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Version 7.3.2

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Adding version control mechanism for Symphony config files

Adding version control mechanism to Symphony config files for easy tracking and rolling back. The files should at least include: grid config files: ego.conf, ego.shared, ego.cluster, ConsumerTree.xml, ResourceGroups.xml. users,xml. etc application...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory , But While having executable permissions audit log files may not be ideal, this is the designed behavior of EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_P...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Spot Instance interruption notice support in HostFactory

AWS will send an interruption notice 2 mins before the Spot Instance is reclaimed. HostFactory currently does not pass the notice to Symphony cluster and application to handle the interruption. We will need this notice to optimize the workload for...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

EC2 Fleet support

In SPCS-I-906, we requested launch template support with EC2 Fleet. Given the time constraint at that time, the scope of the RFE changed to launch template support with Spot Fleet. Now with more requirements from our clients, consulted with AWS, w...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Clean up WEBGUI server cache and working directories automatically

Clean up WEBGUI server cache and working directories automatically
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Podman container for windows service instances on Linux

We are looking for a solution to run Windows applications podman containers on Linux compute hosts
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Running Symphony on EKS

Since Citi's use case is running whole symphony in container,, Citi to log a new RFE for entire symphony be deployed in AWS EKS and let Steve/Geoff know RFE#..
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Not under consideration

Submitting workload from 7.3.2 on prem to 7.2.1 cloud cluster

Submitting workload from 7.3.2 on prem to 7.2.1 cloud cluster, just want to get an estimation of how long this could be tested... will compare with our project plan to see if it is worth the effort to do so...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration