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Spectrum Symphony

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EGO_MASTER_LIST supports DNS alias

The client would like to be able to specify alias DNS name instead of official hostname for EGO_MASTER_LIST in ego.conf. For example, there are below master, master candidate, management hosts in the cluster. The left side is their official host n...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] SOAM - Package - Remove obsolete/inconsistent SI packages from compute node (Epic32879)

Even if customer removed consumer, SI package corresponding to the consumer would be still remained on compute node. Symphony should be able to remove obsolete SI package from all compute nodes.There is an idea to remove obsolete packages.- Set fl...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[RFE][CommerzBank] - EGO API for User Management - REST API for User Add/Remove/Modify as the solution

Java API from 5.1 (UserAdmin) has been depreciated and there is no replacement EGO API in Symphony 6.1.1 which can manage user add/remove.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - Package - Run egosh/soamview on non cluster hosts

We would like to run tools such as soamview and egosh on hosts that are not members of the cluster in order to administer them remotely.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Request to certify Websphere v 22.0.0.9 for symphony 7.2.0.2

Since the current websphere version 21.0.0.9 is saging out in CITI , Requesting to certify Websphere v 22.0.0.9 for symphony 7.2.0.2
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Not under consideration

Parent-child not preserving loaded libraries in onCreateService with StandbyService

When using parent child with standbyServices, when parent yields, libraries are not preserved and need to be reloaded. This is due to Parent SI performing restart, so all tasks except one execute with regular execution time. But one task that is a...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration