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Version 7.2.1

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[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

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

[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

[Security][RFE][PIMCO] - INCLUDED_USERGROUP parameter works PAM

INCLUDED_USERGROUP parameter works as designed for AD security use case.There is no such functions designed in PAM. We request to add this function for PAM as well.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

HostFactory: ncores of slot_mapping supports fraction

Currently HF only support integer slot to ncores mapping We would like to have 1 slot to 0.5 ncores to fully utilize the resource of AWS instance
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

service package is limited to 2G in 7.2.1

one of our applications has issue to deploy the package due to over 2G large size. We can deploy on symphony 6.1.1 without any issue
almost 5 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

Spectrum Symphony v7.2.1.1. Host Factory support for tagging EC2 Instances with User Specified tags

We need Host Factory in Symphony v7.2.1.1 be able to support for AWS spot Instance, Instance Profiles and Tagging of User Data.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Symphony Spot Instance partial fulfillment

There is a cost concern for spot instance partial fulfillment . Say we request spot fleet with 500 hosts. It is only fulfilled 200 hosts, then we cancel the request. We still got charged for those 200 hosts even it is just a few minutes. Amazon te...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered