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Version 7.1

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Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

User-based scheduling policy by SSM

Add a new scheduling policy to consider resources a user used and make it fair among users. We could call it user-based (fair share) scheduling policy. For example, for N users that has active sessions, each user can only get 1/N of total allocate...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

TS000930539:

"Consumer1 executing on a host(with special resource attribute) is not reclaimed and rescheduled on another host when Consumer2, requiring that resource, request allocation. Consumer 1 doesn't have any resource preference, so the expectation was t...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Symphony Client install on Windows Machine

Client Don't want to install symphony client msi package install on multiple windows hosts separately and it needs lot of effort to install on each machine and they have to engage Windows OSE's all the time. Is there a way to install package on wi...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Resolve callback thread handing issue on Symphony client 7.1.2

1. Our application MC farms occasionally experience hanging while the farm waits for task responses. 2. The Symphony stats shows all tasks are done, however, the Symphony client API doesn't callback our application. It is likely the Symphony call...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][CreditSuisse] - Add alternative way of configuring ego.conf parameters in SOAM API (C#, C++, other)

Make it possible to pass ego.conf settings as parameters in SoamFactory.Connect() method. Here is pseudo code demonstrating idea: class ConnectionDetails{ List EgoMasterList; UInt LimPort; UInt KdPort; string EgoClientTsParams; … …} SoamFactory.Co...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[RFE][SocGen] - Cloud - RESTful API for application management, workload monitoring, etc.

Open Restful API for Symphony management. CLI commands aren't efficient when it comes to automatize application creation/delation/modification without having a SSH/PSexec access to the grid which is not safe. More generally, Symphony should be mor...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Autosys Intergration

We are looking for a way to trigger execution of next batch in the grid, once grid utilization falls below 10%, for example.There could be countless other scenarios.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement for Symphony7.1 API

Currently Symphony7.1 API does not provide a way to give details of blocked host. With current function char* soam_AppAttrDetail::hostPidPairs. This function returns the hosts for failed SIMs, which may sometimes include some unblocked host in the...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration