloc link of PA conf directory to shared directory

1. The JVM version we are currently using in PA 9.1.2.2 does not work well with s-link 2. With current PA design, PA data collection node does request a CONF directory on local FileSystem, there are some parameters are applied to local binaries, h...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Remark on PA webpage about lacking of data, when there is no workload on the grid.

This RFE is specific to Platform Analytics Product. As it didn't show up in product list We have selected Platform Symphony. Currently, when there is no workload on the grid, the Platform Analytics tables, and graphs shows only blank screen. Which...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] EGO - Harvesting - Configure VSH CPU and memory thresholds at per ESXi host level

Our environments has huge amount of VMware vClusters. Each vCluster contains dozens ESXi hosts. We plan to create 2 to 4 VMs on each ESXi hosts under VSH control. If the VSH threshold configuration only can be changed cross all hosts in a vCluster...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Logs - Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data (large project)

Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data between log filesa. ssm to simb. vemkd to pemc. master lim to slave limsd. ego services to vemkd and egosce. sessionid to taskid and the execution hosts of the tasks
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[RFE][Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Audit - Log OS User name in EGO Service Controller audit log

EGO Service Controller Audit logs the EGO user and not the OS account issuing egosh command. Additionally, the EGO user is incorrectly logged when the same OS user logs in on different terminals.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Matrix - Cloudera lastest version integration (CDH5.0)

SDMCC has ordered 70 PowerLinux box plus Symphony, GPFS to run big data analytics application, the application was developped at CDH5.0 (MRv2). Symphony MR to integrate with CDH can bring better performance, reliablity to SDMCC.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Security - Kerberos - Support Kerberos Library outside of default install location

Kerberos libraries are installed in a non starndard location (outside of /lib and /lib64). Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps except with VEMKD and PEM, which fail to start.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement] SOAM - OpenR - Support recursive scheduling with OpenR

Provide the mechanism for Parent Child or recursive scheduling in the openR integeration with Symphony.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Symphony product network connection logic and error handling

Symphony product network connection logic and error handling. Symphony internal communications, (like VEMK<->SSM, SD<->SSM, SSM<->SIM, SIM<->SI, etc), already have "error handling" logic for network problems. The connection...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration