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HostFactory provisioned CPU total limit

Currently, there is limit per provider and max instance per hour per requestor. We request to have total number of CPU limit at HostFactory and configurable. Say there is a parameter called HostFactory_CPU_limit set to 100. I have providerA, B, an...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1

Validate client on containers

As discused on case TS018079953, the clients are not validated to run in containers, which is a functionality we are aldready using in our clusters. It will be needed to support this functionality in order to have support for the problems we are f...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Needs more information

Cognos consuming separated database

It Should be interesting to make Cognos a possibility to consume a copy of the main database so it not conflicts with the openpages application that consumes the same database Therefore, large Cognos reports could not degrade the Openpages applica...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

Symphony jobs log retrieval enhanced mechanism

Whereas Symphony provides an easy way to retrieve its own cluster logs through its System Logs web interface, the same is not true for user jobs submitted to the cluster. Today, a given job’s log is generated and stored on the filesystem. A user m...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Functionality already exists

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

Hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slots to 1 when it falls between 0 and 1

When choosing percentOnDemand=10%, quite often we get 0 slot calculated on the ondemand server therefore there is no slot on the server and leave the task pending forever. We'd like to suggest that hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slot...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts.

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts. Such reports help business and technology team to study workload pattern, performance review of hardware assigned t...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

We need ability to update DB password using command line in non-interactive fashion. (Not interactive shell)

We need to update our database account password regularly and in turn we have to update password in database configuration file datasource.xml . This will be automated process in Wells Fargo and we need to be able to run dbconfig.sh command to upd...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted